The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-10-29
INDIANA
- STATE NEWS


chairman OF the commission, at
hearing OF coal wholesalers. Repre-
sentatlyes OF Indiana iObbers al the
hearing urged the commission 10 per-
init jobbers TO charge as their commits
sion 10 per cent Of the price they pay
for coal az the mouth of the mine.
The commission heard both operators
and retailers. This commission has
evidence said Mr. Eschbach, Ito show
that retailers I'm some Indiana COM
munities have such close OrganiZa-
ton with Indiana operators that no
customer in certain territories can buy
pound Of coal direct from mines or
colleries. unless the coal goes through
the hands of a retailer who collects
the regular profit"
AndersOn.-Madison county farm
ers report that more corn will he
shocked or ensilaged than ever before
because Of the low price for corn de-
livered at elevators Farmers esti-
mate they would lose heavily Mt the
present prices since they are below
the price paid for seed. Corn for can
ming factories is yielding approximate
~ $40 an acre. and farmers who grew
corn for packing plants believe II will
prove more profitable than corn for
the later market. Tomatoes for can
ming concerns have been averaging
more than 500 an acre and for the
reason that the canning plants pay
better than other markets ii is pre-
| dicted by farmers that the acreage of
common corn will be reduced next
year in favor of sweet corn and to-
matOes.
GOshen.-Charles F.. Morrice of
| Peru. formerly of Goshen. who sur
| rendered To the sheriff of Elkhart
county. who served warran,, issued on
| thirty-six indictments returned against
Morrice by the Elkhart county grand
| jury. completed giving bond for $4,000
and returned TO Peru TO resume the
management of q cabinet company. In
dictments returned against Morrice
are grand larceny. twenty: larceny and
embezzlement. six; forgery and ut
| tering forged instruments. six; petit
| Washington, D. C-The missing ODD
Of Indiana's population has been found
by the United States census bureau.
The population of VigO county. in
stead of 1OO.O3S. as announced. should
| be 1O0.212, and the population of
Franklin county. instead of the 14.75S,
should be 1896. The discrepancies
were discovered when addition of the
totals Of county population, as an
nounced. gave the state population
of ODD fewer persons than was an
nounced by the bureau rs the total
| for the whole state.
Seymour.-With favorable weather
thousands Of acres in Jackson county
will be seeded to wheat Most farm
ers withheld sowing until after Octo-
Der ) because Of the possible danger
of the Hessian fly. AS the wheat crop
| i'm the county was not as good as
usual last spring, some trouble has
been experienced in getting first-class
seed and farmers who held wheat
which tested high and was free from
cookie and other weeds seeds, disposed
| of 1T at $3.50 q bushel.
Indanapolis-TwO indianapolis men
were killed instantly and a third was
injured so seriously that he died flf-
| teen minutes later, when the auto
mobile i'm which they were riding
| turned over on the bluff read, twelve
miles southwest Of here, near Glens
Valley. They were on their way to
the Indiana-Iowa football game at
Bloomington. The dead: Harry f.
! SNYDER 20 years old; John A. Zeller
| 81 years old; Frank ]. Coffey, 80
years old.
Indianapolis.-J. l.. McCulloch Of
Marion was reelected governor of the
Indiana district Kiwanis Clubs at the
second days session of the third an
nual convention here. John y. Bro
inert OF Indianapolis was chosen one
of the three lieutenant governors Of
the district. The other lieutenant
governors are James F. Boyer of Elk
hart and h. 8. Alnutt OF Evansville.
| Indianapolis.-A state survey Of
commercial education possibilities is
Il 10 DE unUeTldhtH ny toLllllltitt
headed by l.. y. Hines. state superin-
tendent of public instruction. IL was
decided at meeting of number of
Hoosier educators. A federal expert.
representing the federal bureau Of
education recently conferred with
suite officials.
Lawrenceburg Crossed electric
| light wires started fire here In the
| drying house Of the RQssville Distill-
ing and Cattle Feeding company.
The drying house and II frame ware
house were destroyed. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000 and is covered by
| insurance.
| Seymour-Only ten per cent OF the
conl needed by citizens of Seymour for
use during the winter has been de-
livered. according To dealers.
Weevil has been dis
covered in some of the wheat In Van
derburg county and farmers have been
| urged 10 examine their stocks to see
II tlpy are affected. Most OF the farm
ers are holding wheat FOR higher
prices.
Navcosfle-Uenr- county Is ready TO