The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-11-09
ENROLMENT IS CUT
Big Failing OF In Students az Purdue
University - Sunday Schools
Hold Convention In Va
bash County.

Neiihihs THO ScHulnR Oh tODhCCo 10 the
soldiers abroad.
The French class OF the Indiana
State Normal school mt Terre Haute
presented Madame Sarah Bernhardt
with n silk American flag and many
boxes of roses I'm the reception she
rendered following her appearance
here In Camille" and "Portla."
After voting 20 return to work nj n
mass meeting, miners employed In tho
Clinton field. Glendale and other local
mines, changed their minds aud tho
local situation II regarded Rraver than
ever,
IL was officially announced az Wash
ington that Doctor Garfield has MP
pointed Evans WOODEN M state fuel III.
rector IF Indiana. Mr.. Wooden haa nc.
cepted the post.
August Dubois, cighty-six. we'll.
known pioneer OF northern Indiana.
died " his home at Crown Point. Ito
was born Ia Alsnce.Lorrnine.
With the S5,000.000 mark passed la
Liberty bond sales nt Indianapolis, Tie
bhnkefa aud woman workers redoubled
efforts 10 reach the quota, OF $4,000.
600.
Because statistics show n slight full.
Ing of In The membership OF the
Friends church of Amerlcn, the nnnn-
clal committee OF the five years meet.
Ing ut Richmond urged well-to-do
Quakers Ia give Ia n great fund 10 be-
ngaH In alpp.l ax4anslAa .sF.VIs
Appreciated rs they were about Ia
leave for Detroit, Mich Miro Mltio-
vlch and Ellso rnretIchovlch we're ar
rested ot Gnry, charged with having
engineered propaganda and attacks
against the M%ontenegrln mission To the
United States.
Two thousand buyers stormed the
Woman's Food exchange at lndlnn0p-
oils 10 get fish caught In streams UNI
der the direction of the state fish com.
missioner, for five cents n pound.
In Grande county passed it, mini
mum quota In the Liberty bond cum
paign, reporting n total sale OF $780,.
900 with II quota of $4,000.
One case of ~infantile paralysis has
appeared nj Fort Wayne.
The National Evangelistic society OF
the Christian church will hold Its 1918
convention at Columbus In August.
Basement of Jacksonville high
school building flooded TO %eytinguish
fire In 200 tons of coal stored there.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. ii. Robbins cele-
brated their iftieth wedding anniver-
sary ut Hartford City.
Drastic action has been taken TO
check the smallpox In Bicknell.
At New Albany, Loui Soergel dug
u turnip In his garden which was en-
circled by n gold ring.
MIR. and Mrs. Alexander S. Sayers
of C~ovington celebrated their iftietf
wedding anniversary In the house
where they were married.
At South Bend, Mrs. Anthony Mir
ocha robbed of $145 by thieves who
forced her TO reveal Its hiding place
in the mattress.
Merchants of Bloomington are do
mating their space In the newspapers
to advertise the Liberty bond sale.
Northern Indiana superintendent
club held Its meeting at South Bend.
The Monon road has named the pay
car of the road Bloomington"
William c. White has accepted $170
in settlement for a horse and n mule
killed by n traction line at Sh~elbyvllle.
The Monroe County Bar association
has subscribed $1,000 for the second Is
sue of Liberty bonds.
Liberty loan campaign is on in earn
est ut Elwood, having already SUBJ
scribed $125,0O0 of its quota of $780,
900.
Membership campaign of the Green's
burg Y. M. c.. a. netted 90 new men,
bers, making total membership SOB.
Knights of Columbus of Elwood will
erect a two-story lodge home next year.
Woodville by train while driving a COW
across the track.
Steve Fox OF Bicknell fell from an
apple tree and broke his leg and was
not found until evening.
John w. Siersdorfer, forty-four. was
seriously hurt when a team of mules
ran away with him at Aurora.
At Evansville, William Watkins,
thirty. instantly killed when the taxi
In which he was riding overturned. The
driver. who was o injured. was ar
rested.
DIR. Peter Il. Dick. s~eventy-nine, was
married at Muncie for the fifth time
when he took as wife Frances f.. Clark.
sixty-six, a three-timeS widow.
John w. Shields. for seventy years
member of the First Presbyterian
church at Peru and for sixty years
choir leader, was elected an elder even
though he Is now an inmate of the Odd
Fellows home at Greensburg.
Rev. w. 7. Pearcy of Ontario has
been installed as pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church ut New Albany.
The funeral OF Frederick ID. Boehm.
young Muncie business man. who was
shot dead In the police court room ar
Hammond by Oscar Landmesser, an
evangelist. who was craZed by jeal-
ousy. was held Thursday at the home
of BOehm'S uncle l. RhineheaFt Hum