The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-11-08
UP AND DOWN IN
INDIANA
OLD RESIDENT DIE

OLD RESIDENT DIES.
Elisha Hirst, So years old, a pioneer
of Richmond. where he was engaged in
the jewelry business for more than
twenty years, died suddenly Sunday.
He had been in poo health.
FIND BABY GIRL DEAD.
The police are investigating the ms
terry of the finding of the body of a
girl about one month old at the mouth
of the Green branch sewer in White
River near Anderson late yesterday
afternoon. The body, which was poor
ly clad, was found by fishermen when
a hook became %entangled in the child's
clothing. The body is being held in a
morgue pending an investigation.
WOMAN DESERTS HUSBAND.
Lured from her husband and young
child; giving up all her property and
casting her fortunes with another, Mrs.
Erwin Snodgrass, wife of a prominent
Muncie grocer. suddenly left the city
last week and her whereabouts is un-
known?. The man in the case is said
to be Homer Atkinson, a sweetheart of
her early childhood.
PREACHER RUNS FOR OFFICE.
The Rev. Frank L. Davis, Prohibi-
ton candidate for joint representative
of Carroll. Howard and Miami Counties,
Flora. Ind, has organized an unique
campaign. The Rev. Mr.. Davis has
been a preacher in the Christian
church in Kokomo for seventeen years,
is a lifelong Prohibitiosist and says
he intends to fight the liquor interests
TO the end and wants his office for tina
purpose.
FIND JAW OF MAsToDON.
While digging gravel IN the Perry
Miller pit near Elwood this morning
workmen unearthed a large section of
the jawbone of a m~astodon with teeth
firmly set in the bone. No other trace
of a mastodon has ever been found in
that locality.
STALEBREAD SAVES LIFE.
Stale bread crusts stood John S.
Crump. a wealthy resident of Columbus
in a good stead today and he believes
saved his life. While at dinner a fish
bone became lodged in his throat and
fearing it would kill him before a ply
stefan could arrive he restored to a
home remedy, of which he had Heard.
He chewed some stale bread crusts n
in swallowing them they dislodged the
fish bone.
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The educational butter scoring held
at the indians state Fair Grounds at
indianapolis in September completed a
series of six ~bimonthly scorings con-
Quoted by the dairy department of the
Purdue Experiment Station. The num-
Der of entries scored and tested for
moisture during the year was 204.
Seventy-fve creameries sent butter
one or more times. This is about one-
third OF the cremeries in the state.
FALLS FRoS a TRAIN.
The body of Freeman Dagget of Ko-
komo, mutilated almost beyond recog-
nition. was found by a freight train
crew early this morning IN the Penn
s~ylvania Railroad tracks at Lincoln.
Daggett had been in Logansport Sat
urday afternoon, and the authorities
believe he fell from the Pennsylvania
passenger train while en- route home
Saturday night.
DOZEN HURT IN WRECK.
Early yesterday e~ast-bound passenger
train No. 2 sideswiped w~est-bound pass
enger train No. 3 on the Wabash. Rail
road at Westpoint, ten miles west OF
Lafayette. About a dozen persons were
injured, but none of them seriously
Conductor George Martin of the east
bound train sustained painful bruises
about the body.
INFANT PARALYSIS CLAIMS ONE
Marie Rosanna Myers, youngest
daughter of Supreme Judge Quincy A
Myers, died in L~ogansport YESTERDAY
afternoon at 2 o'clock of infantilt
paralysis. The victim was one of tn,
popular young society girls of the city
and had been i'll only since last Tues
day. In accordance with the suggestion
of the health authorities and attendins
phsician the funeral will be private.
Is BACK.
John L. Grinths. United States con
sui to Liverpool, England. arrived il
! indianapolis yesterday morning and h,