The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-12-14

Indiana Has Subscribed Over a MIL
lion Dollars to the Y. M.
c. A. Campaign
Fund.


campaign by $4,000.
Thieves broke into the garage of j.
c.. Coleman. at Rosedale. and stole 10
new tires and Is inner tubes.
Thieves stole an automobile belong
ing to John Montayne, a farmer OF
Greensburg.
Freeman +. Inman was instantly
killed and Ray Wright was seriously
injured at Laporte when a piano they
were moving fell and crushed them be-
meath it.
An order has been issued that no
women be employed around Camp Tay-
Tor at Louisville.
Samuel V. Perrott, former superin-
tendent of police of Indianapolis. I'M
der a fiye-year prison sentence for
election frauds, was granted Il further
respite until December II.
One hundred and fifty Fort Wayne
people were greeted with n rousing
cheer when they came TO Hattiesburg
TO visit Indiana boys at Camp Shelby.
They made a thorough inspection OF
the camp.
Patrick O'Reilly of Gary, who was
charged with assault and battery with
felonious intent. was found guilty and
state farm.
Discovery of an alleged band of
men who held regular meetings 10 dis
cuss ways of aiding the German cause,
has caused citizens at Richmond 10
ask that a deputy United States mar
shall be named for the city. Much anti
war literature has been spread and pa
triotic movements attacked.
Thirty-ive Bloomington capitalists
have leased 5000 acres of land in Law
renee county, near Tunnelton, and have
let the contract to IN Indianapolis corn-
pany to sink two test wells ut once at
a cost of $4,000.
Harold McCammOn, age fourteen,
son Of William McCammon of Paxton,
was shot accidentally in the right lung
by q target gun in the hands of his
brother, with whom he was hunting. 1t
is believed he will recover.
George III. Cooper sold his farm OF
80 acres in Sugar Creek township, near
New Palestine, to Albert Schildmeir, a
tenant for 1G years. for $26,40O, all in
cash-the record price for strictly farm
land in Hancock county.
Farmers of Wells county met at
Bluffton to arrange for the saving OF
seed corn for next year. Vacant store
rooms In the city and surrounding vii
lagos will be obtained and heated In
order to preserve the seed corn that
will be stored In them.
George A. Elliott, mayor-eiect of
Newcastle, has announced that he VIII
%reappoint William Williams chief OF
police, and John Yost. city engineer.
Jesse Whitaker, n farmer living near
Benham, received q load of bird shot
in his face and hands, while huntirs
with visitors from Versailles and In
d~ianapolis. His wounds are not serious.
August w. Neunfeldt, who has been
superintendent of the Lake county
farm at Crown Point for eleven years,
has resigned, and the commissioners
have appointed Charles ]. Belshaw.
formerly marshal of Lowell. to the
place.
A drinking fountain, a memorial 10
Mrs. Frances Blundell, who died last
fall, will be dedicated Sunday at the
First Baptist church, Terre Haute. The
fountain was the gift of Mrs. William
Kadel of Indianapolis, daughter of Mrs.
Blundell.
Edward L. Mckee of Indianapolis
has offered prizes to the pupils Of the
four Madison public schools for the IA
best essays written on topics of cur
rent interest. The prizes range from
So to 81 for each school.
Charles Zimmerman, a farmer. is in
a Warsaw hospital with n broker leg
and other injuries as the result OF
driving his automobile in front of a
Winona interurban car in a dense fog.
His machine was wrecked.
Mayor-elect William w. Weaver of
Bloomington announces the appoint
ment of DR.. Rodney Smith, DR.. Frank
Tourner and DR.. j. E. Luzzader as the
medical board for the city.
Daniel Breneman, forty-seven years
old. hanged himself in an abandoned
log cabin near his home In Polk town
ship. No cause can be given for the
act.
Confirmation of the former official
figures in the recent election for mayor
of South Bend was given by the re-
count of the machine indicators held
before Judge Funk of the circuit court.
Mrs. Fred Carlson of Laporte is suf-
fering from injuries that may prove
fatal, received when the steering gear
of her automobile broke and the ma
chine turned turtle. She was pinned
beneath the car and her skull was frac-
tured.
Ralph Rich of Elwood has returned
from Camp Shelby. Miss. where he
was discharged for physical disability
after being struck on the head by a
bayOnet. His skull was fractured. He
belonged TO the Indiana National
Guard.
Herbert 2. Jones has been appointed
receiver for the Robins Drug COM
pany, q Shelbyville concern which was
operated by August G. Robins.