The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-12-24

ate at this session will be rejected.
according to Republican leaders. who
asserted that the incoming admins
tration ought TO have the right TO make
these appointments. A number of In
diana appointments were sent TO the
senate recently. none of which will be
confirmed, according TO Senator New
OF Indiana. Indiana postmasters nom
mated were: Mary w. Lawrence.
Earlham; Nelson w. Mapel. CASTOR
Stephen f. Rogers. Greensburg; Mil
lard Crane, Winamac; Jeanette Il.
Winkelmann. Austin; Lola f. DoIen.
Avilla; Theodore w. Englehart, Bra
zil Silas X. Cheney. Bryant; Har-
vey Il. Mills. Camden; George w.
Stout. Hamilton; Herman DOYLE.
Montezuma; John r. Kelley. Marion
National SanitOrium; Claude l.. Car
penter, Pleasant Lake; Joseph t.
kistler, Royal Center; William G..
Moss, Spencer; Grover c. Spahr. Walk
erton; John ID. Holland. Waveland:
May w. Wood, West Lebanon: Pris-
ella NJ. McDade, Clarkshill; Drussa
ID. Pruitt. Gainesville; Robert Il.
Maggert, Cromwell; John I'll. Witt.
North Salem; Harrison ID. Houser,
Parker; John Z. Busse. Reynolds;
Otto w. Hipskend, Urbana; William
u. Umbarger Walton; William I'll.
McCully. BroOkston Virgil s. Wat
son, Brownsburg; William C. Hile,
Dale; Charles E. Miller, Elnora Fred
Z. Kennedy, Whiting
lndaDapOlis.-Legal traffic in mar
cotic drugs i'm Indiana is decreasing,
the state pharmacy board believes 1t
observes that the number of prescrip-
tons for such drugs is decreasing. In
recent report the board said: THE
number of addicts is now almost negli-
giDie. This condition has been brought
about by constant surveillance and the
system OF reports required of drug.
gists With the disappearance of the
whisky drug stores from the state, the
business of the balance is of q very
nigh standard. The narcotic evil is
In great measure disappearing. and
many druggists have announced their
intention of disseminating the handling
of narcotics entirely"
Indianapolis.-Ra by the hundreds
infeSt many downtown eating houses,
corner grocery stores and buildings
where quantities of fOodStuffS are
kept, according TO statements made
before the indianapolis city council,
just before it passed an ordinance fix
Ing a bounty Of cents for each rat
Killed in the city. The rat popula-
ton in indianapolis was estimated at
more than $4,000 by DR.. Mark Zeig-
Ter OF the United States public health
service.
LapOrte.-The grocery store of the
Laporte Cooperative society, estab-
llshed about year ago by factory
workers, several hundred Of whom
subscribed literally for stock, passed
into the hands of the Peoples Trusti
and Savings bank as trustee for the
creditors. The store is to be closed,
the venture having proved a financial
failure, due, it is said. in large meas
ure, to the large number of factory
men thrown out of employment.
AndersOn.-One hundred bushels Of
good white corn sold at 20 cents
bushel at a public sale on the farm of
Charles B. holland, near here. Farm
ers said the corn sold at considerably
less than the cost of production. They
also said that prices of live stock are
declining and that land values seem
to be receding. holland sold a 4O-acre
tract at $175 an acre. 1t had been es-
timated that the land would bring
5000 up
Indianapolis.-The availability of
Hoosier streams as water power
sources for either direct power or for
the generation of electrical power is
being investigated by w. n. Logan,
geolOgist FOR the state conservation
department. Mr.. Logan says that only
about 10 per cent of the water power
available is being used He points
out that utilization of water power
would save coal.
Lafayette.-An airplane will be used
for the first time in fox drive I'm Tip
pecanoe county, when the farmers of
Wabash township meet mt Klondike
December ~, for their annual round
mp. Foxes are unusually numerous
this year I'm the Klondke vicinity and
many hen roosts have been robbed.
The drive this year Is expected 20 at
tract no less than 1000 persons.
Observation-Disclosures entered tho
United States post office and the Of
flee Of the American Railway Express
company NJ Parker. IL miles west OF
Winchester and obtained small
amounts OF money and postage stamps
amounting approximately To $500.
The robbery was one Of the boldest
committed in Randolph county In
years.
Laporie.-For the first time I'm the
memory Of the Oldest resident. Laporte
county farmers started December
blowing. If suitable weather continues
IL is expected that within short time
the blowing of nearly the entire acre
age Of the county TO be sOwn 10 spring
wheat will have been completed.
reenfield-Because II was alleged
that retail coal dealers had refused 70
weigh coal sold by the city. the council