The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-11-12
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Rush county.
Wabash.-Mrs Amos Reynolds. M
ty-five. is dead here of burns re-
ceived when she leaped into pile
of brush she had gathered and ig-
nited. Domestic trouble is believed
to have prompted Mrs. Reynolds act
Noblesville.-In a local option cleo
ton, Noblesville voted dry by
majority of 23I. as compared
with 10 two years ago. The official vote
is as follows: First ward, vets, 10:
drys, 246: dry majority. 1S1. Second
ward, vets, lie; drys. 3O6; dry ma
jority, 1S9 Third ward. vets. 31l;
drys. 22S; wet majority, So.
Muncie. A change in the d.
rection of the wind and a light fall
of rain probably saved from destruc-
ton the town of Red Key, which is
Is miles northeast Of here and con-
tains 1900 inhabitants. One buEineSs
block was burned before the elements
combined to stop the blaze.
Laporte-Kendal will decide
the fate OF its seven saloons on
a local option election on Monday,
November %. The date was fixed by
the Noble county commissioners, IN
response to petitions signed by 437
persons. Kendallville is the only town
between Elkhart and Toledo having
saloons
New Albany.-In honor Of Pres
ident Woodrow Wilson, the city
council, on petition of property hold
ers in East Elkin avenue, has changed
the name of the thoroughfare to
Woodrow avenue. Ninety per cent or
the petitioners were Republicans.
One of the oldest streets in the city
is Gait street, the name OF the presi-
dents fiancee.
Noblesville F. Haines. for
years a teacher in the schools OF
Hamilton county and we'll known in
educational circles throughout lndi-
ana and adjoining states, notified the
county board of education of his inten-
ton to resign next June as county SUI
perintendent He has accepted the po-
sition of manager OF the Young Peo-
pies Reading Circle OF Indiana.
Moores Hill. - The old building
of Moores Hill college, an insti-
tuition under the direction OF the
Indiana Methodist Episcopal confer
ence, was burned TO the ground. The
fire spread from the college to the
new Carnegie hall and TO buildings in
the town. and as the place was with
| tot 6ul
the whole town was soon endangered.
Calls were sent to neighboring cities
for aid.
lle.-Announcement that he
! had discovered treatment for
cancer which has proved success
full in a number of cases was made
by Dr. C.. A. Pope OF Louisville. KY
at a meeting here of the Ohio Valley
Medical association. Doctor Pope
stated that extracts from the pro-
TENS of certain vegetables, hypo-
dermically administered. compose
his cure, which is known as "autoly-
sim
ACKNOWLEDGMENT that clover
seed had been stolen from the Gez-
leichter & Silvcrs elevator and that
clover seed was in the bottom OF
| Charles WATERWAYS automobile. which
was borrowed" by unidentified per-
sons, lead the police to believe that
port seed to fence" The car OF
Rev. Elmer Ward Cole was the OBJ
ject of thieves. but the minister
frightened them away.
Anderson.-Carl Wipp, thirty-six,
general storekeper for the Union
Traction company. fe dead at
his home here while he was lighting
the gas IN a stove He had been suf-
fering from excessive blood pressure.
and had Just returned from lndianap-
oils, where he consulted specialist.
Before coming to Anderson be was
auditor for the Honey Bee Traction
line His widow is the daughter OF
former Chief of Police Benbow OF
Muncie
Indianapolis played little
part in the town elections held
throughout Indiana. The issues
were purely local and in some
places no tickets were nominated,
the present officers being allowed &c
hold over. In many towns nonpartisan
tickets were elected without OPPOSE
ton. There are about four hundred
incorporated towns in the state and
elections were held in most OF them
The offices voted for were those o
marshal. clerk. treasurer and trus
tees. In Nashville the election fol
lowed the most heated campaign IN
years, the issue being the construc
ton OF a municipal plant to give tbs
town its first electric lights. with |
bond issue of $1,000. The vote wa.
Al for TO 20 against. The plant means
an increase in taxes OF five cents Oh
each 500. 1t will provide lighting TO
streets. dwellings and business
houses
Evansville.-Fire which destroys
the large sawmill of the Hel
frich Lumber and Manufacturing com
pany here and spread TO the lumbe
yards. did damage estimated at $3.50