The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-08-16
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Indiana
BrevitieS

BLOOMINGTON, a stock company com
posed OF a 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
decision closing the doors or the citys
IL saloons, the league announces that
It will back the officers in seeing that
the laws are enforced, particularly
those relating to blind tigers" The
officers are as follows:
President, E. NJ. c. Hobbs. first
Eice-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 or
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 or 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.
nnersville-People 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 or
the east corporation line 1t is an old
mill pond and is so low that IL 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-seyenth 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 s. The annual reunion and
banquet of the alumni will be held Au-
gust Z.
Evansville. Henry w.
Marshall of the new Public Util-
tiles company, which has absorbed
all of Evansville's privately owned
utilities. agreed in conference with
the board of public works to recon-
mend to his colleagues of tie new
company a maximum of So cents for
gas for a ten-year period. He also
: consented to a provision that the rate
!. should never be higher than that on
subsequent revisiOns.
!. Columbus Two-Mile house, a
I saloon conducted by John Schmak
!. er. two miles west Of this city
!. was destroyed by fire caused by gaso
J.. line. Schumacher keeps gasoline to
supply automobiles, and when a party
= of tourists asked to be supplied he
n lighted a match TO find the barrel. The
4 fire which followed caused a loss OF
y IS. 900, covered by insurance.
= Elvood .-With the local lodge o
a Masons In charge of the cere
mony the corner stone of the new Fed
e eral building was laid here. The ad
l. dresses were delivered by Representa-
+, tive John A. NJ. Adair and Rev. Georg'
T. Winfrey OF Summitville. The build
ing is being erected at a cost OF $50
IL 600 and will be completed by mex
N April.
III Gard-Fines aggregating $500, tn
IL amount they are alleged to hav
IN taken from the pocket OF pal
IL If trousers that had been brought I
De them to be pressed, were levied b
u Judge Wildermuth upon Slava Che
brow and Jovan SiVo, tailors, ares
10 ed upon complaint of Frank Badgle,
~. South Bend.-The public marke
n, which attracted attention hei
90 from the time OF it's inception throug
GO its part In reducing the cost OF livin
ON locally, is a year old, and automati
=. lily becomes permanent. The mark
was to be operated for one year
=. an experiment However. IT hADbee
u so successful that its abandonmel
-. will not be considered.
"a Fort Wayne.-When he turn'
he around as somebody tapped al
10 on the shoulder. Heber Mosht
ne night ticket agent for the Pennsl
1T. vania railroad at Columbia Ci'
Ike looked into the muzzle OF revoiv
ily in the hands of robber. MosA
threw his hands up at the reque
ith OF the robber. who then took u
en- from the cash drawer and mace &