The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-03-29
Indiana News
Tersely Told

indianapolis Io prevent n loss OF
corn due TO incapacity OF dryers I'm In
dianap0lls to care for all the grain that
has been shipped To- this market, the
public service commission has tele-
graphed TO Secretary McAdoo. director
general Of railroads. as follows: "Ship-
pers have flooded this market with wet
corn. Our dryers are unable TO han
die II. Unless an outlet can be had
ut once thousands OF bushels will be n
total loss. Buffalo offers best facili-
ties for drying corn. Can your order
be modified so shippers here can re-
c0nsign 10 Buffalo to avert this lossf"
kilograms were also sent to Senator
New and Senator Watson. The high
er price offered for corn on the In
dianapolis market is thought 10 have
bad something to do with the heavy
shipments.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS protest
ing TO III. A. Garfield, United States
fuel administrator, against the adop-
uon OF a proposed policy involving a
general increase In mine prices, which
would ostensibly be for the protection
or coal jobbers, on the ground that it
VIII penalize all buyers of coal who
nave made their purchases direct from
the mines, and protesting against the
placing in positions of final authority
In the distribution of coal men init
mately associated with and interested
In the coal industry" were adopted at
u meeting of the directors and execu-
tive committee of the Indiana state
chamber of A suggestion
that n schedule for summer prices for
coal be established was also submitted
for Mr.. Garfield's consideration.
Observation-Disclosures dairy wom-
en- Will be at work In Indiana for the
first time. if the plans announced by
Purdue university agricultural depart
ment are carried out. Announcement
was made that q course i'm dairying for
women would be given April IL to May
4. 1t is said to be the first course of
its kind in the United States and will
enable ONE to act as cream station
operators, milk and cream testers, ice
cream and cheese manufacturers. 1t
VIII enable women to take the place of
men who have gone to the front.
Indianapolis. - indiana's statewide
Liberty loan conference Of all agricul-
tural organizations, which will be held
In indianapolis at the statehouse
March u, was definitely organized
when q letter was sent out from the
office of Gov. James p. Goodrich to the
executive heads of all the agricultural
associations in the state, calling them
TO attend the conference with the gov
ernor, G.. /. Christie, state food diret
tor, and the Indiana state committee
on food production and conservation.
Seym0ur.-~Residents of suburbs cut
side the corporate limits of a city,
who have q garden and n chicken lot,
are not farmers" according TO an In
depreciation placed on the new flour
sale ruling by the federal food admin
Istration for Indiana. The order re-
ceived here aid persons who live in
the country might buy the maximum
allowance of 12h pounds of flour a
week, while those who "live In the
would De limited to one pound
week per capita.
Observation-Disclosures has two
,hiefS Of police. One Is Edward Cade,
who was appointed by former Mayor
L0ehr. and who was reappointed the
irst of the year by Mayor McCoun,
the other is Charles Rambo, who
been serving as night patrolman
iince the present administration went
nto office 60 days ago. At the meeting
# the city council Cade was dis
.harged from the force on the ground
f "inefficiency."
Terre Haute.-More than 80 saloon
.eepers, on being arraigned in circuit
curt before Clarence Royse, special
Judge, or indictments charging them
18th operating slot machines, filed an
in abatement, charging irregu-
lrities in connection with the grand
ury which indicted the s~aloonkeep- /,
rs. Only one s~aloonkeeper entered a
lea OF guilty. He was fined $50 and
osts.
Lafayette.-Sixty Purdue men have {
cen chosen by the commandment of /
military department at the univer-
ltty TO represent Purdue in the en- {
Ineers' reserve corps of the United !
tates army. The chemical depart {
lent contributes Is men, the civil en- l
lneering department seven. the cleo I
'ical engineering department IS and y
lie mechanical engineering depart f
Ient 2S. .
MISUNDERSTANDING In the suit n
the F. w. Cook Brewing company
sainst Lane Il. Osborn, prosecuting n
-torney, were postponed I'm superior +
,urt after evidence had been intro =
iced by the plaintiffs. The case in. y
a test of the state prohibition 4
W, which o e into effect April .. +,
Lafayette.-Patriotic service was
e keynote of the third annual con Z,
of the Farmer Grain Dealers ~
sociation OF Indiana, which was held =,
The organization is made up of a,
mers interested in grain elevators n,
roughout Indiana. :,
Petersburg.-The Ohio oil company.
a depth Of go feet, drilled In n 20 n,