The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-26
GENERAL INDIANA NEWS
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
ALL OVER HOOsIERDOM.
Rochester DecOrates Its Streets-On
Activity at PaoIi-Bids ON school
Supplies-Big Yield of Wheat.

TERRE HAUTE.-The City School Board
on Friday received bids for school desks
is the trust. was the lowest bidder. its bid
being % per cent lower than last year.
Then the four other bidders Of last night
ceived- Two members of the School Board
reported that the agent of the trust had
called on them and asked IL the purchase
he wanted to get on the inside. The
total tax assessment for Vigo county Is
SS3. SS9.3 which is So. go more than in
provements was last fixed. The number of
taxable polls is 1883.
CONNERSVILLE-Th recently organ
lied local company of Indiana National
Guards has completed arrangements to at
command OF Capt. Frederick J. Barrows
will leave at 10:17 Sunday morning
1t has been decided by the committee in
H. II and IL. Col. James Z. Roberts the
donor, Governor Durbin and Senator Bev-
eridge probably will be present. The three
days will be devoted to oratory parades
and various kinds of amusements.
CANNELTON.-Searc is being made in
the Ohio river near this place for barge
OF steel rails, which was sunk last winter
by the towboat j. b. Williams. AT the time
in a dense fog and struck the bank about
four miles above the place. Eight boats
were lost five containing coal and three
steel rails. All but one of the boats have
been recovered barge of steel rails. Pro-
fessional divers are searching for it. The
barge, with its contents, is valued at $4,000.
ROCHESTER-At a meeting of business
men held at the Town Hall, arrangements
were made for the decoration of nine
squares of the city with electric lights dur
ing the weeks of the Red Mems carnival
and the Eighth Regiment u. r. K. p. en-
campment, from Aug. 12 to 10. inclusive.
Between eight hundred ard two thousand
incandescent globes will be used in public
decorations, besides those the city and in
dividuals now have A light will be placed
every two feet over the entire distance.
SHELBYvILLE.-She county now has
two women as substitute carriers on rural
routes Miss Pearl Lane was appointed
substitute carrier on the route from Nor
ristown several weeks ago, and Mrs Har-
riet NJ. Robin has been appointed on the
route from the Fountaintown postoffice.
The old soldiers of Shelby county
Wednesday, Aug. IL, at the county fair
grounds. number of prominent speakers
will be invited to attend.
NEW ALBANY-Mrs E. NJ Morrill,, of
this city, and S. S. Morrill,. of Fulton, n.
celebrated the eighty-eighth anniversary
of their births. They claim the distinction
of being the oldest twins in the United
brother, attended the celebration at Fulton.
DR.. Morrill, and the participants in the cell
ebration are brothers and sisters of the
late United States Senator Justin Morrill,,
ofVermont.
JEFFERSONVILLE- great religious
revival is being conducted under large
tent, stretched commonb by the Rev.
j. l.. Butler, pastor of Morton Chapel M.
E. Church; Services are ,; held regularly hny
to be turned away. The different pastors
of the city are lending their assistance to
the work and the meetings are having
xx~id "a n
been seventy professed conversions.
NEW CASTLE.-The nineteenth annual
reunion OF the Thirty-sixth Indiana Regi-
ment v,ill be held here on Sept 16, the an
mustered in at Richmond by General
Wood in 1861. There was no reunion last
year owing to the prevalence of smallpox
in the county, the last one being held at
Lewisville two years ago, since which time
twenty-five members of the regiment have
died.
RICHMOND.-The Lutheran Joint Synod,
now in session at Logan, o.. and which in
cessful The Rev. Albert J. Feeger, of st.
Johns Lutheran Church, this city, was
elected president. His report contained a
number of suggestions that called OUT
through Sunday. which will be devoted to
religious exercises.
LAFAYETTE.-Direc of the Tippe-
canoe County Fair Association met in the
the fair, which will be held here the first
week in September. IL was decided to add
several new features to this falls exhibit
ton, and the affair should be great sue
cess. The horse racing will be more promi-
nent than heretofore.
PAOLI-Unusual activity is being man
ifested by gas and oil men in this county
near the Crawford and Dubois county lines,
on the south and west OF here. Thousands
of acres of land have been leased in this
county for oil and gas privileges and
local company has been organized and in
corporated to make thorough search for
oil, gas or minerals.
ELWOOD-The members of st. Joseph's
parish will celebrate the fourteenth ami
versary of the establishment of the parish,
which had previously been mission, sup
piled from Anderson, on Sunday, and elabo-
rate services will mark the morning. In the
afternoon memorial services for Pope Leo
XIII will be held.
TIPTON.-The fourth annual reunion of
the Observation-Disclosures Regiment,
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of the Spanish
American war. will be held in this city
Wednesday, Aug. 10. Prominent speakers
will be present and preparations are being
made to entertain the visitors.
PATAGONIA. r. Sterling cultivated
bia wheat on Sam Burtons farm south of
town, yielding a small fraction of over thir-
ty bushels per acre. This is the largest
yield reported in Morgan county
JONESBORO.-The American Window
Glass plant has closed for repairs. =
Low Pemberton, in charge of the electric
light plant, while a pole fixing a con-
nection. caught hold of live wire and
was severely burned.
BLOOMINGTON.-J. c. Castleman has
Bloomington High School. He is from Fair
mount and succeeds J. H. Castleman, who
goes TO Michigan Military Academy as an