The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-01-02

recently The permits were for the
Crown Chair company, 100000; I'm
Derial Desk company. $4,000: Mont
COR Furniture company. $4,000.
ianapolis.-Thomas II. Marshall.
vice president of the United States.
who is in Indianapolis for the holidays.
said positively that he is not candi-
date for any Office. and under no cir
cumstances would he run for United
States senator from Indiana.
lndianapOlis.-The state board OF
pardons at the conclusion of its De
cember session recommended to Cow
ernor Goodrich that he parole Is pris-
oners, commute the sentences of six
and refuse clemency TO %. 1t recon-
mended temporary parole for one.
Goshen.-Elkhart county farmers
met here and formed a federation to
affiliate with the Indiana Federation of
Farmers. Frank Cast Of OseOla town
ship was elected chairman Each of
the is townships of Elkhart county
has been organized.
! leXandria.-Truck drivers say ship
ments OF hogs TO Indianapolis markets
are exceptionally heavy this season.
One driver who operates three trucks
between this city and indianapolis
says that he has booked shipments far
into the month of January.
Auburn.-Dan NJ. Link, judge of the
Dekalb circuit court, overruled a de
murrer filed by the state board of tax
commissioners in injunction proceed
ings brought by the Dekalb County
Farmers Federation TO prevent 40
per cent horizontal increase in assess
ment of personal property in town
ships OF the county as ordered by the
state board.
Washington. ID. C.-President Will
son sent TO the senate the nomination
of Frederick Van Mugs of IndianapO-
lis TO be United States attorney for
Indiana, to succeed l. Ert Slack, whose
term OF office will expire January 10.
Mr.. Van Nuys is now assisting in the
work Of the district attorneys office
under temporary appointment made
by District Attorney Slack
MISUNDERSTANDING and cleaning
the Tippecanoe river from Warsaw
west 10 the Marshall county line is
proposed in Il drainage petition heard
in the K0SciuSkO circuit court by s.
\. Stevens of Plymouth, special judge.
The proposed drainage would cost
$150.OOO or more and benefits would
be assessed against thousands of land
owners in Kosciusko county and
against many in Whitley county. A
remonstrance has been filed.
Indianapolis. h. Miller, acting
state food and drug commissioner. has
received number of samples of dirty
sugar. which, it is reported 10 the di-
vision, is becoming common article
in Hoosier markets. Mr.. Miller point
ed out that persons who pay present
day fancy prices for sugar are en-
titled to clean, pure sugar and that
they are being imposed on when they
must pay for n quantity Of dirt at
sugar prices. The state chemists be-
lleve the sugar has been only partly
refined.
polis.-Harry l.. Smith adj
nt-general of Indiana. recently put
in the mails 500 checks for Indiana
soldiers who ut the beginning of the
war bought their own clothing or parts
Of equipment and who had not been
reimbursed by the government. The
last legislature appropriated $4,000
for the purpose Of reimbursing and the
federal government, IL is expected,
later will reimburse the state. The
state department is ha.ing trouble
finding the soldiers. who made the ex-
penditures of from so 10 SO each.
Two-thirds OF the soldiers never have
petitioned for reimbursementS.
apolis-DozenS fof kilograms
from nurses throughout Indiana are
going 10 Senators Harry $. New and
James T.. Watson, asking their support
Of movement undertaken by the Ma
tional Nurses association TO obtain
military rank for army nurses. The
war has shown clearly how imperative
ii is for such change in the general
scheme of military nursing. according
TO Mary a. Meyers. president OF the
Indiana Graduate Nurses association,
who is assisting other agencies In
forming an organization Of all nurses
in the state to assist i'm influencing
congress TO enact legislation 10 benefit
the army nurse.
Indianapolis. - Maintenance costs,
per capita figures. unpaid bills, unused
balances, number of inmates and COM
parative statistics with the preceding
year are contained In statement
Amos w. Butler. secretary of the |
board of state charities. has prepared !
I'm summarizing the conditions ut the |
Is state benevolent and correctional |
institutions for the state fiscal year
lust ended. The maintenance cost Of |
the ~ institutions under the supervi- |
sion of the board" reads Mr.. Buffers |
summary amounted 20 S3,306, PSI 81, !
and 23T.3i2.07 was spent for new |
buildings and permanent improve
ments. total OF S35i3. 629.5s The In |
situations cared for 1858 inmates |
during the year. The daily average |
attendance was 1l.6l6 and there were |
- l,.. al % he.