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News of Our Neighbors

MAY SURRENDER CHARTER.
Keystone May Quit Soon Being a Town.

Keystone, Ind., Dec 7. -- Keystone may cease to be a town in a short time, according to a movement that is on there now to hold an election to give up the town charter, and quit paying town taxes. O. L. Fisher, the town clerk, was in Bluffton and caused to be printed a notice for a hearing and this hearing will later be followed by an election that will determine the future of the place. All but three of the taxpayers of the town are said to be in favor of giving up the corporation, but that to make the thing sure, it will take four-fifths of the voters' votes on the proposition to make it legal.

Keystone was made a town when the oil boom was on, when the place had three saloons and several stores. Now the taxpayers think they are paying for something that they are not getting.


DEPUTIES APPOINTED.

Bluffton, Ind., Dec. 7. -- Sheriff J. A. Johnston has appointed deputies in every precinct in Wells county, who will have the authority to arrest any person guilty of disloyal talk or action against the government.

Mrs. Martha Gardenour, age eighty-five, who lives in Uniondale, is said to be the oldest knitter of socks for soldiers in Wells county. Her patriotic services dates (sic) back to the civil war, when she, as a resident of Hagerstown, Mo. (i.e., Md.), fed union soldiers and helped them on their way. Now she sits by the hour knitting for a new generation and gets much pleasure out of her work.