Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1909 — Mayor James H. S. Ellis Is Now a Knight Templar. [ARTICLE]

Mayor James H. S. Ellis Is Now a Knight Templar.

Mayor James H. S. Ellis, accompanied by Willis went to Delphi Monday afternoon and that night the rank of Knight Templar was conferred on him by the Delphi commandery of the Masonic order. Mayor Ellis is the fifth member of the local lodge, now living, to take this rank, the others being, W. J. Imes, County Superintendent Lamson, Dr. W. W. Merrill and Alfred Peters. Efforts to look up some matters in Ft. Wayne public records developed the fact that the books are stored in a space above the haymow of the police They are merely piled one upon another and are uncovered from dust and dirt. They are not arranged' in order, either as to years or alphabetically, and it is stated that the condition of many of the volumes Is deplorable. The three-year-old child of Edward Piper, living near Somerset, swallowed eleven two-grain pills of acetanllid, which he found while playing. By a quick automobile run a physician arrived in time to save the child’s life.