The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-04-16
INDIANA |:
Il STATE NEWS |;

indianapolis The state highway
commission is at work formally desig-
mating the state highway system In
compliance with the 1919 state high
way aw. Approximately &c routes are
TO be included In the system. They
will embrace approximately 300
miles. Each county seat or town OF
5000 population will be reached by
the routes. With the formal d~esignat-
Ing of the system the state commission
VIII assume control over the roads.
They Will be under the control OF the
commission maintenance division.
which is required 10 keep up the sys-
TEN.
MISREPRESENTATION painters In Lafay-
cite receive 90 cents an hour. The new
schedtre was agreed on by the build
ing trades contractors. There will be no
strike In any of the building trades In
Lafayette this year, as all the demands
have been met. Plumbers, plasterers
and brlcklayers will get the highest
wages under the new agreement.
They VIII receive 81 I'M hour. Carpen-
ters will be paid so cents; electricians.
20 cents; fathers, S7h cents; sheet
metal workers. - cents; hod carriers.
40 cents. and building trades laborers,
10 cents.
Lafayette.-Boys and girls In In
diana are to be encouraged to grow
potatoes this season. and this Will be
accomplished by organizing potato
clubs and arranging n state show.
where the members of the club may
compete with one another for cash
prizes ~aggregating 5000. The show
VIII be held i'm connection with the
annual farmers short course ut Pur-
due university here In January. 1927.
MISUNDERSTANDING can no longer
keep their children out of school on
the grounds of employing them, accord
Ing to an Interpretation of the compul-
sorry school attendance law issued by
the state board of %truancy. In the
judgment of the board, employment
certificates cannon be issued except TO
children who are being employed for
hire. The board held that parents
cannot employ their children.
Lafayette.-Sheep raisers in Indiana
are not responsible for the high cost
of clothing. according TO Claude Harp
per. Purdue university sheep specialist,
and also secretary of the Indiana
Sheep Breeders and Feeders assOcia-
ton. who has issued IL statement to
the effect that the farmer receives only
$3.50 for enough wool TO make q suit
for a man weighing 10 pounds.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the Indi-
ana-Ohio Baseball league, composed Of
six teams. was announced following a
meeting of representatives of the clubs
at Richmond. The league will open
May IL with the following cities:
Fort Wayne, Richmond, Muncie, and
Anderson, n Indiana, and Springfield.
and Lima or Middleton, in Ohio. with
Dayton Il possibility.
Gary.-Mrs. Fred Carter. widow of
former Sheriff Carter of Lake county,
is the first woman in the section to file
n declaration as n candidate for n pO-
litical office. She lives in Hammond
and will run On the Democratic ticket
for county commissioner of the First
district. Carter was killed while Sher-
if in q row at Cedar Lake years ago.
Hammond.-After celebrating nine
hours a jury i'm the Lake county Grim
lnal court AT Crown Point acquitted
Miss Evelyn Bowman, accused of caus-
ing the death of Mrs. Harry Stingley
and Elizabeth YOunke of Hammond
last October, by forcing them off Cal
umet boulevard into Lake George, with
her racing car.
Indianapolis. = The Indiana Food
Brokers association, an organization
to bring about closer relationship
among food brokers and TO encourage
exchange of ideas beneficial TO the OPP
Gently ut Indianapolis.
COlumbus.-A minimum price of SIT
n ton for sweet corn was liked at n
meeting Of the Edinburg Community of
Farmers, an organization of farmers
of Johnson and the northern part of
Bartholomew counties.
Lafayette. - A three-weekS' field
course on farm management, open 10
men holding a bachelor degree or its
equivalent, will be offered by the Pur-
due school IF agriculture during the
period of June 1870.
Lafayette.-A son born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Glenn Lawler of Clarks Hill, is
well-favored with grandparents. Not
only has the child four living grand
parents, but seven living g~reat-grand-
parents.
Bluffton.-FOod production in the vi
cinity of Button will be reduced from
20 to - per cent by the labor shortage,
according TO the county agent. who is
surveying conditions in the county.
Fort Wayne.-MOre than 80 persons,
injured in the tornado ut Fort Wayne,
are receiving treatment in Fort Wayne
hospitals. The dead in Allen county
number u.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. has a pOpula-
ton of 5.49S. an increase of 573. or 11.6
per cent. North Manchester, 2.711;
increase 2S3. or III per cent.
Laporte.-The Laporte county com