The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 13, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 October 1920 — Page 6

6*. he Mystery of Hartley House -Copyright by George H. Doran Co.

CHAPTER XlV—Continued. —ls—- — paused and looked at me as if to see whether he was reaching any hidden spring which if touched and sprung would open the secret. He did not believe I was truthful. “Mr. Sidney’? life is open, honorable and full of nothing but good for fifty years back,” Morgan continued, “We have investigated very thoroughly. But fifty years. Aback, Mr. Sidney disappears. evaporates;. There is no Mr. Sidney that can lie found. We find a young man of twenty, and nothing back of him. There we stop, ft is a blind alley. You Mme to nothing’ but a wall. That stopped investigation. “Now, I go a good deal by hunches — call it intuition, guessing, inspiration. It is not good detective method. I don’t claim it's good detective work.-" I never work on a hunch and neglect a rational method, but frequently when I do work on a ’bit of guessing we get results. A • “I’ve been working, around hjere, on a guess that was so wiild when it first started that it seemed too preposterous even for me. I’ll tell you that we are not investigating iMr. Sidney any more. We are looking for another person, and I believe Iwe are going to find him. Then we are going to' find some <>ne else. Doctor, I tell you, if you don't know it, as you say, it is the strangest case I ever have known. It is one of hate. Mind, I’m only guessing.” That touch was so impressive that betrayed an emotion. He saw it. “I had you there,” he said. “Mr. Morgan,” I said v “you will not believe me, and for that reason it is uselessfor me to say and keep on saying that I know of nothing here I could help you on. You suggested something to me just now, and you saw that you had done so. But that was because of a coincidence immaterial. to what you call a case,” “Very well.” said Morgan. “I did not expect to get ahead by coming here, but I want to be fair and reasonable. You do not know anything, but I am not allowed to talk t<f any one who might know.” “You have talked to Jed,” |I said. “You cannot reasonably expect to be allowed to annoy the ladies of the house or to Hutter the servants. Mr. Sidney is very 111 and . very weak. Even you would refrain from introducing your case to him if you saw him. If we seem to avoid your inquiries, it is unfortunate. XV e have nothing to avoid.” “I follow my hunch,” said Morgan, getting to his feet. - “If I am right, something will be revealed that even I could not compromise. I am afraid you must prepare, yourself for some publicity.” “I have told -you before that you must select your own course,” I replied. and Morgan took his leave, driving away through the snow. We had our Christmas eve in Mr. Sidney’s room. He was very feeble physically, and could be raised oh pillows in bed but nothing more. But he was the spirit of joviality. He had Jed sit in a great, armchair by his bed. and early in the evening he had a bottle of claret opened for him. Nothing would do but Mrs. Sidney and Isohel should have a bottle of Madeira, and I had a whisky toddy. A great punch-bowl was brought-in, and Jed mixed gallons of liquor and many spices in it. f' Four of the men servants cahieZn with a great log for the fire, and had Mr. Sidney Evidently Was Determined to Corrupt the Whole Household. large'cups of punch before they went otft Mr. Sidney evidently was determined to-corrupt thejwhole household. I’ll never be able to give an adequate idea of the joviality l of that Christmas eve in the sick-room. Mr. Sidney and Jed, had conspired for some months to make a festival. •Our dinner, served in Mr. Sidney’s room; brought a boar’s head, carried by a laughing maid. Wine was sent to the servants. Isobel found a pearl necklace in what had seemed to be a baked sweet potato. I found a gold watch in a box under a few leaves ofl lettuce. Mrs. Sidney found merely a note in a bunch of violets which was given her with ceremony. ' She read it and had difficulty to remain wholly composed. She arose and went to her husband, taking one of his hands and putting an arm about his shoulders. Then she kissed him and stood a rnpmept before the fire before she trusted herself to come back to the table. When the dinner was done and the

covers were removed, more wine was brought in. A large Christmas tree was lighted, and all the servants were called. Each found a valuable present in the tree; each had punch from the great bowl, and each, coming to shake Mr. Sidney’s hand, was given by Jed an envelope which, I learned afterward, contained a hundred-dollar bill. There was no constraint and no awkwardness such' as might mark such proceedings; the people of the house knew Mr. Sidney too well. One of the maids kissed him, and then we had them all doing it. I was fearful that the excitement would injure him, but he was placid, smiling and happy. ! When we were alone, we sat an hour by the fire, and then I dismissed every one peremptorily- 1 Jed, who had been about his duties, returned. The fire was