The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-28
AROUND THE STATE.


The Avilla Touring mill, which had been
idle the past six months, is now in opera
ton and turning out an excellent quality
of flour Business is improving all over
the State, and no mistake about lt.-Angola
Magnet
The casting department of the American
plate glass works at Alexandria has been
in operation for some time, and 1T was an
nounced yesterday that both the grlnulhg
and polishing departments Will be started
with a full force next Wednesday-Ander-
son Herald.
Fifty new men will be put to work in the
car shops the first of next month. They
will build box cars, for which there is a
special call at present. Work in this de-
partment of the shops IS the best TINS sum-
mer that it has been for many years.
Huntington Herald.
Orders were issued to the master car
builder of the Pennsylvania to have all men
engaged in freight car repairs to work ten
hours per day. This will be good news 10
about two hundred men who are employed
in that department at the east shops
Fort Wayne Sentinel.
Harvest is now in full force, or will be
in few days. Most of the clover has been
cut and the rye is ripe and will be in the
shock in few days. Wheat has ripened
rapidly in the last few days and next week
this county is very heavy, and the farmers
say they have nothing to complain of in
this line.-Martinsville Republican.
Great schools of carp are going down
stream over the dams and rapids in the
Kankakee river, and the opinion prevails
that these fish are abandoning the upper
part of the river for some unknown reason.
1t probably is not true, but II 1t IS the
people along the Indiana part of the stream
will be glad of it, for the opinion prevails
that the carp are driving out other and a
great deal better fish.-Lap0rte Argus
We understand that the farmers of Ohio
township, and perhaps others, have
formed companies Of ten each for harvest
ing and threshing purposes. 1t requires
twenty hands to run a threShing machine,
so each of the ten must furnish two men. 1t
requires nine teams, so all but one of the
number must furnish a team at each point.
All employ the same machine, and when'it
begins ii must thresh all the ten crops be-
fore Neutrality-suspicious. Journal
Reports for the past few days concerning
the growing wheat crop have been of the
most promising nature. Men who are
known as CAREFUL and reliable observers
of such matters say there VIII be half
fPo f6 lens Is belief few WEEKS ago that
there would be practically no crop at all.
In fields where only a fair crop was eX-
large Where a very poor crop was eX-
pect6d there will be a fair yield, and many
fields that were thought tota! failures will
pay well for the cutting.-Mount Vernon
Republican.
Eighteen of the young people of Pendle-
ton have organized a town Improvement
society and the first work done by them
was to beautify the Big Four station grass
plot with three very handsome flower beds.
The flowers of many kinds and varieties,
were purchased of Florist Stuart, of Amber
son. The manual labor of the beds, such
as spading, etc. devolved upon the boy
members of the society, While the girls re-
uuested small subscriptions from the differ
ent business firms of the town and of in
dividuals. The society has another .,I meet l9s
discuss future operations.-Pendleton
Record.
The Ohio Indiana line. which is now be-
ing fed by couple of hundred wells in the
field northeast of Muncie, is daily growing,
and, like an octopus will soon have its
long feelers all over the field sucking out
it's life blood, unless some steps of a radical
nature are at once taken to check the
growth. The facts are that farmers have
years since the development of the field,
and have refused to plaster the farm over
with leases. They now realize that their
brother farmer across the road who has
leased his land is reaping all the harvest,
and at the same time the gas Is being
sucked from under him through his neigh
boris well.-Muncie News.
The Plain Dealer few days ago chron-
icled the fact that hundred tons of hay
were shipped out of Lagro on Tuesday
The day following sixty tons were shipped
from Lafontaine, and foreign buyers have
been securing the country purchasing hay
for shipment from other stations in the
county Frank Wilson, who made the
shipment from Lagro, has, since last fall,
paid out nearly $4,000 in Lagro, Liberty
Noble and Chester townships and has be-
tween three and four hundred cars yet to
ship All told, it is estimated that the hay
crop in Wabash county the last year has
brought the farmers of the county almost
SlCO. Goa great deal more than the wheat
crop yielded thenl.-Wabash Plain Dealer
The free factory pipe line extension is
completed and Kokomo has more gas to
give away The entire fve-mile extension
was laid with four-inch mains buried deep
in earth The terminus is now at a point
two and one-half miles east of Sycamore
i'm the best territory in the county The
improved and strengthened free pipe line
is now in prime condition to receive more
factories. and all Corners will be hooked
onto it, the only conditions being that they
must employ a number of men sommen-
surate with the amount of gas consumed
and that they pay their proportionate share
in keeping up the repairs and paying the
running expenses of maintaining the line
-Kokomo Tribune.
Standing in Avilla, pretty little village
In Noble county this State. is the house
erected the latter part OF last year for the
poor old people of Indiana by the Roman
Catholics of the State, under the charge of