Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

Henry G. Sponael, an Indianapolis baker, found a unique way of making his wife remember her fortythird birthday anniversary. At a surprise party, given in her honor, his present to her took the form of forty-three pounds of pennies. Then A. prize was offered to the person guessing nearest the value of the pennies. Several guessed very near, the amount being $58.75. = * = It costs six months in jail and $lO to break. *a woman’s jaw in Muncie. This price was fixed by City Judge Frank Gass when he meted out that penalty to Ted White. White struck his sweatheart, Maude - Bass, and broke her jawbone. Because she was so bandaged she could not speak, Miss Bass was unable to appear in court to testify against White, hut the court sentenced Mm anyway. ~ The twenty-second annual meeting of the Carroll County Soldiers and Sailers’ Picnic association will he held in the court _ house yard in Delphi Thursday, September 10th. A feature will be an old-fashioned army dinner, consisting of bean soup, hard-tack and sowbelly and coffee. The meal will be prepared by an old army cook, in army style, and will be free to all who desire to partake of the same. While the. management of the TriLake resort, near Columbia City, were running over the expense column Saturday, they discoverd they had paid out $22 this season to the boys of the town to supply them with fish worms. This is much more of an industry than many would expect One lad that was onto the job managed to make $1.25 in one day, and says he hopes for the season to be ■ a long one.

Postoffice Inspector A. R. Burr, of Fort Wayne, was summoned to Goshen by the police to take charge of a stranger giving the name of Charles Childs and his residence as Pittsburg. He was arrested after he had attempted to sell a supply of stamps to Mayor Kohler at a discount. When searched many stamps of high denominations were found on the man, In addition to thirty fountain pens and twenty razors. During a big rain storm last week Joseph Chizum, a farmer south of Morocco, was In the house looking out of the window at a herd of twenty-two steers in a nearby pasture when suddenly the entire herd dropped to thb ground and lay as if dead. Mr. Chizum was calculating as to the cost of the stroke of lightning when the steers began to show signs of life, and in a few seconds all were on their feet again.

An official report has been received by W. H. F. Parry of Gary that the proposed union station to be built by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and the Baltimore & Ohio railroads at that place is an assured fact and construction on the station will begin at once. The structure is to be built of brick and concrete or terracotta and will cost $500,000. The union station will be one of the finest In the state.

James Zion, the apple king of Clarkshill, the man who makes big red apples grow where little ones used to grow, Is said now to be the most likely candidate for the nomination for governor by the independence party. C. G. Conn, of Elkhart, seems to have dropped out of the race, if he ever was in it. R M. Isherwood, one of the Hearst party leaders in Indiana, says that Zion will probably be nominated.

Mrs. W. F. Smith, a colored woman, who runs a saloon on Broadway at Gary is without her neat little roll of s6oo' in cash, which she had been saving up for some time. She left the saloon for a short time, and when she returned she found that her bartender, George Brooks, had broken into a trunk in which the money had been placed and skipped* out with It. The Gary police were notified, but no trace of the thief has been found.

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