The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-06-09
HOOSIER NOTES
Wire Flashes That Revea! The
Happenings in Indiana.

| ENanSNllle.-Ja nleS II. lOHlllu III
formed the school board that he in
tended to resign as school superin-
tendent.
Princeton-Five thousand carna-
tons were destroyed when a swarm
of bees got into the carnation house
| of local florists.
polis.-Frank Leminez, adj
mitted to the Central Indiana insane
hospital from Clinton, May 5, hung
himself in a room adjoining the in
Urinary.
Spiceland.-H. II. Cooper, superin-
tendent of Spiceland academy for
thirteen years, has resigned. Mr..
Blose, of Cambridge City, viii sue
ceed him.
Salem.-Frank f. Morris has been
appointed by the Washington county
commissioners as auditor to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Ira l..
Rutherford.
Valparaiso.-The spontaneous COM
! bustion of chemicals in the laboratory
of the Valparaiso university science
department, started fire that caused
a heavy loss.
South Bend.-A live wire carrying
5000 volts of electricity dropped into
a pool of water on a prominent street
corner and the electrocution of two
horses and dog resulted.
Evansville.-Mrs. Carl Hyne, who
was bitten by bear at New Har-
mony few days ago and was In a
serious condition for a time, is be-
lieved to be out of danger.
Brazil.-The county commissioners
have set June 10 for local option in
Lewis township, Clay county. The
township is now dry" and the petit
ton was filed by the 'wets."
! Bloomington.-Cap James S.
Williams, IS, stone quarry operator,
is dead of paralysis. Williams was
thirty-second degree Mason and prom
inent in the affairs of that order.
wrenceburg.-Ignatz F. Gigerich,
ST., age ninety-two, wealthy farmer
and stock raiser, is dead. He was
born in Hamburg, Germany, and came
to Indiana with his parents when a
child.
Marion.-Dr. Brose Horne, of Gas
City, pleaded guilty before Harley
Harden, special judge in police court,
to a charge of assault and battery on
Mayor ]. o. Bachelor, and was
fined S..
Shelbyville.-Mrs. Minerva Thomp-
son, Of Waldron, the oldest resident of
Shelby county, celebrated her ninety
sixth birthday anniversary. She is in
the best of health and assisted in pre-
pairing dinner for heriguests.
Muncie.-Five hundred school chill
dren will participate in the folk dances
and singing which will form part of
the May festival of music to be given
by public school pupils in the high
school auditorium Friday evening.
Lafayette.-Under the direction of
the extension department Of Purdue
university, the various farm women's
clubs in Allen county will unite June
the farm homes of this county. Ex-
perts will demonstrate home econom-
les and landscape engineer and
rural home engineer will talk.
Terre Haute.-The corner stone of
the new 100000 Masonic temple will
be laid next Thursday. Harry B. Tut
hill, of Laporte, will preside. The
principal address on that occasion will
be made by Charles p Benedict, of
Indianapolis, present grand master.
The ceremonies will be participated in
by all the Masonic bodies of the city.
Kokomo.-Important steps were
taken looking toward the amalgama-
ton of the Woman's Franchise league
and the Equal Suffrage association of
Indiana, when a committee consisting
of the state presidents of each or
ganization and other appointed men,
bers declared in favor of such ANAL
gamation and decided TO appoint a
committee which will meet in Indian
apolis on June 10 to consider plans
for such a step.
Indian2polis.-A. A. Spears, of Bra
I'll, was nominated for the Office of
grand master of the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows of Indiana at the
meeting of the Grand Lodge here.
The position now is held by Jesse
Macbeth, of Fort Wayne. The cleo
ton will be held at the eighty-frst
semi-annual Grand Lodge meeting in
November. w. E. Deupree, of Frank
lin, was nominated for deputy grand
master; w. II. Leedy was renominated
for secretary, and w. A. Morris, of
Frankfort, was renominated for
grand treasurer. Other men nomi-
mated for offices to be filed in Novem-
Der are Benjamin Franklin, of this
city, grand trustee; Jesse Macbeth,
representative sovereign Of the Indi-
ana Grand Lodge for two years; w.
NJ. Nauer, of Vernon, representative
sovereign for one year, and George W.
Rice, of Lafayette, proofreader and
reporter of the Grand Lodge.
Brazil.-Edward c. Schletz, age