Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1908 — FROM OVER INDIANA [ARTICLE]

FROM OVER INDIANA

Nearly 1,000 Purdue students comprising the members of the Purdue university sophomore and freshman classes clashed in the fifteenth annual class contest known as the “tank scrap.’’ After 45 minutes of terrific onslaught the sophomore class won. Louis H. Dunlap, a Franklin grocer who disappeared suddenly three weeks ago has been heard from. He is visiting friends in Arkansas and has written attorneys in Franklin to proceed with the settlement of his business affairs. He will locate in the west and hopes in time to settle all his financial obligations. Charles King, who for the last two years has been mussel digging in the Ohio river near Rockport, Ind., found a pearl valued at sl,ood. One of his fellow workmen found another for which he refused SSOO. Green Goodman, who runs a mussel camp on the Wabash rive near Mink Island, found a pearl and sold it to a pearl buyer for SI,OOO. it is 4 understood that the combination organized to build a brewery at , Tolleston has abandoned the scheme ! because of the war against the saloons. The site was selected some time ago near the Pannsy and Michigan Central tracks, and for a time blossomed as a good thing. Then came the killing frost In the shape of the petitions against the saloons and the scheme died. A war which Chicago high school pupils have been waging against the 1 board of education's ett inp ed ub litlon of secret societies and fraterni- ; ties was enlivened when the Frank G. Smith charged tbe parents with being too lenient and recommended the use of the barrel stave. “If parents side with pupils in the

defiance of school regulation,” he said, “how can we expect other than that our future citizens will become habitual defiers of the law?”