The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-08-15
State
Happenings


nual meet OF the Pocket Flowing aSso-
citation. held here under the auspices
OF the Cronbach Industrial school Of
Oakland city college Miss Rhodes
drove a tractor and Mrs. Joseph Rich
ardson Of Oakland City. who also
drove tractor. was second with a
score ~ 9l.T per cent. The score Of
Miss Rhodes was the best ever made
here. Both women won in contest
with men. College officials estimated
she attendance al 5000
GoShen.-Iakc WawaSce cottngers
met at yawter Park hotel. Lake Wa
waSec and arranged 10 raise $. 1os To
pay the cost of q proposed dam to be
built east OF the Huntington street
bridge IN Syracuse and designed to
! raise and lower the level OF NawaSee
\ and Syracuse lakes. The action il be-
I ing taken under the Indiana conscrya-
/ tion act Ii j. planned 10 lower the
I lakes level in spring and raise il in
midsummer
Franklin. Telephone patrons Of
Whiteland. BargcrSvllle. Trafalgar
and Nce,lham exchanges in Johnson
county have organized 10 notify man
ayers that unless service l. improved
and rates reduced within week they
will remove their Telephones Thl>
dccisiou was reached nc mass meet
ings Ga BargerSyille and Whiteland.
Meetings have been arranged in the
other towns.
Fort Wayne.-W &. Barton Of Fort
Wayne was killed and Charles White
of indianapolis. salesman for the Cole
Motor company. and Fred Miles Of
Fort Wayne were seriously injured
when The ear driven hy Barton stalled
three miles east of the city and the
car. in which White and Miles were
riding. crashed into &c. Both machines
Were demolished.
Evansville Evansville T. without
bakery made pies and cakes. but there
i NO bread shortage. despite a strike
Of union bakers. Master bakers. donned
white caps and aprons and made their
own bread Delivery men walked out
in sympathy with the bakers Grocers
used their own wagons TO get bread
Indianapolis Action to- have the
United States government place an
embargo ON exporting sugar for the
next 30 days. ~ well as on accepting
foreign orders. IN order to relieve The
national sugar shortage was taken 10y
Indianapolis sugar iobher>
EyanSville-Th PoSey county conn
mis>ioner> ut Nj Vernon announced
the appointment 81 Oscar Hmgatc as
county roud superintendent. 10 succeed
Leo Cowen. no died in an Evansville
hospital lat saturday following an
operation for the removal ~ gnll
stones.
eenci>ile--rhrough change in
the attitude OF the administration of
DePanw university. here toward
young women students rooming in
homes of this city the ENROLMENT is
expected 10 be- the largest This year in
the history Of the school.
New Aibany-Curtis Rollins. aged
sixteen son of Luther Rollins Of this
CITY was drowned in the ohio river.
IIc ami several hoys diyed on a barge
and q j. believed Rollins head struck
au obstruction. as De- did not come to
the surface
Newcastle.-Theft "f plate of fried
chicken led 10 the capture ina thicket
ia the northern part Of Henry county
~ George. aiiu~ William Anderson. me-
gro. confessed slayer 1T Muncie drug.
-ist who e>,apcd from the Delaware
county Jail
NincenueS Fred Ennis and John
Bower were under arrest here IN con
nection with the death Of Homer Ne
Daniels. miner. whose body was
found floating ia the Wabash river
Washington. n C-Among DiS;in-
guished Service Cro>s wards lay Gen
oral Pcr,hing. announced 10y the war
department. H. one to Lieut.. Mike
O'Neal 81 Jacksonville. Ind.
Nlncennes Mussel digger~ in Wa
bash river hero found the badly de-
composed. fully dressed body ~ man
81 about twenty-eieht years. The body
has not been identified
ayettc.-IIarold Matters aged
nineteen. son 81 Mr.. and Mrs. Y. l..
Waters Of Lafayette. was killed by the
accidental discharge of a shotgun while
hunting rabbits.
Madison Pullem, twenty
one. was drowned while bathing in the
Ohio river. two miles east Of here. A
brother. George Pullem, aged ten. saw
HIN GO down
Scott sburg. Chester Gleason four
teen of Cincinnati. -. was drowned
in pond here IN - feet Of water.
He was swimming with companion.
Washington. James Doyle. twenty
-Four. returned soldier drowned when
hc was swept from "A sandhar in White
/ river. lie could not swim.
Petersburg Seized with cramps
| while bathing with other young men in
a pond. Aubrey Gowens twcniy.onc. Of
Union was drowned.
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