The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-08-02
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Indiana
BrevitieS

posed OF number OF leading
citizens, has just been organized. and
more than $4,000 has already been
subscribed. The object of the league,
so the officers say. is the enforcement
OF the law within the city.
Now that the court has rendered a
decision closing the doors of the city's
IL saloons. the league announces that
1t will back the officers in seeing that
the laws are enforced, particularly
those relating TO blind tigers The
officers are as follows:
President, z. NJ c. Hobbs, first
sice-president. DR.. William Lowe Bry-
an OF Indiana university; second vice
president, B. F. Adams: secretary
treasurer, Charles H. Springer: trus-
tees. Registrar John W. Cravens OF
Indiana university, Samuel w. Collins
and Councilman Simeon C. Freese.
Princeton.-A crusade has been
started by citizens at Fort
Branch. eight miles south of here,
against the cigarette. Affidavits have
been filed against several dealers who
are alleged to have sold cigarettes to
minors. Several misdemeanors have
been committed in that town of late.
and in practically every instance the
offenders have been excessive cigar
cite smokers. Recently a freight car
was broken into and several large
boxes of cigarettes stolen.
Connersville.-Peop living in the
east side have made so many
complaints about mosquitoes that the
municipality has decided to act. and
the first step will be that of filling up
large stagnant pond just east OF
the east corporation line. 1t is an old
mill pond and is so low that ii cannot
be drained. Millions of mosquitoes
breed in the place, which is fed by a
sluggish spring. and they infest the
whole east central section OF the city
Danville.-The thirty-seventh an
nual commencement of the Cen
trail Normal college will begin Au-
gust 2, and continue all the following
week. The college will graduate more
than 200 pupils this year The COM
mencement address will be by Rev.
DR.. Cloyd Goodnight, pastor of the
First Christian church, Shelbyville.
and will De delivered on the evening
of August 8. The annual reunion and
banquet Of the alumni will be held Au-
gust T.
Marshall OF the new Public IT'LL
tiles company which has absorbed
all of Evansvilles privately owned
utilities, agreed in conference with
the board of public works to recon-
mend to his colleagues of the new
company a maximum of s. cents for
gas for ten-year period. He also
consented to a provision that the rate
should never be higher than that on
subsequent revisions
Columbus.-The Two-Mile house, a
saloon conducted by John Schmak-
er, two miles west of this city,
was destroyed by fire caused by gaso-
line. Schumacher keeps gasoline to
supply automobiles, and when a party
Of tourists asked to be supplied he
lighted a match TO find the barrel. The
fire which followed caused loss OF
$4,000, covered by insurance.
Elwood.-With the local lodge of
Masons In charge of the cere-
mony the corner stone of the new Fed
eral building was laid here. The ad-
dresses were delivered by Representa-
tive John A Nj. Adair and Rev. George
Winfrey of Summitville. The build
ing is being erected at a cost of $780,
600 and will be completed by next
.pril.
Gard-Fines aggregating $500, the
amount they are alleged TO have
taken from the pocket Of a pair
Of trousers that had been brought TO
them to be pressed, were levied by
Judge Wildermuth upon Slava Chel-
brow and Jovan Sivo, tailors. arrest
ed upon complaint of Frank Badgley
South Bend.-The public market.
which attracted attention here
from the time OF it's inception through
its part In reducing the cost OF living
locally, is a year old, and automatic
lilly becomes permanent The market
was TO be operated for one year as
an experiment. However, IL has been
so successful that it's abandonment
will not be considered.
Fort Wayne-When he turned
around as somebody tapped him
on the shoulder. Heber Mosher.
night ticket agent for the Pennsyl
vania railroad at Columbia City.
looked into the muzzle of a revolver
in the hands of a robber. Mosher
threw his hands up at the request
OF the robber, who Ihen took $145
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