tended. Another bottle of wine was ordered. I had my last look at Mr. Sidney alive as I stood by the door giving Jed his final instructions for the night. Jed sat in the armchair. All the lights except one by Jed’s chair had been extinguished. The Persian cat was stretched by Mr. Sidney’s side. The canaries were asleep perched on the head of his bed. The fire was glowing. “Good night, Mr. Sidney,” I said. “Good night, Jed. A pleasant evening.” “Good night, doctor,” said Mr. Sidney. “Just a minute, boy. Come here.” He reached out his hand. “Good-bye,” he said. CHAPTER XV. Mr. Sidney died between three and four o’clock Christmas morning. He passed so easily that Jed, sleeping in the lounge-chair beside him, did not know that death had gone through the chamber until an hour after the event. Jed awakened me. In the case of such an expected happening as tills, the perceptions start slowly. The fact that the benignity which so imperceptibly had dominated the house had ceased to exist took hours to assert itself. Jed was composed when he aroused me. Later, when the sun came up to make radiant all the white witchery the storm left, his sense of loss began to assert itself, and acute as was the grief in the house, none was deeper seated or more profound than that of the rascally old servant. Mrs. Sidney accepted the event with a serenity which I discovered afterward was born of a long-fixed resolution. For years her life had been a denial of her moral instincts—happy, in spite of that, because of her great devotion to the wonderful man ’she loved. The chapters which he dominated in her book were ended. With tenderness she laid them aside. Isohel did not permit herself indulgence in any weakness. What had happened was written in the contract of life. In later full knowledge of Isobel, I never ceased to admire the wonderful acceptivity with which she met her trials. Nothing came to her with catastrophic shock. She had reality within her vision, and she perceived. For myself I saw the end of a mode of life which, even when unhappy, had been ecstatically so. My reason for being in Hartley house lay dead in bed. -®f"Should look back, I knew, many timZs. as a struggling practitioner, possibly in poorer districts of the city, possibly in a small town, to the strange but beautiful time when I was at Hartley. This experience would be only an episode, remaining as the memory of a time when my life halted for a wonderful moment, satisfying, rich and joyful, and —having had this moment —went on in the drab fashion ordained for-it. An occasional kindly letter from Mrs. Sidney, or possibly from Isobel, might quicken-the memory. but I and this period would fade from their lives as it never could from mine. I should be packing a pillcase on late and unprofitable rounds in that soul-destroying routine with its ceaseless invasion of the intimate personal economics of uninteresting people, abnormally egoistic in the pain of a small or large disorder—the cheerless life of a small physician, serving his useful-purpose, I have no doubt, but how little serving his own! We got through Christmas day in a dazed fashion. The necessary offices for the dead compelled a routine which relieved the tension, although they contributed a dulled terror to the day—those terrible-, exacting practical details with which some one in the bereaved family must occupy himself. Mortuary details are jocose to the pessimist. I know no more figure than an undertaker, no more gigantic shaft of human egotism than a tombstone. Mr. Sidney, we found, had left brief but explicit directions for his burial. This, in the case of a man with life so well conceived, was strange, but his wishes, as we found them, were simple and startling. He was to be buried by the river, close to the pool which had been invested with the added charm of a ghost-story. His grave was to be marked by an unostentatious stone. The inscription was to be as he directed in a note in a sealed) enclosure to be opened at the time • Mrs. Sidney thought appropriate. It might be, he had written, that Mrs. Sidney would not want the stone erected during her life. Her wishes were to be consulted. When the grave was marked, if it ever was, the inscription was to be as he directed. Mrs. Sidney, acquainted with the terms of this extraordinary mortuary note, said that it was her wish to have the sealed envelope opened immediately and its instructions carried out. Christmas night had set in, and the

