The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-27
INDIANA
STATE NEWS


will be no reason" for lowering the
price. Ii is declared that the Mink
Producers Cooperative Marketing
company, having some 1900 mem
bers in Indiana. Illinois and Wisconsin,
thus disposed of LOO cans, about
J4.120 quarts. ut Gary and East Chi
cago, a few days ago. and that. in
April the number of cans thus deliber-
ately spoiled averaged over 800. The
milk producers company, ii is said.
plus milk" is taken and separated from
the butter fat before il is poured into
the sewer.
Petersburg.-Owing To the lateness
Of the season much land in Pike coun-
~ will lie idle. Many farmers say
they cannot pay high prices for farm
labor and sell corn at 40 and 80 cents
a bushel and wheat at S1.30 n bushel.
Many are only tending the land they
can handle with their immediate fam
lily help, and are renting their surplus
land 10 their farm tenants. but more
land is being offered for rent than
there are tenants. Flowing for corn
is two weeks late now and much of
the land in the lower White river bot,
toms cannot be planted before the first
of June. Rye is heading and wheat
will be ready for cutting the first week
In June. Oats has good stand and Il
fair acreage has been planted.
Decentralization issues of road
bonds for as many townships of Clark
county will be sold shortly, bearing g
per cent interest and aggregating
Sl16,3IO. In accordance with the new
law. regulating rates of interest, no
tice has been given of hearing by the
state board of tax commissioners OF
any objections filed by taxpayers.
With bonds outstanding these will in
crease the amount to per cent in one
of the total taXables of the town
ships, which are valued twice as high
now as few years ago.
anapolis.-Because of the mild
Indiana winter wheat acreage seeded
last fall has been abandoned, says
George {. Bryant. satistician for the
cooperative crop reporting service, in
his report on Indiana farm conditions
for April. Wheat acreage shows Il de-
crease of $4,000 acres compared with
last year, says the report, but rye
shows an increase of 5000 acres and
hay an increase of $4,000 acres. Farm
work is about up to normal and the
mortality and condition of live stock
are about average.
JeffersOnville.-As special train bear
ing 300 prisoners, inmates of the In.
diana Rcformatory, recently left JEFF.
| fersOnville for the state prison al
Michigan City. The transfer was made
as step in transferring the Jefferson
| Vile property to private interests, to
which IL was sold following action by
the last state legislature. The prison.
crs will remain in the state prison I'M
| til their terms expire or the new re-
| formatory is built The train com
| prised five coaches and the men were
| shackeled in pairs.
Terre Haute.-Luther Atterson, thir
| ty-two years old, one of the three mer
who confessed to killing Vincent Wis
niewski near Clinton, was captured
ut Terre Haute. Charles Gubelman
| twenty-three. who admitted having
fired the shot that killed Wisniewski
and Harley T. Murphy. twenty-four
he other member of the trio were
also arrested and taken to the New
port county Jail.
South Bend.-The problem of Soutl
Bend housewives in obtaining anC
| holding maids. apparently has beer
solved by the elimination of hundreds
of girls from factories and the sub
stitution of men in their places. UI
| TO three months ago it was impossible
| for South Bend women to get maids
because of their desire 10 work i'm fac
| tories or stores
JeffersOnville.-The u township
trustees of Clark county have decided
10 hold a good roads day, and every
| able-bOdied man in the county will be
/ asked 10 give n days work. Those in
the rural districts will work under d.
| rection of the township trustees. and
those in the towns and cities under
! the town marshals and the city street
/ department.
, IndianapOliS.-The state highway
! commission accepted the resignation
of L. H. Wright rs director of the
commission and appointed Lawrence
Lyons in his stead. Lyons was a cam
/ paign manager for Governor McCray.
Evansville annual state meet
| OF first-aid teams from Indiana Goa
mines will be held in Bicknell. July .
\ first-aid team from practically every
mine in the state will be entered. The
! Diamond and Crescent coal mines in
Evansville have registered their teams
| The Crescent team will be entered in
the international meet AT st. LOui:
September l. and 3.
Indianapolis.-The Sons of Veterans
| auxiliary ia session At indianapolis
elected the following officers: PreSi
dent. Mrs Cora Swartz. Indianapolis
vice-preSident. Mrs. Grace Fender
Bloomington; treasurer, Miss Esther