The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-05-04
Hoosier News
Briefly Told

| COnnerSStlIe. - postmaster simon
Doengas has announced that he will
give the 81 enlistment fee he is en-
titled 10, TO the enlisted man.
Observation-Disclosures elm, three hun
dred years old. cut down in yard OF
Cineas Ryman.
Bloomfield. = Forty-first annual
meeting of Woman's Missionary so
ciety of Indiana Presbytery for this
district held here.
Lafayette. = Twenty-eighth annual
conference of paid officers of Y. NJ. c.
As of state held here.
Bourbon-Scarlet fever has closed
the schools here.
Observation-Disclosures room for SOL
diers established by Ministerial asso-
| citation.
Hartford City.-Frank Miller, Ger
man, fifty-seven, and his houSekeep-
er. Miss Clara Dickey, arrested
charged with tearing and burning an
American flag.
WarSaw.-Joseph Burwell, aged six.
fell into a bathtub of boiling water.
notwithstanding has burned
three barns in two weeks.
observation-disclosures of the new
consolidated school here will be made
"A demonstration plot by experts from
| Purdue university.
Wabash.-WOman's Franchise league
of the Eleventh district elected as
chairman Mrs. Z. a. Gould of Peru.
Hartford City.-American Window
Glass factory will have to close soon
because of inability to secure mate
rails.
ushville.-Citizens have taken S10.-
600 stock in the Modern Appliance
company and it will move here from
Chicago.
lOOmingtOn.-Indiana newspaper
mems conference at the Indiana uni
versity May 1912 postponed on ac-
count of the war.
Kendallville. Martin, for
mer member of the local militia, fined
| SO for tearing down flag from res
taurant window.
Indianapolis.-W. L. Walsh of
Frankfort named trustee of Indiana
School for Feeble Minded Youths at
Fort Wayne to succeed Clay w.
Metsker.
Hanover.-Paul +. Carson elected
editor-in-chief OF the Hanover college
paper the Triangle
Evansville.-New soldiers and sail
ors' monument, costing 500, 900, dedi-
Gated here
Wabash.-Merle Stahler, fifteen.
ducked by SchoOlmates because he
tore flag from his coat pinned there by
his companions.
Richmond.-Local school teachers
warned against expressing any anti
patriotic sentiment
Muncie.-This city holds the record
for enlistments, with 1O4 in one day, OF
which 81 were accepted.
Indianapolis.-War conference has
been called for April 26 by Indiana
Mayors association.
Columbus.-High school mathema-
ticians here have figured that the ma
tional waste of bread per day amounts
to $4,000.
Cayuga.-Safe in Galbreath & Co.'S
grocery blown by robbers.
Nashville-Every man in town has
agreed to plant an acre Of potatoes.
Boonville-Lodge of Elks here has
offered services of members to govern
ment.
Boonville.-George Y. Reed appoint
ed agricultural agent of Warwick
county.
Tipton.-Lawrence Whites auto
turned turtle, breaking both arms.
Boonville-Rev. John ID. Brett is the
new pastor of st. Johns Evangelical
church
INSTRUMENTATION National Bank
building, Marion's only seven-story sky
scraper is completed.
Terre Haute-Prof. A. r. Chairman,
aged ffty-seven, thirty-five years in
structor in State Normal school, Is
dead
MISUNDERSTANDING corps organized
here by DR.. B. A. Thompson.
Columbus. = Forty-second annual
meeting of the Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary society of the indianapolis
presbytery held here.
Madison-Home of ]. F. b. Lanier
will be purchased and presented TO the
Jefferson County Historical associa-
ton.
apolis.-Indiana Music Teach
ers' association held three days ses-
sion here.
Rushyille.-A. L. Stewart, wife and
son have offered their services TO their
country.
Culver.-Culver Military academy
has been offered TO the government for
training OF troops.
Markle.-Indiana Evangelical asso-
citation held its sessions here.
East Chicago.-R. f. Todd. president
of the East Chicago company, has Of
fered his yacht to the government.
Terre Haute.-Wilf Heady and son.
Lee were burned TO death and his wife
was probably fatally injured when
their home at Berlin, Okla. was
burned. They moved from this city
| TO Oklahoma recently.
Terre Haute.-Two hundred and fifty