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place was a fairyland of glistening white. Far-off-church-bells sounded faintly across the snow. In the increasing cold, following the abatement of the storm, timbers in the old house creaked and snapped, and when one of the people of the house, on an outdoor chore, passed within earshot, the sound of footsteps was audible and the crisp crunching which, even as does a high wind, emphasizes the comfort of a secure and warm shelter. I was in the office when Mrs. Sidney’s instructions tr> open the sealed enclosure were received. I proceeded to do so. There was a brief note, as follows: I desire the marking on my gravestone, when it is put up, to read: ARTHUR DOBSON t Born May 22, 1840 Died — I was holding that document, staring at it, and grasping for elusive threads of perception, when Jed came in. He carried a manuscript in his hand. .It'd drew a chair up to the fire by my side. It was with a strange feeling of relief that I accepted the significance of the manuscript lie carried. “I’m a strange man, doctor,” he said byway of beginning. “You’d never understand me. I’m a strange man and I do strange things. I’m going to do one now. I’ve seemed conscienceless, haven't I?” . “I’ve never tried to conceal my opinion of you,” I said. “No, you haven’t. I like a candid man. That’s why I’ve always liked you, although I can’t say much for, your intelligence. But you’re honest. I’m not honest, but I’m intelligent. I’ve looked at my life as something to make the best of, and I haven’t been foolish about scruples. “I’ve managed my chances, and I have not allowed sentimentalism to stop me when something real was to be gained. It’s a real world, not a fanciful one. That’s the way I think.” “Half the people would be swinging on gallows,” I suggested, “if your amiable ideas prevailed generally.” “That’s copy-book stuff that’s so irritating,” he said. “The only thing extraordinary about me is my candor. My ideas do prevail, but the people who adopt them have less frankness. But what I want to say is that I’m going to do a strange thing. You’ll probably think it an act of contrition. It isn’t at all, but you’ll think it so. However, that’s unimportant. “You may pot know it, but I was very fond of Mr. Sidney. He was the best friend I ever had or ever shall have. ; “Now, I have guarded against acting impulsively or sentimentally. 1 know I am in fin acutely emotional condition. I have guarded against that. I am still, considering the world as a real world and myself as a real creature in it. And here’s the way I figure it. Mr. Sidney’s death has taught me that materialism is not enough. It is necessary, but there is something else. I’ve got to find another something else. That’s more important than any money or comforts —physical —that I can find. “Where is this something else to be found again if not right here in this family? 1 have determined to remain in your service after you marry Miss Sidney, and to take care of you and her and Mrs. Sidney. I couldn’t leave. The roots are too deep. I could be cut down but not dug up. I'm too old. So as a real creature in a real world I consult my real good, now as always, and I hope I do not seem to you to be acting sentimentally.” “You seem to me to be wholly crazy,” I said. “When‘you speak of Miss Sidney’s marriage to me, you are not only ironic; you are cruel. I should think that this particular day might make you at least considerate.” “You’re the blindest man I ever knew,” said Jed, “but I’m not dealing with what you think but with what I know. I told you once ytfur engagement was an unreal thing and that I did not consider it at all. Later I took that back. Now I can tell you that it is a very real thing, but it is different now with me. I have suffered a shock. Something's the matte*- with my world. It is not so bold or confident. “What I’m getting at is this.” He held up the manuscript. “This is Mr. Sidney’s diary. I have talked to Mrs. Sidney. She thinks, as I think, that you should read it. You’ll probably want to confirm what I say. You’ll have to ask Mrs. Sidney. I know you are itching to read it. I also know that if one of your scruples intervened, you’d let your itch go unscratched. But this is what I came in for, and here’s the manuscript. “You understand that in giving it to you I surrender unconditionally. I know it, but I want friends. The only one I had is dead; I must make other ones.” > ' \ The extraordinary fellow shook my hand, left the manuscript in my lap and went out, a more pathetic figure of sorrow than I ever expected to see in Jed. I went at once to Mrs. Sidney. Jed, I said, had left the diary with me. Would it serve any useful purpose for me to read it, or should it not go directly to the fire? “I think you should read it, John,” she said. “I told Jed so. He is very shrewd. His judgment and mipe In this case agree.” I went back to the office, put a log on the fire and sat down to read the diary. ’ : , CHAPTER XVI. I shall not pretend to give more than an idea of the manuscript I read there by the fire that night. It was narrative and reflection and contained

the story of the life of Arthur Dobson known to me heretofore as Mr. Sid ney. I shaft gfv’e extracts from it: > “A family is an odious impositior of cruel conventionalities upon individuals who, accepting conventions, however odious and cruel, arc helpless.: The bond of blood Is ope no animal (animals being rationalistic) tolerates, even recognizes, but it Is imposed upon human beings, who find that the most antagonistic natures must reconcile themselves to an arbitrary rule of life winch can come only to hld'eousness. “There were in our family two children, my brother Richard and myself. Our parents were the ordinary folk who marry and have a family. My father was an uncommunicative man. whether from a habit of silence or a lack of anything to say, 1 do not know. “My mother, as I recall her, was gentle but, I imagine, futile. I think if she had had a chance of establishing a personality my silent, glum father had destroyed it. “Richard was my elder by two years. My father was wealthy, very wealthy and Richard and I were not disciplinec

