Fort Wayne Sentinel, The Fort Wayne, Indiana Wednesday, June 14, 1916 Page 3

NEWS OF Fort WAYNE'S NEIGHBORS

KEYSTONE POSTMASTER DIES

William M. Baker, a Life-Long Resident of Wells County

Bluffton, Ind., June 14. -- William M. Baker, postmaster at Keystone, died Tuesday at his home. Death was due to cancer of the liver. Mr. Baker had been bedfast for the last six weeks and his death had been expected. He took a sudden change for the worse early Tuesday. His death brings much sadness in the community as he was well known and highly respected. Mr. Baker was a life-long resident of Wells County and was past the fiftieth mile stone at the time of his death. He received his early education in the common schools of Wells County, took a short college course, and then began teaching in the county schools. He taught for sixteen years and then took up the practice of law in Keystone. For a few years he assisted in the Keystone hardware store. He had been postmaster there for the last two years. The deceased was a member of the K. of P. lodge at Montpelier, and was keeper of records and seal of that lodge. He also belonged to the Red Men and Woodman lodges in Keystone and the B. P. O. Elks. Surviving are the wife and son.


CANNOT COLLECT TAXES NOW

Bluffton, Ind., June 14. -- It has been learned by County Auditor Clem T. Kain and County Treasurer J. A. McBride, as a result of a trip to Huntington, that Wells County will not be able, until after the first of next year, to collect the $35,000 back taxes due from the Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago railroad, which was bought at Huntington by Fred Dolph. The final transaction for the sale of the road will not be made before next year, if the purchase is ever completed. Treasurer McBride's term will expire January 1, and his successor will realize the 6 per cent fee for the collection of delinquent taxes.


BLUFFTON TEACHERS NAMED

Bluffton, Ind., June 14. -- Misses Martha Plessinger and Lela Nordyke were added to the teachers in the city schools for the next year's force at a meeting of the board of education. Much other business relative to the schools was transacted. Although there was much deliberation over a long list of candidates for the principalship of the high school, recently made vacant by the resignation of A. G. Morris, no one was elected to the position. There will be more investigation into some of the candidates.