Fort Wayne Sentinel, The Fort Wayne, Indiana Thursday, March 20, 1902 Page (6 or 8?)

IN NORTHERN Indiana (selected news items)

The Bluffton high school has withdrawn from the state oratorical contest.

Bly postoffice, in Wells county, has been discontinued by order of the postoffice department.

Establishment of rural free delivery routes in Wells county has so increased the business of the Bluffton postoffice that larger quarters must be secured.

George Jones, a well known Wells county farmer, is confined in the jail at Bluffton, a raving maniac. Intense religious thought has dethroned his mind. He gave the officers a desperate fight when they went to his home to take him into custody.

The forewoman of the Bluffton mitten factory has had trouble with the 125 girls employed there because they rush from the factory when the fire bell rings. Twenty-five girls followed the crowed to fire the other day and were laid off two days from work as a result.

Judge Vaughn, of the Wells circuit court, has made an order declaring null and void an order made a year ago by which Majorie (sic) Rumrill, a five-year-old girl, was adopted by F. M. Thurber and wife, of Ossian. The girl has proved intractable and the Thurbers repented of their kind action and asked to have the adoption annulled. Judge Vaughn did this and it is thought to be the only instance of the kind on record in Indiana courts.