The Jasper weekly courier., 1918-12-20
State
Happenings


two years. Tabulations show that
total of S4.147 .2O0.36 was either loanes
or contributed by them for work IN
the conflict against Germany. In ad
dition, not fewer than 1.500 Montgom
cry county men entered the service o.
their country in the war. OF this mum
Der 1850 were indicted into servic,
through the selective draft. In addi
ton more than 800 men from Wabast
college here. large number of WHOM
are credited in other parts of the state
and nation. entered military service
about half of them as officers. Libert,
loan subscriptions i'm the county 10
tailed S3.505.OOO.
urg.-Arrangements are be
ing made for the installation of the
big new steel tipple at the Atlas No
1 mines, north of this city. The struc
ttre. which Is TO replace the big tip.
pie destroyed recently by fire. is to
cost $4,000. will be 96 feet high and
built TO handle 1000 tons of coal a
day. Big washeries also will be in
stalled. Workmen have begun work
on washhouse that will accommo-
date 450 miners. One hundred and
fifty new cars have been shipped Ia
the Atlas mine and switch room is be-
Ing made for GO empty coal cars day.
More than S300.000 will be spent in
improvements this winter and next
spring.
Salem.-In order to facilitate the
movement OF wounded soldiers 10 the
United States army hospital ut West
Baden by motortrucks. and to provide
for more rapid and convenient
method for handling supplies. Lieut..
William +. Rennie of Washington, in
charge of the purchasing department
In the army quarterma sier's detach-
ment, offers TO provide specifications
for road building and men and trucks
for the work IL county commissioners
along the road between West Baden
and New Albany will provide the
material.
napois.-Further direction or
control over the ice industry has been
abandoned by the United States food
administration, IL was announced in
an official notice received from Wash
ington by Harry +. Barnard, federal
food administrator for Indiana. No
tice was addressed To the county food
administrators of the state, by Mr..
Barnard, Withdrawing further respon-
In Al eF
ness, which in large number of
cases, has been assumed by the local
officials
indianapolis the pas
sage of stringent sanitary laws and
closer relationship for the enforce
ment of the sanitary laws. III. T.. Barn
ard, Indiana food administrator, adj
dressed the opening session of the In
diana Manufacturers of Dairy Prod
ucts assembled in their annual con-
ice-cream manufacturers he has given
much thought TO the standardizing of
the manufacture of creams and to ths
most fair methods of selling the prod
uct.
dianapolis.-Federal investigators
for the department of labor, in bull
letin received here, declare that in
nine mine and quarry states
they found children less than sixteen
years old employed only in Indiana.
They found 62 in the state. John
Ogilvie, acting head of the state mine
inspection department, in commenting
on the report, said that the Indiana
law permits persons as young as four
teen years old TO work in the mines.
apOlis.-Indiana banks again |
went lover the top" in subscribing for |
treasury certificates for the fifth Lib
erty loan. The states quota was &c. |
100000 of the certificates. AT close of |
business of the Seventh District Fed |
eral Reserve bank 6S counties of the |
state in the district exceeded the allOt-
nent by several thousands of dollars |
The allotment Of the 6S counties of |
The state was about per cent of the |
resources.
Terre Haute-Erection of q big car |
repair plant for the Pennsylvania
-ailroad lines in the east yards of this
,ity, is now under full headway and is
scheduled TO be completed within
hree months. The new plant. which
S TO cost S250.OO0, will cover % acres
md will consist of 16 separate build
ngs. Approximately 400 men will be
employed when the plant is completed.
Indianapolis.-The federal food ad-
in Indiana has renewed
is efforts TO have shippers avoid over
oading stock cars, particularly hog
'ars. following a report received by it
rom the Indianapolis stock yards.
The report said 154 hogs had been re-
eived dead at the stock yards because
# crowded and unfit cars.
Fort Wayne.-Because of the falling
If in the number of cases handled by
he attorney fer the poor of Allen
ounty since the state went dry, the
alary of that official has been re-
uced from SO TO $50 a month.
Seymour.-Unusually warm weather
ecently caused maple trees here 10
nd and in a few places dandelions
re In bloom. One year ago the tenn
frrra haro xyoS 1911 Ia..or- bor1.-