The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-06-29
Hoosier News
Briefly Told

Mrs. Lucy Blacks home and will oc-
cupy 1t next year.
vincennes.-Robert Lind. Jr- aged
eight. shot In the eye with air rifle by
his younger brother and may lose his
sight.
Warsaw.-Load of Ice fell on VIII
liam Munson, manager Of Marion Ice
company, breaking his leg.
South Bend-Notre Dame Alumni
association has bought $4,000 OF Lib
erty bonds.
Schneider.-James S. Lape, brake
man on New York Central, scraped
from freight car and severely injured.
Indianapolis-Ex are busy
examining the books OF several Indiana
coal companies TO discover reason for
high cost.
Greencastle.-Frank Winehart and
Phil Arbor, arrested for alleged steal
ing of two hogs worth S26 from John
Bryant.
Mooresville.-Frank Balm badly hurt
when driving q coal wagon by being
caught between top of door and his
wagon.
South Bend.-keamer KOuts, fifty
six, decapitated by elevator weight in
plant of Studebaker factory while In
stalling fire escapes.
Brazil.-John w. Wright seriously
injured when his motorcycle ran into
an automobile.
Huntington. = The Union Sunday
school in Union township has agreed
to give $50 each year as long as the
war lasts to the army Y. NJ. c. A.
work.
Observation-Disclosures to the Red
Cross society of Hancock county are
being established in all the small towns
throughout the county.
KOkOmO-County Clerk c. E. Mid
dletOn forwarded to Adjt. Gen. Smith
of Indianapolis the completed conscrip-
ton cards showing a total of 1853 en-
rolled
Richmond-Mrs Jean Livingston has
been appointed registration clerk by
l.. S. Bowman, Republican county
chairman. She will serve during the
session of the registration board from
June Il to August 20. She Is the flrst
woman appointed to a registration
board In Wayne county.
MISUNDERSTANDING Mckee given
prison sentence and fined $500 for as
sault on eighteen-months-old child.
Danville.-Basemen Of Hendricks
county jail flooded and many valuable
records damaged.
Observation-Disclosures district Christian
EndeavOr, composed of counties or
Howard, Grant, Wabash and Miami,
held twenty-seventh annual convention
here.
Greenfield. = Twenty-eighth annuSl
convention of Epworth league of Mum
Gle district held here.
Veedersburg.- council has or
dered water-works pumping station
and the light plant closed at midnight
In effort to save coal
Observation-Disclosures have been or
dered by the fire marshal TO construct
only fireproof buildings in the fire
limit
Marion.-Carl Helm, newspaper man,
appointed second lieutenant In regu-
lar army.
Greenfeld.-R Cross chapter is
preparing for drive for new mem
bers.
Marion-Old wooden brige over the
Mississinewa river has been closed be-
cause unsafe and Is to be replaced by
steel structure costing $4,000.
Goshen.-Charies Lutes, farmer
fatally injured when five horses
hitched to a harrow ran away.
Rochester = Forty-three applicants
took the examination here for carrier
on the rural route.
Bloomington.-Every employee In
the post office here has bought Lib.
erty bonds.
Brazil.-Dr. A. T. Spears has been
reelected to the school board.
Tipton.-Cattle owned by Mrs. Sarah
Roads and V. o. Horton dead from
drinking paint.
Frankfort.-Road markers will be
placed at every cross roads this sum
mer.
North Liberty.-Mr and Mrs. S. j
Stofer celebrated their fiftieth wed
ding anniversary.
misunderstanding of French IL
,he public schools will be resumed
here.
ianapolis.-Woman wage Garner!
here have bought a total of S45,OOt
worth Of Liberty bonds.
Washington.-B. & o. shop EN-
ployees have been given raise of
cent and half an hour.
Marion. = Miss Margery Sturdy
trained Red Cross nurse. will take
charge of the training school here.
Madison.-The defunct People:
Trust company bank is making A
per cent payment TO depositors.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY council has passed
ordinance prohibiting fireworks on TIT
Fourth.
Huntington.-In rescuing little three
vear-old Harry Monper from the Wa