The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-05-20
INDIANA
STATE NEWS

poured into sewers daily SO The supply
viii not exceed the demand-and there
will be no reason" for lowering the
price. Ii is declared that the MILK
Producers Cooperative Marketing
company, having some 1900 mem
bers in Indiana. Illinois and Wisconsin,
thus disposed of LOO cans. about
54,120 quarts. M Gary and East Chi
cago, Il few days ago. and that IN
April the number of cans thus deliber-
ateiy spoiled averaged over 800. The
milk producers company, il is said,
has a place i'm Gary where the sur
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
bushel and wheat at S1.3O q bushel.
Many are only tending the land they
can handle with their immediate fam
lily help. and are renting their surplus
land TO 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 fand 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 no a
fair acreage has been planted.
Decentralization issues of road
bonds for as many townships of Clark
county will be sold shortly, bearing 9
per cent interest and aggregating
S116,37O. 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
case and 215 per cent in another case
of the total taXables of the town
ships, which are valued twice as high
now as few years ago.
winter only about per cent of the
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 1900 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 ReformatOry, recently left JEFF
! fersOnville for the state prison at
Michigan City. The transfer was made
as a step in transferring the jefferson
vile property TO private interests, to
which ii was sold following action by
the last state legislature The prison
crs will remain in the state prison un-
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 meI
who confessed to killing Vincent Wis
niewski near Clinton, was captured
at Terre Haute. Charles Gubelman
| twenty-three, who admitted having
fired the shot that killed Wisniewski
and Harley I. 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 South
Bend housewives in obtaining and
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 il was impossible
for South Bend women 10 get maids
because Of their desire TO work i'm fac
| tories or stores
JeffersOnville.-The. - township
trustees OF Clark county have decided
To hold good roads day, and every
able-bodied man i'm the county will be
asked To give 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.
IndianaDOliS-The state hiphva Z
commission accepted the resignation
of l.. H. Wright as director of the
commission and appointed Lawrence
Lyons i'm 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 il
| Evansville have registered their teams
The Crescent team will be entered ii
The international meet NJ 81. Loui.
September l. and 3.
IndanapoliS.-The Sons of Veterans
auxiliary ia session ar Indianapoli:
elected the following officers: Presi
dent. Mrs. Cora Swartz. Indianapolis
vice president, Mrs. Grace Fender
! Bloomington; treasurer, Miss Esther
| E,,ea In1ionopo1iS. caoro+or,, Nf;-.