The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-04-23

OF the school year. and j. s. Hubbard.
deputy state superintendent OF pub
lie instruction. has worked out an APP
portionment OF S262,53S-93 from the
state school deficiency fund TO help
them. A total of S~356.O13.7S was re-
Quested. but there was not enough
money I'm the fund for the purpose,
and money for 13 days school was
cut of each request. Extending aid
to short" school corporations is an
annual occurrence. The sums they
are TO receive this year range from
S6,917.69 10 $S.3S each.
Indianapolis.-New rates for the In
surance Of automobiles against loss by
fire. theft, tornado, lightning or trans
portation went into effect In Indiana
the past week. The new rates are APP
proximately one-third lower for high
priced motorcars. They are lower for
new low-priced cars, but higher for
such cars after one or more years OF
use. The three years insurance now
may be written for 2h times the one
year rate. Lower rates also are now
available for fleet insurance, that is,
where the owner of q number of auto
mobiles or trucks insures them togeth-
er.
Indianapolis.-The total taxes TO be
paid in Indianapolis this year average
27.S4 per cen higher than last year.
according to figures compiled in the
office of the state board Of tax COM
m~issioners. In Marion county the to-
tai is 27.66 per cent higher. The in
creases include the new levies the leg
i~slature fixed for the city board OF
health, for the city schools and for the
state highway commission, none of
which entered into last years calcula-
tons. This year the total taxes for
indianapolis are $9~,629,32S.S3.
MISUNDERSTANDING Lieber, di-
rector of the state conservation depart
ment, has Endorsed the plan proposed
by citizens of northern Indiana which
would place all lakes in the state of
ten or more acres in area under the
commission. 1t is expected that the
next session of the legislature will be
asked to adopt legislation placing the
lakes under the control of the COM
mission.
Connersville.-The hessian 1y's work
in Fayette county wheat fields last fall
is now seen to be as bad as was feared.
1t is the belief of conservative wheat
growers that the county crop will be
reduced ID to 20 per cent by the pest.
The same farmers predict that unless
the seed corn is tested, the corn crop
will be as seriously shortened by bad
seed as was the wheat crop by the
fly.
Washington. d. C.-That Indiana
business men generally are of the Opin-
ion that repeal Of the excess profits
tax and substitution for it of a straight
out sales tax would have the effect
not only of aiding business but also
Of reducing the high cost of living is
indicated in correspondence which Sem
ator Watson has had with a number of
prominent Indiana men.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. cannot legally
Ot&O1itt III -
state representatives, according to Ele
Stansbury, attorney general. The
question was raised when Margaret
Mcclure Turner of Hammond filed a
declaration of candidacy for the nomi-
nation for state representative from
Lake county to be voted on at the pri-
mary May A..
Danville, m.-Charles II. Hunt, sew
enty years old. n of the youngest sol
diers in the Union army, and a resi-
dent of Indianapolis for many years,
is dead at the hospital of the National
Soldiers Home at Danville, ILL.,, after
a long illness. He was thirteen years
old when he enlisted and was fifteen
when discharged.
Terre Haute.-Joseph Wilson, thir-
ty-eight years old, and his wife were
instantly killed when an automobile in
which they were riding was struck by
a Pennsylvania railroad switch engine
in West Terre Haute. Mrs. Bertha Ro-
bar. who was riding with them, was Sc
riOusly injured.
Washington, d. C.-Population statis-
ties announced by the census bureau
included: Jacksonville, 10,09S, q de-
crease of 314 or 80 per cent, over
1910; Clinton, 10,962, increase 4,744, or
76.0 per cent BEST Terre Haute. 4,3O7.
increase 1924, or 1877 per cent.
Observation-Disclosures about Alexan-
drin owning clover seed are disposing
of il at 800 a sack. A farmer bought
one bushel for $3.50. Owners OF he
clover seed say that the price will adj
vance more in another month.
Sullivan.-Vincennes capitalists have
bought 10 acres of Sullivan county
land and are making arrangements for
the erection of what will be one OF the
largest and best equipped mines in
southern Indiana.
Indianapolis.-The state board of tax
commissioners has authorized a refer
endum vote on the petition OF Union
township, White county, 10 construct
the Monticello road" at a cost of $780,
600.
Richmond.-One hundred and forty