The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-01-18
USE WOOD FOR COAL
Vigorous Campaign Going on in the
Hoosier State Under the
Direction OF the State
Fuel Director.

spreading throughout the Cnlteu
States. Indiana is the latest state to
follow the lead of the West, notably
of Kansas, and Il vigorous campaign
Is going on In the Hooser state. the
United States fuel administration re-
ports. Evans Woolan. state fuel adj
miniScrator of Indiana, has succeeded
so we'll in his campaign already that
In many OF the counties the coal deal
ers are refusing to sell coal TO those
In the rural regions where wood is
department also is cooperating. show
ing where wood may be obtained.
Sale of the Gillette Motors company
at Mishawaka to NJ. w. Mix, president
of the Dodge Manufacturing company,
has been approved by Judge w. a.
Funk of the circuit court 1T South
Bend. the consideration being S151, 900.
Preferred stockholders of the defunct
company. which has been in TIE hands
of the receivers for some time. opposed
the sale, cOntending that an effort was
10 be made TO reorganiZe.
the Canadian army have been killed in
action in France according to word
received at Gary. Arthur Robertson,
formerly a steel worker, was killed Oc-
tOber 81, according TO news received by
his sister, Mrs. J. Agen. The Red Cross
chapter has been notified of the death
in action of James Mckenzie. whose
father is commander OF Il United States
army transport and whose brother is in
the American army. Mckenzie fell at
Vimy ridge.
Nearly 100000 tons, or more than
has ever before been taken out of the
mines of the state, will be the total
coal production in Indiana during the
month of December, according to
Chairman Lewis OF the public service
commission. This record is considered
remarkable in view Of the fact that
during the week of December ID a biz
zard cut heavily into the mine output.
Pat Carey, sixty-srx, employed at
the Speedwell mine, was injured seri-
Ously at Terre Haute when he was
struck by Frank Skaters taxicab.
Mrs. SabOn Smith, who lives seven
miles northwest of Fort Wayne, is in a
local hospital with serious injuries re-
ceived when the automobile in which
she was riding went into ditch. She
is suffering from a fractured skull and
internal injuries.
Two cases of acute spinal menin-
gifts have appeared in Huntington
county, and are being closely watched
by the health authorities.
A number of National Guard officers
are due to lose their chevrOnS at Camp
Shelby, Miss, as result of the deci-
sion of the division efficiency board, If
rumors of coming shakeup in the
stats of the One Hundred and Fifty
second infantry and One Hundred and
Thirty-ninth infantry and the One
Hundred and Thirty-seventh artillery
carry weight
Mayor-elect Charles w. Jewett of
Indianapolis announced the appoint
ment of officials who, with him, Will
take Office January Z. George V. COT
fin, sheriff of Marion county, will be
the next superintendent of police.
/ Robert Ii. Bryson is recommended for
! city controller. The new mayor will
| be sworn in on his thirtyfourth birth
! day.
/ John McGrew. a miner in the Ayr
! shire coal mine ut Petersburg suffered
/ the loss of finger when it was caught
between two ears.
A new automobile owned by the
! Buick Automobile company of Indian
apolis. on the way from the factory
at Flint, Mass. was struck by Lake
! Erie & Western passenger. train at a
crossing at Alexandria and badly dam
aged. The driver escaped injury.
When his brakestick broke. Earl
Stinehart, car rider IN the Lake
Shore gravity yard ut Elkhart, fell on
the track directly in front of the NOV
ing car. Although his left leg was
fractured. he quickly pulled himself
out Of the way of the car, thus escap-
ing death.
a steam radiator which heats the Of
flee of the Greencastle kitchen cabinet
! factory at Greencastle exploded ana
partly wrecked the office.
John Stephan. age sixty-eight. died
ut his home in ndrews of injuries suf-
fered the other night. when he fell
down the cellar stairs. He was known
over the middle West rs dealer and
breeder of Poland China hogs.
Part of the brick wall and roof of
the foundry OF the NJ. \. Sweeney com
pany collapsed at Jeffersonvilie. Ten
7 men working inside the plant escaped
without serious injury. A slight fire
started. but soon was eXtinguished.
Eleven fine pigs belonging 10 Sam.
uel G.. Phillips. president of the Alex
andra bank. were stolen from his farm
west of Alexandria.
/ Cyrus w. Heath of Noblesville and
Carl Spiller of New York, both for
/ mer residents of Muncie. are said to
have bought the site of the old Ire
mont hotel here and intend 10 erect
modern building there.
Fort Wayne wholesale grocers are
without grain of sugar in their ware
houses. Little relief is in sight until
the Cuban crop arrives, sometime IL
January. Persons having ten or more
| e ,,,.ror ~, fhair homes \ r.