The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-21

WHITESTOWN-A commercial club has
been organized here for the commercial.
industrial and economic betterment of
Whitestown. While the town has enjoyed
a heathful growth during the past year, it
has been due to individual causes and not
to any concerted effort. The commercial
club will take leading part I'm agitating
for public improvements and first will move
in the interest of a proposed traction line
through the place.
RUSHVILLE.-The congregation of the
Main-street Christian Church on Sunday
unanimously called the Rev. w. w. Sniff of
Cleveland, to the pastorate. His labors be-
gin about Feb. 10. Andrew Grit
fin and his wife, of New Salem, Rush
county, celebrated their golden wedding on
Sunday. There were fifty-two guests pres
ent. Mr.. Griffin was born and reared in this
county and is a prominent farmer of Noble
township.
FORT WAYNE. = The Fort Wayne
Presbytery was in session Mon
day and accepted the resignation of the
has occupied the Lagrange charge. He
has accepted call to Burgettstown, Pa.
Henry Klug, a shoe merchant,
bilities of $3.50 and assets of $S75.
WABASH.-Workmen on Monday began
laying track on the western extension of
the Fort Wayne q Southwestern Traction
Company from Huntington to Wabash.
Nine miles of grading this has been
done and twenty-five carloads of steel rails
are ready to be laid. The cars will be run
ming into this city on May 1 from Fort
Wayne.
KOKOMO-Smallpox is again prevalent
in the western part of Howard county.
There are ten cases in two families in the
vicinity of Poplar Grove, developing from
a case brought from South Dakota. The
cases are mild and as the schools and
churches of that neighborhood have been
closed. it is believed the disease will not
spread farther
WHEATIAND.-Sev cases of small
have
vicinity recently, and on Friday last there
was one death. The situation has caused
considerable uneasiness and some excite
ment, but with a rigid enforcement of quar-
antlne regulations il is believed the disease
will be kept from spreading.
PETERSBURG-The township trustees
of Pike county held a meeting here Satur-
day and perfected a county organization.
w. j. Phillips made permanent chair
man and o. c. Shandy secretary. The OBJ
jeet is to systemattze the work of the town
ship trustees throughout the county.
MARION.-The American Cigar Com
pany. a branch of the American Tobacco
Company the trust, is preparing to locate
a big cigar factory, to employ about four
hundred people, somewhere i'm the Indiana
natural gas belt. 1t is said Marion prob
ably will be the lucky city.
BEDFORD.-The Lawrence county Re
publican committee met here on Saturday
and fixed the time for the county primaries
as Feb. Is. The city primaries will be held
on Feb. g. and both elections will be held
i'm strict conformity with the primary law
of 1901.
AURORA.-The citizens waterworks in
vestigation committee, which includes
Mayor Downey. Seth Stedman and H. p
Spaeth left on Monday morning to make
a weeks tour of the State to examine the
waterworks systems of the leading cities
CENTERVILLE.-On Wednesday and
Thursday Of this week the Wayne County
Farmers Institute will be held here The
State workers assigned 10 this institute
are II T.. Nowlan, of Dearborn county, and
Mrs. De Vnbiss. of Allen county.
LAPORTE.-About twenty-five of the 125
employees of the Laporte factory of the Re
lance Manufacturing Company, of Chicago
struck Monday because, so they claimed
they were not being paid sufficiently The
other employees may follow.
CRAWFORDSVILLE.- congregation
of Center Presbyterian Church has extend
ed a call 10 the Rev. +. w. Russell of
MarShaltOwn. la. lie is a graduate of the
University OF Nebraska and the Mccormick
Theological Seminary
RICHMOND.-The degree staff OF White
water Lodge of Odd Fellows, this city, has
accepted an invitation 10 exemDlify the
frst-deg-ee work at the dedca ton OF the
new temple at Marion. The date is not
yet known.
EVANSNILLE.-The resignation of Fred
erick Lauensten. Democratic member of
the City school Board. was handed to the
mayor on Monday night. His resignation
came In the nature OF a SURPRISE