The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-09-10
INDIANA
State News


baccO has appeared in the vicinity.
Many of the growers are cutting their
tobacco green on account of it. 1t ap.
pears to be most dangerous along the
creeks and I'm the lowlands.
Fort Wayne.-At the annual con-
vention Of the Indiana State Associa-
ton of Master House Painters and
Decorators, at Rome City, the follow
Ing officers were elected for the COM
Ing year: President, Frank Johnson.
indianapolis; first vice president,
Frank H%ollopeter. Peru.
lndianapolis.-At a conference held
IN the office of l.. y. Hines, state SUI
perintendent of public instruction at
indianapolis plans were discussed for
the statewide educational drive to be
held In Indiana In November. II was
decided TO push preparatory work i'm
medlately after the vacation season.
Lafayette.-A world record price
for q boar pig was paid at q sale of
big type Poland China swine ut Ok
ford, Benton county, when Kendall &
Hackley, of Indianapolis, gave $3.50
for Triumph, q six-months,old animal
sired by Liberator. dam Model Clan
tess III. This is the highest price
ever paid for Il boar pig of any breed.
Washington.-The federal bureau of
public roads announced that the last
federal apportionment of road funds
~ Indiana nnnar tho 1910 onnrnnrio-
ton was S2.015, 2S9.95 and that there
also had been apportioned TO the state
from the last installment of the 1916
appropriation S671, 1882. These
amounts became available July l.
South Bend.-Governor Goodrich
stood speechless in water up to his
chest, waving his cane at Richard
Lieber, director of the state depart
ment Of conservation; Rodney Flem-
ing. deputy. and several deputy game
wardens on the bank of a pond at the
state fish hatchery near Lake Wawa-
see. The governor was surprised. A
moment before he had tumbled into
the pond as he attempted to hand a
frog to a large bass in the pond.
Petersburg.-COrn is in the best con-
ditiOn ever known i'm Pike county. and
under favorable weather conditions the
greatest crop in the history of the
county will he harvested. Wheat
ground is being prepared under favor
able weather conditions. and some
planting will take place i'm September.
The acreage i'm northern Pike county
will be greater than the acreage plant
ed last year. but in some parts of the
county the acreage will be materially
decreased.
acknowledgements has
been made Mt Indianapolis of the es-
adjustment of three free night schools
for ex-service men of Marion coun-
ty. This is part of the Knights of
Columbus plans to open free schools in
every principal city in the country.
All expenses for maintenance, sue
as tuition and textbooks, will he paid
out of the war fund balance of the
national treasury of the knights.
which amounts to more than S1.OOO.-
900. The schools are 10 be n
tartan. Academic and vocational
courses will be included in the curic-
ulum.
Terre Haute.-Danger of an extend
cd tieup of Indiana mines apparently
was past following an agreement
reached by the joint wage scale com
mittees of the Indiana Bituminous
Operators association and United
Mine Workers of District No. IL. The
new scale, which is retroactive TO Au-
gust 16, provides for an increase of 20
per cent TO inside men and boys and
$50 a day TO day" men. Other con-
cessions were granted the miners.
Immediately following the agreement
telegrams were sent to all locals adj
vising the men n wage scale had beer
agreed upon and directing them TO re-
turn TO work.
lndianapolis.-The state board of
tax commissioners ut its fourth SEES
sion. which is to begin September %.
probably will make only Il few slight
changes in the state tax vie Fred
A. Sims, chairman OF the board. said
Mr. Sims said the rise Of the total
state valuation. from approximately
: .7SO.OOO.O 600 in 1919 TO possibly
slightly more thar $4,000, OO0.OO o in
1920 will provide normal increases In
funds for the state levies. The total
of the state levies is is cents on each
500 of assessed valuation. OF hat
total 80 cents is for the state high
way commission 2.S for the state edu-
c"ational institutions. and ? for voca-
tional education. Those three levies
will be unchanged. Mr.. Sims said. The
remaining levies-2 cents for the state
general fund. 80 for the benevolent
institutions. and % for the state tut
ton und-may be slightly increased.
he sud.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS was chosen
for the next national convention OF
Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity. George
Jeffrey of Newcastle was elected pres
ident and +. Orchard of Bloomington
secretary.
Decatur.-To weigh h pounds ut
tie age of one gear is the distinction
of the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Mey-