The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-06-25

and nests are frequently destroyed by
! usually build, George y. Manifold.
superintendent of the division OF fish
+ and game. state department of con-
! seryation, has appealed 10 farmers to
. send ali good quail eggs they find to
/ the state game experiment station.
( where an attempt will be made 20
hatch them and increase the quail in
/ Indiana. In exchange the station will
endeavor 10 return some mature birds
TO the donors. Mr.. Manifold says
each egg should be wrapped separate
/ ly and carefully. and send 10 Frank
Hasselman, superintendent of the
state game experiment station at
/ Waveland.
South Bend.-Rt. Rev. Michael J..
Curley, bishop of St Augustine. Fla,
will deliver the baccalaureate sermon
at the pontifcal mass for the 1920
graduating class at Notre Dame uni
versity, June 13, and Morgan Joseph
O'Brien of New York will deliver the
commencement address June IA. The
commencement program this year VIII
cover three days, beginning Saturday
evening. June -. About ninety seniors
will receive their degrees from the
university this year. according to Rev.
Thomas Burke, G. S. c., secretary OF
the university. About twenty men,
bers Of the class will complete their
| UOrl- 1trri hn
South Bend-Realty dealers. fear
ing concerted action of the South
Bend city council in framing and
adopting an ordinance which would
compel them 10 rent houses vacant for
more than 30 days. have adopted res
olutions protesting against such ac-
ton. They say that builders of homes
are operating on small principal. and
it is necessary for them TO sell rather
than rent the houses if they are TO
continue in business. 1t is claimed
that although hundreds of persons in
South Bend are unable to obtain
houses. more than 500 houses are va
cant.
AndersOn.-High cost of building ma
terial has caused directors of the IN
diana Association of SpiritualiSts TO
abandon until next year a program
for new hotel, more cottages and
other improvements in the associa-
tons 4O-acre camp at Chesterfield. five
miles east of Anderson. The cottages
in camp are occupied By many fam
A.
The camp meeting will open July Il.
Seymour-Favorabl weather has
permitted farmers to plant a large
acreage of corn. The work was de-
layed early in the spring by continued
wet weather and 1t is expected that
the planting will continue until the
middle of this month. Because of the
failure Of many wheat fields. the
ground is being used for corn. The
acreage will be the largest in many
years.
dianapOlis-Effects of the Hessian
fly in Indiana wheat fields are becOm-
ing more noticeable daily. according 10
c. NJ. Reid. field agent of the Indiana
Federation of Farmers Associations,
who returned from two weeks tour
Of the state. The wheat is beginning
TO head he said, and particularly in the
southern half of the state the stalks
are falling over because of the work
of the fly at the base.
Indianapolis-Per 70 aban-
don its heating plant at Lafayette and
to withdraw its petition for an in
crease in heat rates there is requested
in Il petition the Northern Indiana Gas
and Electric company filed with the
public service commission. The COM
pany says that ii has lost money for
several years operating the Lafayette
plant. which has approximately 300
patrons.
Shelbyville - Farmers of Shelby
township. Shelby county. have decided
70 continue their wool pool. and not TO
turn the fieeceS back To the individual
farmers. 10 be disposed nf by them at
the best price Obtainable. The county
pool of wool will be maintained. al
though no bids for il were made re.
Gently when ii was offered for sale
WarSaw,-The Warsaw Military
band, which was mustered ont of the
Indiana state militia several weeks
ago, is being reOrganized as n civilian
band. Practically all the members OF
the military band have volunteered TO
become members OF the new OrganiZa-
ton. A boys band of % pieces also
has been organized in Warsaw
Crown Point.-Total taxes paid into
the Lake county treasurer's Office at
Crown Point this spring amount to ST.
OBJ, 1850. Eighteen persons have been
employed i'm the office for the last two
months. with night force of twelve.
Evansville.-Nfiss Pauline Stoeimer.
a trained nurse, is dead of sleeping
sickness NJ St. Mary's hospital this
being the first death of this disease
ever reported in Evansville. according
TO William Casey. city sanitary officer.
Columbus-Two new units of the
w. G. T. L. were organized in Bar
tholomew county. one at Grammer and
one at Newbern. The Grammer chap
ter has 2O charter members and the
Newborn a.
Noble county mem