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“I Think You Should Read It, John,” She Said. as to money. My father was not penurious, but I never knew a man who obtained so little good of his money. He had no social instincts; he had no joviality. <; “He liked occasional ostentation —a petty form of vanity and egotism. I regarded him, or my memory of him, as wholly detestable —a sentiment which will offend Ihe sentimentally conventional, or the conventionally sentimentiil. I know he was the last man I would have chosen as a father. (TO BE CONTINUED.) EASY WAY TO CLEAN CLOCK Small Piece of Kerosene-Soaked Wool Placed in Case Will Gather Dust Particles. When a clock stops it is a mistake to suppose that it must at once be taken to the workshop for repairs. In most cases clocks cease running because of the accumulation of dust particles which clogs the bearings. It is not even needful to take the clock to pieces to clean it if a simple plan is followed which will be foiled .to work very well. Soak a piece of cotton wool in kerosene and place this .in a small saucer, a canister lid, or anything similar. Then put this in the case of the dock under the works. Close up, and at the end of 24 hours, examine the cotton wool. It will be found to be covered with black specks; these are the dust particles brought down by the fumes of the kerosene. Wilul the clock up and it will start away again. Where the works of the clock are in an inclosed case a few drops of kerosene should be poured through the small hole which is present in the metal covering. Turn the clock about a while so that the kerosene is distributed and after an interval it is extremely likely that the works will commence their normal operations again.—Scientific American. Learn the Art of Life. Life is so full of beautiful stories that it iS inconceivable that there should be any need of fiction or any other form of art. Life itself is an art and requires artists to live it. There are few of these and that may account for written art. People who can live on the plane of their agreements and avoid the plane of their antipathies make life an art. There was cobbler friend of ours, poor, honest, witty, a philosopher and withal handsome. He had a wonderfully gifted, beautiful sister and she married a forceful “plute,” who was devoted to her and whom she loved as truly as she loved her brother, the shoemaker. The shoemaker was a leader in a radical reform movement; the plute was the leader of the opposition. The shoemaker disdained any sort of financial help from his broth-er-in-law, but being an old bachelor, lived in the plutels house, sharing a happy family life. There was never a discordant word uttered, because these three tacitly avoided topics on which they did not agree. They knew the art of life—Chicago News. Birds That Burrow. Persons are not accustomed to think of birds as burrowing animals, but the puffin answers to that description. It is a chunky little fowl, less than a foot high, with a large and powerful beak. For a home it scratches a hole in the ground sometimes as much as four feet deep. To capture a puffin one must go digging, it is rather a job; and, inasmuch as the bird bites and claws fiercely, one is likely t» suffer in the process. Thus the. cre» ture has maintained its numbers oh many a lonely rockery, where other species of wild fowl have been killed off and exterminated. Look Out for the Sharp Turn. The long lane will turn some day. The main thing is to keep the horses going steady and watch out that it doesn’t turn too short—Arkansas Thomas Cat

Hoosier State Happenings

Seymour.—Three weeks of favorable weather will result in the biggest corn crop in the history of Jackson county, according to farmers and buyers who have made a survey of crop conditions. The acreage is larger than ever before, they say. Much of tIA: early planted corn on the sand land is already out of frost danger. However, hundreds of acres which w ere planted late will be damaged by frost before October 10. Plowing for wheat is well under way, and a few fields have already been seeded. Most of the sowing, however, will be done after October 1. New Albany.—The caterpillar pest is claimed to be the worst at New Albany this season than for several years, and considerable damage is being done to hedges and shrubbery, which are stripped of their leaves, only the bare stalks remaining. Cottonwood trees appear to have been favorite breeding places for the pest. Fronts of many houses are covered by the caterpillars as they crawl about seeking winter quarters. The sale of hand sprayers has been unusually heavy this fall. Evansville.