Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1920 — ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US [ARTICLE]

ITEMS FROM AROUND ABOUT US

The Sawers Grain company of Chicago, an Illinois corporation, has applied to the secretary of state for admission to Indiana; capital represented in Indiana, >2,000. Eugene Chafin, sixty-eight, ’ Prohibition candidate for president in 1908 and 1912, died Tuesday at Long Beach, Cal., of burns received November 20, when his clothing caught fire from a gas heater. Thomas Taggart, defeated Democratic candidate for United States senator at the last election, spent >3,825 during his campaign, he stated in an expense account statement filed with the clerk of Marion county. The Elkhart county fair grounds, comprising fifty acres of land and many buildings, were sold at receiver’s sale Tuesday for >13,500, which is said to be about sufficient to pdy existing claims, but the stockholders will receive nothing. The grounds sold by the receiver have been in use since 1908. The Elkhart county fair was established in 1851, abandoned in 1893, revived ifa 1908, and again abandoned in 1919.