Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 5, DeMotte, Jasper County, 15 June 1933 — INDIANA NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS

Indiana, one of the driest of the dry states and one of the greatest contributors of the Anti-Saloon league in days gone by, voted to ratify repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. Incomplete and unofficial returns showed liberals will control at least 248 delegates out of a possible 329 at the state convention June 26. Drys had captured 76 delegates. Only 165 votes are needed to ratify. The liberals had an advantage in the system of apportioning delegates. One delegate was chosen for each 10,000 population. This gave the edge to the large cities of the state, which favored repeal by a much greater margin than the rural sections. The popular vote, on the basis of the incomplete returns, went more than 2 to 1 to abolish prohibition. Five hundred and twenty-eight boys and girls have enrolled for 4-H club work in Bartholomew county. Henry Richart, age nineteen, son of Peter Richart, drowned in White river near Seymour. Dorothy Ellison, five, was killed in sport when struck by a truck driven by Samuel Netter, superintendent of the county infirmary. Elza Moore, age seventy-three, retired farmer and prominent Bedford citizen, died at his home following a stroke. Missing almost a week, Albert Bumbaugh, seventy-five, of Warsaw, was found dead in a woodshed at the home of his son, Judson Bumbaugh. More than 1,000 firemen of 44 departments in Northern Indiana Industrial and Volunteer Firemen’s association held a convention in Bluffton. Diplomas were presented to 57 graduates and honorary degrees were conferred on two distinguished alumni of the college at the ninety-fifth annual commencement of Wabash college. After 64 years of mortgage payment worries, Marion county taxpayers hold unincumbered ownership of the county courthouse--huge structure of aged stone and mortar, over-size corridors, elaborate moldings and fantastic deco-rations--at a total cost of $4,258,174. Charles A. Grossart, county auditor, paid the final $40,000 installment on the bond issue. An expenditure of $18,000,000 for flood control and improvement of the Wabash river in Indiana has been recommended by Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of army engineers. The money, according to present plans, will come from the $3,300,000,000 bond issue proposed for public works under the pending industry control and public works bill. George Timko of Brazil, Catholic parochial school pupil, has received a medal from an oil company for rescuing a girl from in front of a speeding automobile. Timko was serving as a school patrol traffic officer when the girl, running backward, got in the path of the automobile. He ran in front of the machine and dragged her out of the way. In accordance with the best traditions of an academy with an enviable past as the unofficial West Point of the Middle West and a happy, successful present Culver Military academy’s annual five-day graduating exercises came to a close with the final regimental parade, award of commissions to cadet officers and of military honors, and the award of diplomas of graduation to 156 students. A new unit to tin mills of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company at Indiana Harbor will be constructed and ready for operation in the fall. Contracts have been awarded to the United Engineering and Foundry company for a 42-inch four high-roll-driv-en cold mill. The unit will expand producing facilities 25 per cent The will of Lewis Postel of Muncie bequeathed $20,000 to Miss Mary Gertrude Vining, age twenty-five, explaining the gift was “compensation” for “humiliation, notoriety and inconvenience suffered by the young woman” when Postel’s wife named her as corespondent in a divorce suit several years ago. Una Merrick, age fifty, appeared at the home of Charles Goebel, assistant chief of police of Shelbyyille, and asked to be placed in Shelby county jail. Merrick was accommodated. He told Goebel he had been intoxicated 16 days and that unless he was arrested and placed in jail he would continue to drink. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoffman, who live on a farm near Rochester, have received a letter and gift handkerchief from President Franklin Roosevelt. Several weeks ago a son was born to the Hoffman's and they named him Franklin Delano Hoffman, in honor of President. President Roosevelt said he was sure the baby would grow to be a useful citizen. Alumni of the Indiana State School for the Blind re-elected Howard Sellers, Huntington, president at a reunion at the school. Paul Breeding was chosen vice president; Miss Pearl McGibbons. recording secretary; Miss Nellie Comer, financial secretary, and Frank Williams, treasurer. All officers are residents of Indianapolis except Sellers. Jacob A. Conrey, age seventy-nine, pioneer in the furniture manufacturing business in Shelbyville, is dead at his home. He was a son of D. L. Conrey, who opened the first furniture manufacturing plant in the city.