—Evansville flour mills report they are getting practically no wheat from the farmers in the pocket pounties. Mills are offering $2.50 a bushel for the grain, but the farmers continue to hold it for $3.00 a bushel. report they are getting plenty of grain shipped from large grain centers. Farmers report that much of the corn on the hilly ground has been made and will be in no danger of the frost. Shelbyville.—Mrs. Caroline Oakley, sixty-seven years old, a prominent member of women’s lodge organizations in Shelbyville and in the state circles, Was found dead at the home of her daughter there. Heart trouble caused her death. She had held state offices in the degree of Pocohontas, Woman’s Relief corps, Daughters of Rebekah and Court of Honor. Valparaiso.—Farmers of Liberty, Westchester, Pine and Jackson townships, Porter county, have sold two cars of wheat and one car of rye through the Farmers’ association, obtaining $2.52 a bushel for w-heat and $1.85 for rye. The farmers will receive cash two days of shipment less two cents a bushel for handling. South Bend. —With the sale of $500,000 worth of bonds for the schools of South Bend made, the board of trustees is now going ahead with the building plan, which eventually provides fqr an expenditure of $3,000,000. The first building to be erected will cost $750,000, will have 46 rooms and will be in the Polish district. Indianapolis.—Warning to be on , the lookout for anthrax in Indiana because of the shipment to Indianapolis of .shaving brushes believed to be contaminated with the deadly disease has been received by Dr. John N. Hurty, .secretary of the state board of health, from the department of public health, Springfield, 111. Indianapolis.—William A. Ketcham of Indianapolis was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the closing business session of |tfie fifty-fourth annual encampment in Indianapolis. The selection of the city for the next encampment was left to the national council of administration. ' Bloomington,—William Tomey, who shot and killed Carl McGowan a few Weeks ago in the north part of Monroe icounty, was acquitted of murder by a jury in the Monroe circuit court, which 'was out only 20 minutes and took only one ballot. Tomey pleaded self-de-fense. He had been at liberty on bond. Hartford City.—The tomato crop in Blackford county is the largest in years, and as a consequence the plant of the Thompson-Webe'r Canning company at Hartford, which receives the greater part of the product, is working night and day to keep pace with the raw material received. English.—Suits for damages aggregating $36,110 have been filed in the 'Crawford circuit court at English against the Leavenworth State bank by 29 persons, who lost securities in ithe robbery of the safety deposit boxes in the vault of the institution the night of December 3, 1918. Jasper.: —The Dubois Country Motor club has been organized at Jasper by automobile owners and will associate with the Hoosier State Automobile association. The club was organized with a membership of 28. Muncie. —Muncie canning companies .predict the biggest tomato pack in years, unless there should come an early, blighting frost. Clinton. —Clinton’s city council has lowered the civil city’s tax rate for next year from 49 cents on SIOO to 47% cents. Seymour. —A number of golfers of this city and Columbus are laying plans for the organization of a country club, to be located between the two cities. Golf enthusiasts are back of the proposition, and it is planned to have one of the best links in the state as a drawing card for the country club. Wabash. —Unless conditions take a sudden turn for the better the coal situation this winter will be unusually serious, according to a report submitted to the Chamber of Commerce by the coal investigating committee. Indianapolis.—Jesse E. Eschbach, chairman of the special state fuel and food commission, sent a telegram to the Interstate commerce commission asking that railroads be permitted to send coal cars to wagon mines in order to relieve the coal shortage in Indiana. The request was made after Mr. Eschbach had been informed that the municipal light and water plant of Oxford faced shutdown on account of Inability to get coal. Goshen. —Drought and heat. which prevailed most of the summer, ruining crops, are again causing damage. ‘

Indianapolis.—State officials are considering increasing the 18-cent total of state tax levies to possibly 22 cents on each SIOO of taxables in Indiana. Two cents of the 4-cent increase may be added to the benevolent institutions levy of 3.9 cents which maintains the ■state penal tind charitable institutions; 1 cent may go to the educational instlttiflon’s levy-of 2.8 cents which maintains Indlhnft university, Purdue university and the State Normal school; 4-10 of a cent may. be added *o the state tuition fund hwy of 5.2 cents which principally maintains the pul>11c schools and 6-10 of a cent will be for tlie soldier memorial which the last special session of the legislature provided should be erected. The state general fulfil levy of 2 cents, which provides money for state appropriations and general state purposes, the state vocational fund levy