The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-09-24
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permlnt growing area of Indiana and
Michigan by special committee ap-
pointed at conference Of mem
bers of the Peppermint Growers as
ISOLATION, shows net increase in pep
permint for 1920 over 1919 of 2,195
acres. with a probable reduction In
total yield from $4,000 TO $4,000
pounds. The acreage harvested In 1919
was reduced 2,635 acres by winter
killing and other destructive causes.
New mint planted for 1910 has In
creased the total acreage, however.
Since the survey began in July. wealth
er conditions have somewhat improved
the crop prospects. but the reports re-
ceived from all districts OF the mint
area indicate n reduction in total
yield. The summary of the situation
Is IA follows: Harvested in 1919. b.
400 acres; old mint TO be harvested
In 1920, 10.775 acres; new mint har-
vested in 1920, 5.262 acres; net In
crease In 1920 over 1919. 2.195 acres.
South Bend.-Onion pulling in 81.
Joseph county is under way. and with
n line thus obtained on the size of
the crop. growers are already say
Ing that the wholesale price, which
hovers around 1 cent pound. is due
for marked increase. This assump-
ton is based partly on the shortage
of the crop of Bermuda onions, the
chief center of which IS Laredo, Tex.
According TO the growers, the short
age Is so marked that Bermuda seed
has jumped from $3.50 pound to SIS
n pound. This, ii is stated, will coun-
terbalance the effect of record crop
of the ordinary onion, so extensively
raised in this part Of the state. and
of which, this year, there are $4,000
acres in the United States.
South Bend.-Three murder cases
are on the calendar for the term of
the st. Joseph circuit court. August
| Schultz is to be tried for the murder
of Henry Muessel and Frank ChrObot
! in connection with the robbery of the
office of the Muessel Brewing company
here in December, 1915, and Steven
Bartek and Ernest Garjepy will be
tried for the murder Of Carl Cook in
! LapOrte on Christmas eve, 1913, for
which crime Walter Baker also has
been sentenced to die by electricity in
the state prison ut Michigan City. The
! trials Of the three men accused of the
Cook murder were transferred here by
change of venue from Laporte county
Anderson.-WOmen of Anderson will
have TO pay poll tax under the pro-
visions Of an ordinance passed by the
city council in making appropriations
and fixing the tax rate for next year
The ordinance proposes that leach in
habitant OF Anderson between the
ages of twenty-one and fifty years"
must pay a poll tax. The ordinance
as originally drafted specified that
each male inhabltant" between GER
tain ages should pay poll tax. but be-
fore the ordinance was passed the
word "male" was stricken from the
ordinance.
1ndianapolis.-Corn cutting. seeding
of winter rye and wheat and fall plow-
! ing are engaging or are about TO en-
! gage the principal attention Of H0OSier
farmers. says George G. Bryant, agri-
cultural statistics for the co-Opera-
| tive crop reporting service, in his
summary of Indiana farm crop and
/ livestock conditions.
Kokomo.-Several hundred voters in
/ Howard county, who registered Sep
TENDER 4, will be forced To register
n.ta
their right TO the ballot, according TO
/ G. II. Brown, Democratic county chair
man. who took exception to the man.
ner in which applications for registra-
tons were filed out
indianapolis. = College students
throughout the state are confronted
with the difficulty of finding suitable
living quarters as result of the
shortage Of houses. The shortage of
rooms apparently is as acute in the
smaller college towns rs i'm the cities.
Various steps have been taken to
meet it,
Richmond. The Wayne county
council accepted the offer of reliable
persons" whose identity is not yet
made known, 10 give TO the county 500
600 in Liberty bonds as the purchase
price of $4,000 in county bonds, to be
issued for making improvements at
the county tuberculosis hospital.
Columbus - The Union Township
Farmers association has received one
Of two ears of lime recently ordered by
the association from the State Penal
farm. near Greencastles ut S1.15 ton.
This is the first attempt Of Barth0lo-
NEW county farmers ut collective buy
ing of lime for fertilizer.
Lebanon.-The Sixty-ninth annual
session of the Northwest Indiana con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church will be held in this city begin
ming Tuesday. September 2s. and con
tinuing until the following Monday.
Bishop Frederick n. Leete will pre-
side.
Terre Haute.-The Vigo County
Live Stock Breeders association IS ar.
ranging for Il stock show 10 be held
here October rs and 20.