The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-09-16

afayette.-Extension plans for ex.
+ perimental work in the growing of APP
+ pies, peaches and small fruits have
/ been formed by Purdue university hor-
/ ticulturists with the recent purchase OF
/ 40 acres for a fruit experimental
I farm two and half miles west OF La
/ fayette. The actual experimental work
+ at the university was limited because
! only IL acres were given over 10 the
t department OF horticulture. More
! elabors te experimental work In study
/ ing the effect of different stock from
which trees come will be undertaken.
/ along with pruning experiments, soil
management OF orchards and other
/ problems. peach, cherry and plum
/ orchard also will be set out for expert
mental work with these crops. \ study
will be undertaken also as to the best
methods of handling strawberries,
f, raspberries, blackberries gooseberries
and other small fruits. Truck garden
Ing also will be undertaken in Il more
/ extensive way
!
partment for increasing the Indiana
I National Guard, sent to Harry Il.
| Smith. adjutant general of Indiana.
/ call for 4,714 men in the guard by June
/ 30, 1922 and for the organization of a
+ number of new units. The strength of
the guard now is approximately 200
men. The expansion will bring the fol-
lowing new units: Headquarters for an
infantry brigade IL brigade headquar-
! ters company. an infantry regiment,
Headquarters for field artillery regi-
ment. headquarters for another bat
terry of field artillery, service battery
for the field artillery, headquarters and
service company and an engineer bat
| TALON.
IndianapoiS.-H ighest honors in the
boys live stock. judging contest at the
! Indiana state fair went 10 the team OF
three boys from Warrick county This
team won the 5000 trophy and the
right to represent Indiana in the ma
tional junior judging contest at the
international live stock exposition ut
Chicago in December. with 500 to-
ward expenses Howard Bates of
| Newberg, Warrick county. made the
highest Individual score of the 147
boys in the contest. winning a 800
scholarship at Purdue university. His
| successful teammates were Paul
Rauth and Rufus Scales, who tied for
eleventh in individual scoring.
Sullivan-Robert Veal of IndianapO-
lis and Ed Thompson of st. Joe, Mich,
who attempted to escape from the Sui
| Ivan county Jail. were sentenced by
Judge w. II. Bridwell of the Sullivan
court to Il term of three years in the
Indiana reformatory and fined 500.
Andrew Turner of Palestine, H., ar
rested on Il charge Of having passed
ten saws through the bars to the pris-
OnerS. is in the COunty jail awaiting
hearing, as is also his brother, Paul
| Turner who was arrested on Il charge
Of rObbing the Barker grocery store in
| Sullivan.
Indianapolis-Sh and city chiefs
of police in many places in Indiana
have not been needing the 1921 law
~
auto-theft division of the Office of the
| secretary of state the loss by theft or
recovery of a stolen motor vehicle in
their territories, said X. T. Humes,
chief of the Indiana state motor vehi-
Gle police. and he has prepared letter
to send to each of the officials direct
ing their attention TO chapter 200, Sec
ton II of the title registration act.
Lebanon.-The body of the man killed
by Joseph Cain, sheriff Of Boone coun-
~, in fight with five liquor runners
on the Noblesvile road, eight miles
east of Lebanon, has been identified as
that Of Paul Joseph Erwin of Chicago.
Friends took the body 10 Chicago. Err
win was twenty-five years old and a
clerk i'm cigar store i'm Chicago. tlez
Gentry. wounded by Sheriff Cain in
the same fight, is in the Williams hos
pital mt Lebanon.
Indianapolis.-rh total of state tax
levieS to be, fixed soon for collection
next year will be close around 22.4 or
243 cents. il seems probable from a
study of the state tax situation. The
total will be from "a TO 43 cents high
er than the total this year. The new
administration has fixed state tax
levieS The levies for this year were
fixed by the Goodrich administration.
Indianapolis.-At Il meeting of the
state creamery board the licenses or
three milk and cream testers were re-
voked Prof. H. w Gregory. chief Of
The dairy department of Purdue uni
verSity and chairman of the cream
cry board. announced that the action
of the board was due To reports that
the persons involved had been incor-
rectly testing cream and milk.
Beech Grove-Three armed bandits
held up the Beech Grove State bank. at
Beech Grove. forced three employees
and a customer of the bank into back
room and escaped i'm an automobile
with approximately $4,000. a con-
federate of the bandits remained ut
the wheel of the automobile in front
of the bank while the holdup was be-
Ing committed
South Bend.-With the death Of Yer
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