The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-09-24

I lstcr again or lose their vote In the No
vember elections. This ruling was
made by the Indiana board OF cleo
! ton commissioners. The meeting was
called TO make a ruling following re-
ports from Johnson county that Re-
publican and Democratic county chair
men there agreed not TO raise the age
question and To permit women, If they
chose. 10 conceal their true age. The
opinion is given by W. w. Spencer,
Democrat, and William II. Thompson,
Republican. who, with the governor as
the ex-0fficio member. comprise the
state board of election commissioners.
Maurice Il. Tenant, as a member OF
the state boards legal committee, also
concurs i'm the opinion.
| Indanapolis.-The Blackford county
team. which won first honors in the
boys live stock judging contest at the
state fair was composed of Mark w.
Langdon. Charles Clamme, Jr. and
Vaughn Johnson. The Blackford
county boys won a $500 trophy and
trips 10 the International Live Stock
exposition at Chicago in November.
The Decatur and Upton county teams
tied for second place, while fourth
place went 10 the Madison county
team and fifth TO the three boys from
Clay county. The Dearborn county
team won first honors in judging dairy
cattle, and will represent Indiana in
the junior judging contest at the ma
tl0nal dairy show In Chicago In Oc-
| tober. The next four teams In this
event in the order in which they fin
ished follow: Madison, Wells. White
and Tippecanoe counties.
South Bend.-Heavy rains have
eliminated any fear for the potato
crop Of northern Indiana and southern
Michigan. According 10 growers, the
yield will now be above normal
and of sufficient dggers can be OBJ
tanned the price should drop. Fruit is
so plentiful throughout the district
that only the choicest specimens are
being harvested. The yield is so large
that the growers fear 10 put any but
the best on the market, realizing that
flooded market will reduce the price.
to point TO make the raising of fruit
Improbable. Pluns, peaches, apples
and grapes were never more plentiful
and along the highways of southern
Michigan the displays made up Of
boxed and unlocked fruit are attract
ING the attention Of autOists.
English.-Calvn Mitchell. age thir-
ty-two, and Len Mitchell, his brother,
were arrested while blowing on their
farm by S. NJ. Cunningham, sheriff Of
Crawford county, and his deputy, and
taken to this city, where they were
placed i'm the Crawford Jail, charged
with the murder Of John Lawrence,
age thirty-f>e, who was killed by a
shot fired from ambush at the home
of John Mcfarland his brother-in-
law.
Valparaiso.-The state withdrew a
motion for demanding OF the case Of
the alleged Tolleston bank bandits
back TO Lake county, and the case will
be heard here in the superior court OF
Porter county, Tuesday, September u.
! The state has abandoned its intention
to include burglary charges in the pres
ent Indictment for murder. The case
Of Thomas Bachelor will he heard
first. to be followed by three others.
Indianap0lis.-Thc monthly report OF
the cooperative crop reporting service
for Indiana shows an Improvement in
nearly all crops over n month ago. the
| most notable of which are the corn
and oats crops The former shows an
increase of 6.20G,OOO bushels and the
latter an increase Of 5,605. 900 bushels.
Glover seed shows an especially large
increase over last year. being 100000
bushels larger.
Sullivan.-A deed for 81 032. 10. re-
curing revenue stamps for 81 .033, one
of the largest deeds ever recorded i'm
Sullivan county. was filed with the
county recorder and auditor. The deed
transfers all the coal property of the
Consolidated Indiana Coal company
i'm Sullivan county 10 the Templeton
Coal company.
Goshen-John w Miller. forty
smallpox after an illness OF two
weeks. The smallpox situation in
Goshen is very serious. Five cases
We're recently placed under quarantine.
All school children in the city will be
required 10 undergo vaccination.
Valparaiso recent rains have
Softened up the farm lands, so that
blowing can be done, preparatory to
sowing winter wheat. The fruit crop
in the county will be n bumper one
this year. Peaches. plums. grapes.
pears and apples are abundant and all
are of high-grade quality.
Indianapolis.-Fak experts and
"blue-sky" merchants are the pests Of
the oil industry and should be elm
mated by corrective legislation. ac-
cording TO DR. W. " Logan. state geo
logist. in II book. that has just bsen is
sued by the state department OF con-
seryation.
South Bend.-Inability 10 float a
100000 issue Of per cent bonds.
maturing in five years. has made it
necessary for South Bend 10 abandon
/ oil. 10