The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-11-23

Big Falling Of In Students at Purdue
University - Sunday Schools
Hold Convention in Wa
bash County.


soldiers abroad.
The French class of the Indiana
State Normal school at Terre Haute
presented Madame Sarah Bernhardt
with a silk American flag and many
boxes of roses In the reception she
rendered following her appearance
here In Camille" and "Portia."
After voting TO return TO work at a
mass meeting, miners employed In the
Clinton field, Glendale and other local
mines, changed their minds and the
local situation is regarded graver thar
ever.
1t was officially announced at Wash
ington that Doctor Garfield has APP
pointed Evans Wooden as state fuel di-
rector of Indiana. Mr.. Wooden has ac-
cepted the post
August Dubois, eighty-six, we'll
known pioneer of northern Indiana.
died at his home at Crown Point. He
was born in Alsace-Lorraine.
With the S5,000,000 mark passed In
Liberty bond sales ut Indianapolis. the
bankers and woman workers %redoubled
efforts To reach the quota of $4,000
600.
Because statistics show II slight fall
ing of In the membership of the
Friends church of America. the finan-
cial committee Of the five years meet
Ing at Richmond urged well-to-do
QuakerS TO give to a great fund TO be
used in church extension work.
Apprehended as they were about To
leave for Detroit, Mich, Miro Mitio-
yich and Elise Paretichovich were ar
rested at Gary. charged with having
engineered propaganda and attacks
against the Montenegrin mission TO the
United States.
Two thousand buyers stormed the
Woman's Food exchange at Indianap-
oils to get fish caught in streams I'M
der the direction of the state fish COM
missioner, for five cents n pound.
La Grande county passed its mini
mum quota in the Liberty bond cam
paign, reporting a total sale Of $780,
600 with Il quota of $4,000.
One case of ~infantile paralysis has
appeared at Fort Wayne.
The National E~vangelistic society of
the Christian church will hold it's 1918
convention at Columbus In August.
Basement of Jacksonville high
school building flooded to %extingulsh
fire in 300 tons of coal stored there.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. III. Robbins cele-
brated their fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary at Hartford City.
Drastic action has been taken to
check the smallpox in Bicknell.
At New Albany, Louis Soergel dug
a turnip in his garden which a en-
circled by a gold ring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander S. Savers
of COvingtOn celebrated their tiftiett
wedding anniversary In the house
where they were married.
At South Bend, Mrs. Anthony Mir
ocha robbed of S145 by thieves WIKI
forced her TO reveal its hiding place
in the mattress.
Merchants of Bloomington are do
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 $40
killed by a traction line at Shelbyville.
The Monroe County Bar association
has subscribed $4,000 for the second is
u Of Liberty bonds.
Liberty loan campaign is on in earn
est at Elwood, having already SUBJ
scribed $125,O0O of its quota of $780,
900.
Membership campaign of the Green's
burg Y. M. G. A. netted 90 new men,
bers, making total membership 553.
Knights of Columbus of Elwood will
erect u twO-story lodge home next year.
Claude Sanders, nine, killed at
WoOdville by train while driving a cow
across the track.
Steve Fox Of Bicknell fell from an
apple tree and broke his leg and vas
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 not injured, was ar
rested.
DIR. Peter b. Dick, seventy-nine, was
married at Muncie for the fifth time
when he ooh as wife Frances T.. Clark,
.sixty-siX, q 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. L. Pearcy Of Ontario has
been installed as pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church at New Albany.
The funeral of Frederick ID. Boehm,
young Muncie business man, who was
shot dead in the police court room at
Hammond by Oscar Landmesser, an
evangelist. who was craZed by jeal-
Gus was held Thursday at the home
of Boehm's uncle, j. Rhineheart Hum