The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-13
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF

/ Richmond is 40 cents thousand cubic
feet for all classes of patrons.
The school enumeration in Hunting
ton shows a loss of four as compared
to the one taken a year ago this
spring
The city of Decatur has eighty-three
more children of school age than last
year. according TO the report given
out recently.
A movement is on foot FOR a bridge
across White river at Hazelton. OBJ
| lection has been raised unless il is a
draw bridge
The school census just completed
shows 1881 children of school age in
the city at Brazil which, is more than
! 100 less than last year.
The members of the Blackford coun-
ty farm bureau will purchase coal col
lectively The wool clip will not be
pooled because the crop is too light.
| The township trustees of Madison
county have fixed the time limit for
and set the limit at SIS for paying
| commencement speakers,
White county farmers contributed
4,02S bushels of corn to the starving
people of Europe, according TO le-
port just made by Roscoe Frazer,
county agricultural agent
Byron Collins, age eight of Muncie,
was injured, the result of pounding a
revolver cartridge with a stone. The
bullet entered the lower part of the
boys leg and fractured a bone.
Governor McCray has commuted the
sentence OF Walter c. Baker, who was
TO die in the electric chair at the state
prison for the murder Of a Laporte
Ind) grocer, to life Imprisonment.
Nominations of E |. Lewis of Indi-
annapolis and James d. Campbell of
| Spokane, Wash. to the interstate COM
MERGE commission have been con-
iirmed by the Senate without opposi-
ton.
Enumeration of persons of school
| age in Shelbyville this year shows p
| 200 boys and girls. The number is a
loss of forty as compared with last
year. The enumeration in the county
also will show loss.
John Driver, lineman, employed by
| the Indiana Service Corporation at FIT.
Wayne, suffered a broken back when
I, Col g
thought the man fell while attempting
| to fasten his safety belt
The enrolment in the five-acre corn
growing contest in Blackford county
is larger this year than for the past
two years. County Agent Mansfield
of Hartford City is in charge. Mem
bers will join the Indiana State Corn
Growers Association.
Two bids have been received at
| Petersburg by County Treasurer II.
| Harmeyer on the $415,000 bond issue
! for the Patoka river drainage ditch.
Both bids were taken under advise
ment. The bonds pay per cent. in
terest and run for ten years.
Clarke A Richards, North Vernon
who has served as jennings county
agricultural agent since the Office was
established, has resigned to engage in
newspaper work Mr.. Richards goes
/ TO Fargo, n. D.. where he will conduct
the farm page Of the Fargo Forum.
In compliance with a request made
in a note left to his children, the body
of Alex. Romano, age sixty-seven, a
glassworker Of Hartford City, who
committed suicide by shooting himself
recently, will be cremated at Fl
Wayne. III health was the cause of
the suicide.
Charles Jeffrey, NJ r. Lowenstine
and George F. Beach, trustees of Val.
paraiso University. Valparaiso, have
returned from Washington, where
they signed a contract with the gov
eminent for the bringing of 500 stu
dents to this city for training under
the federal vocational board.
County commissioners at Laporte
have granted the petition of Hamon'
| Gray post of the American Legion
authorizing planting of trees along
Lincoln highway from the st. Joseph
county line to the Porter county line
as a memorial for war victims. The
trees will be planted fifty feet apart
About 5000 trees will be needed, 1t is
estimated.
An enumeration of the school chill
dren of Columbus just completed
shows gain of twenty-eight over last
year. The total number of school
children as shown by the report is 2,
325, which is the largest number in
the history of the city, The township
enumeration showed a decrease OF
forty veterans of the civil war, with
but 135 of them surviving in the town
ship.
Mrs Herman Bryant, living near
Winslow. was seriously injured re
Gently N a runaway at Winslow. Mrs
Bryant, who is the wife of Herman
Bryant, Republican county chairman
had driven TO Winslow to do some
shopping, and the horse be came fright
ened at state highway motor truck
and ran away, overturning the buggy
and throwing Mrs. Bryant out, break
| ing her collar bone