The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-11-22
STATE NEWS

health, said that the influenza pneumo.
MIA situation I'm Indianapolis Is not en-
cOuraging, from forty TO fifty new cases
are developing daily and between five
and ten deaths from pneumonia are be-
Ing reported each day. Unless the
public takes special care we may ex.
pect 70 have influenza ana pneumonia
with us oil through the winter" said
/ Doctor Morgan. 1.-The careless splitter
cougher and sneezer should be ostra-
sized. Every precaution should be TAX
en- against the spread OF nose and
throat infections" Twenty-Five coun-
ties reported 40 new eases of infiuen-
IN TO the state board OF health I'm the
reports TO the state board Conditions
have become serious ut Frankfort and
Vincennes. where emergency hospitals
were again established. The epidemic
still RACES I'm the coal mining district
about Linton.
lndianapolis.-W. w. Winslow, sec
rotary Of the state council of defense
committee on building and new con-
struction, Is notifying former unsuc-
cessful applicants for building and con-
structi0n permits of the ruling an
nounced by the war industries board.
removing In II great degree restrictions
on construction projects. Mr.. Winslow
estimates that millions Of dollars of
new construction and building contem-
plated by private and public interests
nr0nna6 m nph
the release granted by the war board
Governor Goodrich. especially, was
pleased over the fact that building may
proceed again in a nearly normal man.
ner, for he believes that the new work
will be OF the greatest use in supplying
employment to returning soldiers and
TO the thousands of workers soon to
leave munitions industries.
ianapolis.-Federal food admin
istrators in Indiana counties will meet
In Indianapolis for n conference with
III. +. Barnard, state administrator,
who has returned from Washington, ID.
G., with information as to the program
of the food administration. Mr.. Bar
nard conferred with Herbert Hoover,
national administrator, and admins
traitors of other states while at the ma
tiOnal capital. Information reaching
the Indiana state council of defense
from Washington Is that the United
States department of agriculture will
not take over food administration, as
has been rumored. 1t is pointed out
that the food administration will con-
tinue by law until legal peace is de-
clareG." Meanwhile the administration
is not to relax it's efforts to conserve
food, 1t is asserted.
IndianapOlis.-Coal dealers in In
dianapOlis Will not be restricted to q
fixed gross margin in selling coal to
consumers here. The margin limit of
50 q ton which has been in effect since
March Is was removed by Evans Wool
len, state fuel administrator, following
q conference in which q committee rep
resenting the Retail Coal Dealers as
ISOLATION preNented the claim that its
members have not been making money
while restricted to the gross profit of
81 ton. Domestic consumers prOba-
bly, will be asked to pay 90 cents a ton
more for coal. This will change the
price to hOuseholders from $3.50 and
S5.65 ton to So and $6.15 a ton.
Hammond.-NOwt that the world war
is over business and financial men of
the Calumet region, which includes the
steel cities of Hammond, Gary, East
Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Whiting,
In Indiana. have begun to turn their at
tention to problems of readjustment
These Will arise as industries, on
which the greater part of q combined
100000 population is largely depend
ent, settle down TO a peace-time basis. |
The principal industrial activities of |
the region include production Of steel, |
building Of railway equipment, refining |
of OIL and manufacture of chemicals. |
In addition the operation of railway |
large numbers of men.
Indianapolis. Governor Goodrich |
will confer with Washington Cd. CO. |
to learn what is to be done |
about continuing the war agencies iR. |
Indiana, such as the state. county and \
township councils of defense. fuel and |
food administrations and the like
There must be no letup in the steps
being taken for the conservation of |
coal. the officials of the state fuel ad-
were warned In q mes
sage from III. A. Garfield, federal fuel
The message pointed
out that Ii is just as essential that the
fuel supply be conserved now as it has
been OF any time since the beginning
Of the war.
Terre Haute.-The oldest medical
society west OF the Allegheny noun
tains, the Aesculapian society of the
Wabash Valley. recently held its seven
ty-second annual meeting. at which
Or. Joseph Hail of Westfield was elect
ad president. The society was formed
when doctors rode horseback. with sad
ilebags filled with medicine and surgi-
al instruments in Indiana and Illinois.
and was the first TO foster Rush Med
cal college OF Chicago.
Anderson.-For the first time in 30
'ears the Madison county Jail is with
)ut n prisoner awaiting trial in the cir
,uit court. The only persons in iail
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