Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1920 — ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

A bill creating an Indiana coal commission of three members, with power to fix coal prices, to take over and operate mines and to determine priority of shipments was passed by the house Saturday under suspension of the rules. The vote was 68 to 8. Charles Watkins, age 19, son of Mrs. Ed Watkins of Morocco, was drowned late Friday afternoon while swimming in Pine creek near Attica. Albert Watkins, a brother, and Charles Mickles, a cousin, were in the water at the same time, but neither were able to save him. At a school election held in Parish Grove township Tuesday the proposition to Issue bonds to the amount of to erect a new consolidated school building at Freeland Park was defeated by eight votes. Two hundred fifty-six votes were cast, 124 for and 132 against the bond issue.—Benton Review. Judgment for $20,000 is asked in a bill of complaint filed in federal court at Indianapolis Saturday by George Schafer, a Howard county farmer, against the Ft. Wayne Tire and Rubber Manufacturing company. The plaintiff alleges that he was induced to buy 1,300 shares of stock for >15,250, which he later found to be worthless. Miss Nell Heffner, a prominent society young woman of Washington, Ind., who has been making her home in Qpnvllle, 111., with an uncle, submitted to another surgical operation Saturday. This is the twenty-second time within the past few years that Miss Heffner has been under anesthesia. Although still a young woman, Her hair has turned white from the experiences with surgeons. Prince Joachim, youngest son of the former Kaiser Wilhelm, committed ' suicide at Pottsdam Sunday by shooting himself. He is said to have been in financial straits and had been suffering from mental depression. The prince was married in 1916, but was recently divorced. He was one of the kaiser’s sons who got near enough to the fight-

ing to get wounded, in 1916. age was 30 years.