Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1909 — Cass May Hold Local Option Election [ARTICLE]

Cass May Hold Local Option Election

The board of commissions of Cass county will meet next Monday and the county council is called to meet next Wednesday, at which time an appropriation will- be asked to defray the expensed of a county option is made, an election will be ordered to take place about the last week in March. The legislature will adjourn on March Bth, and as it does not seem likely that the county local option law will be repealed, an election cannot be avoided.—Logansport Pharos. Frank Dlttle, the horse thief who escaped from the Rensselaer jail while waiting to be tried for stealing horses around Kentland, seems to have renewed his old occupation after gaining his liberty, if the Dlttle referred to in the following is the same elusive Frank. The item was taken from Friday’s Chicago Journal, and reads: Mrs. Frank Dittle, 35 years old, wife of a convict serving seven years in Nebraska’s penitentiary for horse stealing, appealed to Capt O’Brien today for a home for her two boys, 6 and 3 years old. She is living in two furnished rooms at 137 Peoria street, but wished the children placed In an institution because she could not support them.