Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1904 — Proposed Drainage Canal, [ARTICLE]

Proposed Drainage Canal,

Starke County Republican: The proposition of diverting the testers of the Kankakeejthrough a canal into the Tippecanoe river is again 'receiving* the |of the government, oivil’jen* gineere, St&Lessrs. g Johnson “rand Hanna, werejhere Monday looking over county maps and looal engineers. It is quite likely that if the plan is pnt into execution the Kankikee will be tapped at the sooth end of English lake. The shortest line to the Tippecanoe river, a point in Franklin ownship, Pulaski county, is wenty miles in length, but it is irobable that the canal would be anstrnoted south and oonneoted with Monon oreek whioh die: charges its waters into the Tippecanoe six miles north of Montioello, White county. Between English lake and the mouth of Monon oreak the distance is about •thirty-five miles- As has been mentioned before in these columns, 'theobject of this oanal is twofold, to give the Kankakee valley Jbetter drainage and to. famish better water power on the Tippecanoe.

Rev J. W. Cain, of theJGrace M lE. church, st Hartford City, sprang a surprise on his congregation Sunday morning and as a result the >male members are thinking of extendino' him a vote of thanks and D __ . L_ probably more. When all were wiping the from their beaming countenances and "were having dreams of snow covered mountain peaks and oold baths ■•Cain gallantly came to their relief. JBe called for a vote f rom the ladies present asking if they had any objections to the gentlemen removing their coats. At once hundreds of hands were raised granting permis aion and in another second the jentle nen had almost to a man reieved hems-dves of the extra burten They listened to the sermon *itb r- newed interest. In the evening 'he coals were taken off as the rueuibe r a of the choir set a oommendabl* exa jple by leaving off their cats and vests. Tiul * (ho rr.nk3 of the old soldiers are rapidly thinning. Commissioner "Ware o, f i a.- r.en.ion bareau will say, in the foriu report that the total run-berof pensioners on the roll ca'l i- !e s than one million; about {Mil 543. "luring the month of Ma- . :•/ oi d ied and soon the monthly a i s will reaoh 6,000. If it we;' r the widows of old Soldiers th > i \ i list would sink with rapid.': .