The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1920-05-21
Observation-Disclosures
INDIANA
NEWS
Observation-Disclosures

Muncie. - Farmers of Delaware,
Madison, Henry. Blackboard and RAN
dolph counties expect 10 pool 100000
pounds of wool from this springs clip
They will offer it as a single guam
tity 10 the highest bidder. sealed bids
to be received The farmers agree to
deliver the wool TO some central point
In each of the counties under this
plan. The wool will be graded by
committees appointed for the purpose.
All sheep growers in the five counties
Will receive letters showing the plan
of the pools operation. Each county
will have its own wool committee. A
count of the sheep in these counties
shows the following: Delaware. TO-,
900; Madison, 1000; Henry. 5000;
Randolph, 1000. and Blackford. 5000
indianapolis. - Rejection by the
indianapolis Live Stock exchange of
proposal by the Indiana Federation
of Farmers Associations concerning
the placingl of a representative of live
stock shippers in the local yards was
voted unanimously at called meet
ing of the exchange at which all mem
berS were represented According 10
Lewis Taylor. secretary of the fed
GRAFTON, and f. f. Reynolds, treaSur-
en- the farmers will not back down
from their stand that they should
have a representative of their own
choosing in the yards to look after
their interests.
napoliS.-Special attention was
given 10 inspections of bakeries by
the food and drug division of the state
board of health during March. accord
ing 10 the monthly report of /. l..
| Miller. state food and drug commits
SiOner As result of the work Of in
spectors nine bakeries were con-
| cemned for violation of the state law
requiring the labelling of all bread
| cry where produced.
Petersburg. -The shortage of farm,
labor and the late spring will reduce
! the corn acreage i'm Pike county 40
J per cent. Many farmers cannot get
the necessary help to put i'm their
their farms. or are renting them and
are moving to neighboring towns and
cities. They are working i'm the build
! ing trades or are mining. which they
say is more remunerative than farm
! ing under existing conditions
IndianapOlis-Wil Ray. cOlored,
nineteen years old, was sentenced TO be
| electrOcuted on August >, by Judge
james \. Collins of criminal court at
| indianapolis, when a jury returned n
verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree. Ray is said to have
stabbed To death fOurteen-year-old
Martha Huff, white girl, en- April 10.
He will be the first person TO die in
the electric chair in this state.
Goshen.-Magdaline Green, daugh-
ter of Fred Green, n wealthy resident
! of Ligonier, has been i'll for some time
with an ailment that has baffied phySi-
clans. She was removed 10 a hospital
| in South Bend. where an X-ray eX
animation showed that she had 10 ribs
instead of 10 on one side. it was an
nounced. The rib was removed by
physicians and it was announced that
she is recovering
Observation-Disclosures are being
prepared by the Tippecanoe County
| Farmers association to be presented
at the next meeting which will ask the
state legislature to change the state
automobile license law. The farmers
are asking that all moneys received
] for state licenses be refunded TO the
counties from which it was received,
| instead of being divided pro rata by
the secretary of state rs is now the
law.
Salenf-Less than half the number
of teachers required for the town and
county schools of Washington county
are In prospect for next year. accord
ing to the county superintendent.
Only a. applicants for teachers H.
censcS took the examination last
month
Washington. II. Preliminary
population figures were announced by
the census bureau rs follows: East
Chicago. 1920 population. 3j96I IN.
crease since 1910. 1850 or $50 per
cent Charlottesville. 1920 population.
TO- i3o: Increase since 1910 TGS. or
So per cent
Jclfctsonvlle-- Because OF short
age OF lohor and the hackwnrdncSS of
farm work. Judge James w. Fortune.
In impuneling the petit Jury In the
Clark circuit court excused all fnrm.
crS from Jury service.
indiAaapolis.-1h Democratic state
committee, la a meeting held here.
went on record In favor of the selec-
ton of women delegates Ia the mn.
uon9l convention. The action was
taken In mn open meeting
Frank Notwithstanding Ia census r..
turns Franklin has n population ~
| 1855. mn Increase or 2.o5i. or 40
per cent.
indianapolis. - Governor Goodrich
has intrusted to Il committee OF his
own selection the-inyestlgatlon of the
charges made by Charles q. McNulty
that Indiann state farm prisoners are
poorly fed and mlStreated. The board