The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-04-01

/ the 1921 legislature. official figures in
the Office Of I'd Jackson. secretary Of
stale. show. The number is 4S greater
than the total number of laws added
by the 1919 Legislature. This greater
total of new laws * in spite of he
] fact that the number Of bills intro
/ duced in the 1919 legislature was II
+ greater than the number introduced
In the Session just endes.. Governor
McCray received and signed all the
/ bills passed by the session just ended
] with the exception Of six vetoed an,.
thirteen rejected. Governor Goodrich
vetoed only three of the bills passed
/ by the 1919 session. but he refused 10
receive number of them. Four hun
/ dred and sixty-four bills were intro
f, duced i'm the house and sos i'm tie
/ senate ut Nle session just ended. The
/ 1919 record was J04 house bills sEd
/ 34l senate hills. which shows that
while the house introduced fewer bills
IMAM IN 1919. the senate introduced
more. Besides the bills there We're a
number Of resolutions. most of which
were adopted. The closing OF the
records was accomplished when Gov
ernor McCray in the interests of econ
0my refused to receive the house bill
/ increasing the salaries o. county Gem
missioners approximately 100000 all
over the state.
| Ierre Haute.-An official count OF
the votes cast in a recent special cleo
! ton Of District IL, United Mine Work
erS of America, which comprises most
OF the coal district of Indiana. has
been completed. John Hessler was
elected president over Ed Stewart, his
opponent. by majority of 3,707 votes.
/ w. ID. Horn, Terre Haute, defeated
W. A. Kelley, of Bicknell, by vote
of 1921 TO $500, for international
| board member. Other officers were
elected as follows: District vice-presi-
dent, L. J. Roberts, of Linton; exec
utive board, district No. 1. Il. S. Bass,
Winslow; district No ,, Harvey Cart
wright Bicknell: district No. 3. James
IL. Terry. Digger, and district No. 4.
Davey Jones. Terre Haute.
lndianapolis.-On three Indiana
cities OF the seven from which the
seventh federal reserve district re-
ceives building statistics. showed gains
III the value of building projects in
January, 1922 over the same month
of 1920. The cities showing an in
crease in the value of building
projects were Hammond. Gary and
Rlchmond. THE permits for January,
1871, says Il review sent out by the
Federal Reserve bank, 'for the most
part show loss in value compared
with the corresponding month of the
previous year The number of pro-
Jects, however, was greater"
lndianapOlis.-The two years fight
of certain class Of public school
( teachers, who wished to obtain under
the 1919 Nesey teacher training law
benefits to which the state teacher
training board believed they were not
entitled. ended successfully when Gov
ernor McCray signed the LeeT house
bill No. u.s. The teachers. aided by
politicians, won the fight and the mo-
mentum of their victory carries hopes
! also for certain teacher training
schools in the state which the state
! board believed scarcely deserved to he
accredited rs teacher trainingfinstitu.
tions of the first degree.
South Bend.-SOuth Bends public
! schools will not be opened to the
South Bend School of Religious Edu-
cation for the establishment of courses
IN religious training for the school
children Of the city. A decision to
this effect was reached by the board
of school trustees. following Il request
of the School of Religious Training
for the setting aside of the school
| buildings for such courses after the
regular courses of the day had been
disposed of
Observation-Disclosures from all
over the United States will be invited
10 submit designs and plans for the
/ S15,0O0,O00 Indiana war memorial
! building 10 house the national head
/ quarters of the American Legion. DIR.
L. Victor Keene, national executive
i committeeman OF TIE Legion an
nounced. y fund of 100000 was ap-
, proprated by the Indiana general as
sembly for prizes and expenses of the
contest in bills signed by Governor
! McCray
Extraordinarily stockholders OF
the Iawrenceburg Fair association
nave leased the fair grounds to John
W. Zenner of Indianapolis for five
years. Mr.. Zenner will hold an old
fashioned fair. live stock. poultry and
farm product exhibit and race meet
ing each year, he announces. The
date for this years fair has not been
fixed, but ii will be during the latter
part Of August or the first part OF
September
Danville.-Twenty-th indictments
were returned by the Hendricks coun-
ty grand jury which adjourned here
after a fiye-day session. TIE indict-
ments cover cases of gambling. chick
EN- stealing and obtaining money under
false pretense
Terre Haute.-Earth tremOrs were
felt in numerous places in the western
part of Indiana and the eastern part
of Illinois few DAYS ago. No ner-