Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilupaphlc Ruperts From Many Parts of Iho Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* In th* Nearby Cltle* and' Towne —Matter* of Minor Mention from Many Lo«a|ltl**. ■WMMWMMM*** TU*MULTY DECLINES POST Prefer* Law Practice to Plac* on Custom* Appeal Bench. Washington, Dec. 18. —Joaeph P. Tumulty, aecretary to President Wilson. announced that he has declined the appointment of chief juatlcj of the court of custom* appeal, which had been offered him by the president. and that he would begin the practice of law In Washington after March 4. Mr. Tumulty said he had no doubt of hi* confirmation by the senate, as he “bad received assurance* from leading Republican* that there would be no impediment placed in the way of IL”