Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1908 — From the Mt. Ayr Pilot. [ARTICLE]

From the Mt. Ayr Pilot.

Brief mention was made last week regarding an invention by Palmer Wells, a foimer Mt. Ayr boy. It was reported recently that he sold this invention for $40,000. Jack Graves, a former resident ot this county who has for some time past been practicing law at Warsaw, Ind., was recently convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 60 days in jail and a fine of SIOO. W.’F. Banghman, former editor of the Pilot,- left town last Friday with his family and household goods for Hamlet, Ind., where, he has on a newspaper to be organized at place in the near future.

Jasper Wright has so for recovered from his recent illness that he came to town the other day and dropped into our office to tell us that he was as good as ever, would receive hogs any day you were ready to deliver them. Wm. Shindler and wife left last Tuesday for Nara Visa, New Mexico, where they will make their home in the future. They will locate near where Chas. Bringle is now located.