of 2-10 of a cent which provides money principally for vocational education in the public schools and the state highway fund levy of 2.9 cents probably will not be changed. The plan is imitative but the officials are working on it a| a basis. Columbus. —The price of new corn will open op the market here at 60 to 65 cents a bushel, according to dealers. They base their estimate on the general lowering in prices of other commodities, the large crop throughout the country and the prices at which corn has opened in previous years. The opening price last year was $1 and the previous year sl.lO a bushel. The crop of Bartholomew county is unusually large, it is thought, 40 bushels to the acre. The county has approximately 60,000 acres in corn, and it is estimated the total yield will be 2,500,000 bushels. The late warm weather, farmers say, has placed thq corn crop beyond damage of frost. The present price of old corn is $1 a bushel, with little being sold, and much unmarketed. Crawfordsville.—Montgomery county farmers intend to take part in the inspection trip now being planned for the farm organizations of the Fifth district. The tour which will start about October 16 will inchfde visits to the experimental stations at the best educational institutions in the central states. Places-included in the trip are Purdue, Chicago, University of Wisconsin, St. Paul, Minn. : Ames. la., and Champaign, 111. Prof. G. I. Christie of Purdue will be one of the leaders of the tour. The trip will be made on a special train of three Pullman cars and a diner. Jeffersonville.^—Co-operation is being developed to a high degree among the farmers of Clark county, forced by shortage of labor. The plan is for a group of farmers to form a person'hl labor pool with such help as they can get and work the crops of the various members in turn. The plan is said to be working well and much more work is accomplished and in more satisfactory way than if each farmer tried to handle his own work alone. Crawfordsville —Prize English Spotted Poland Chinas brought $46,999 at the biggest hog sale ever held in Crawfordsville. The prize swine in the sale were from several states and were owned by John Wilt of Hillsboro, John Bock of Kempton, and Charles Taylor of Whatcher, Ta. The sale prices ranged from SIOO to $5,000. Goshen. —An average of 288 bushels of potatoes an acre was raised by a Goshen farmer, following an experiment with irrigation principles. The plan of installing a pumping plant and taking water from the river at the rate of 70 gallons a minute, was used by the grower after eight years of losses through long droughts. Shoals.—Apple picking has begun in the Shoals orchards. The Grimes Golden variety is especially good. The corn erpp is maturing rapidly and will be unusually heavy and good. Peaches are about gone. There are only a few orchards of White Heath clings yet to market. Evansville. —Five cases of pellagra have been reported in Williamson county, Illinois, a few miles west of Evansville, three men and two women being affected. Mrs. Anna Baker of Herrin, died of the disease. Dr. C. S. Dehl, state specialist on communicable diseases is investigating. Columbus, O. —A new world’s record for three-year-old pacing colts was made here when Frisco June, owned by Paul Kuhn of Terre Haute. Ind., and driven by Will Fleming, traveled the third heat of the Horse Review futurity for three-year-old pacers, in 2:03%.* Valparaiso.—John McFarland of Chicago was killed when two detectives of the Michigan” Central railroad approached his automobile and he opened fire with a revolver, thinking they were bandits. South Bend.—Two armed bandits tn a roadster automobile held up a screened United States mail truck here and escaped with mall, the value of which is put by J. N. Hunter, postmaster, at from $5,000 to $20,000. Franklin.—The J. W. Judah sale, held east of this city, netted over $6,000. Several milch cows brought $l6O to $l7O, and sheep averaged sl2 a head. *A pair of mares brought $525, and bay s2l a ton. \ Salem.— Military funeral services for Miss Blanch Colter of Livonia, Washington county, a Red Cross nurse, who died while in hospital service in France and whose body was brought to Livonia for burial, were held recently. The services were in charge of the Cecil Grimes post of the American Legion. South Bend.—The St. Joseph County Religious institute, organized by leading churchmen for the purpose of instructing children and adults in religion, has been opened in South Bend with a full staff of instructors. Vincennes.— Pastors for churches in scores of Hoosier cities and towns were announced at the closing session of the 1920 meeting of the Indiana conference of the. Methodist Episcopal church here. The conference has eight districts, taking in practically all of the state south of Indianapolis. Lafayette.—Fire destroyed ten carloads of merchandise valued at more than $75,000 in a freight wreck on the Monon railroad at Lee, a small station north of Lafayttte. The merchandise destroyed Included flour, feed, tractors and lumber.

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