Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1903 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Items of Interest Oathered From All Parts of the State. The business men of Warsaw have lately organized an association and have adopted a constitution and bylaws. They are going after improvements in a systematic manner. Miss Ella Burgess, of Bourbon, has gone on a trip of 500 miles to meet and marry her sweetheart. She has’ gone to Chattanooga, and will marry Wijliam Raeer, a bottle blower. If was necessary that she secure the marriage license, since her home is in Blackford county, and she might have difficulty in getting a license at once in Tennessee. She did not care to take chances on the wedding being a failure after shfe reached that state. A. F. Norton, who bought the Lancaster general store at Converse, a short time ago, has disposed of the stock of cigars and tobacco. He says he has conscientious samples against the sale of tobacco. He expects to ran the store “as Christ would run it.” Mr. Norton will sell for cash, will pay his clerks at the elose of each day, and will noc deliver goods. Under no oiroumstances will the store be open on Sunday and it will dose every evening at 6 o’clock. Pearl Hosier, of Kokomo, was attacked by William Colvin and may die of his injuries. He went to Colvin’s home to call on Colvin’s sister, Mabel Colvin, and was greeted by a briok, which Colvin threw from the door, and which struck Hosier on the head. His skull was fractured, and physicians say he can not live. Hosier had been calling on his sweetheart for several years, and Sunday night Colvin told him that if he came hock again without a marriage license, he woald kill the suitor. When Hosier knocked at the door last night, Colvin shouted: “Got that license?” Hosier started to explain, bat the briok cat short his words.

It is reported that hog cholera has made its appearance in some localities in Fulton county. This disease has caused more loses in raising swine than anything else and is always dreaded. No sure cure or prevention has ever been found and about the only thing to do is to separate the affected from the healthy ones and maintain extreme cleanliness. Farmers in the oentral part of this state who have had to deal with this plague have been dipping hogs in the same manner that sheep are. The material used in the dip may be any of the solutions used in dipping sheep. This is not only a remedy tor cholera but other diseases and has proved efficacious in many cases. Caroline Rich, a widow at Elkhart, thought she needed a husband and married Wm. Barnes, a veteran of the civil war. Mrs. Rioh raised three hundred chickens and built all ot the coops for the fowls, yet she wanted something more. Her acquaintance with Mr. Barnes was short. The old fellow stayed with her awhile and then skipped. When we take into our thoughts that Mrs. Rich was worth $72,000 It seems as though the old man ought to have held the fort—but he didn’t. He would rather be alone than to have the widow and her money. A divorce will follow.