The Jasper weekly courier., 1921-06-10

Petersburg hundred ana ht.y
Angora goats were received At Hart
we'll recently hy the Hartwell Mining
company. The goats were bought in
Kansas City 10 be turned loose ua the
property of tie + ming company. con-
siSting Of severa thousand acres of
coal laad IN sou hern Pike county.
much OF which Il growing sassafras.
small sprouts and trees The goats
VIII be pastu-ed on the property. in
an effort 10 kill the sprouts and sas-
sasfras. Hundreds of acres OF this
land can be reclaimed If I can be
cleared without too great an expense
10 the mining company, and the goats
were obtained TO do the work of men
in the clearing.
Indianapolis. = Hayden Stedner.
about sixty-fve years old was in
stantly killed and his grandson, Harry
+, Black, twelve years old. was injured.
perhaps fatally. when Stedner's auto
mobile was struck by a b. * O. train
at Pierceville. Jessie Szczypanec. fif-
teen years Old, was killed and Ida
Wolfe, seventeen; Margaret Wolfe,
sixteen. and Steve Waite were in
jured seriously when an automobile
in which they were riding fell through
4 bridge on the Liberty trail near
Michigan City.
NobIeSille.-E. E. Cloe. Judge of
the Hamilton circuit court. appointed
the Wainwright Trust company as re-
celver for the &. w. Booth Farm Sup
ply company, which has stores in No
blesvile. Westfield, Arcadia and At
lanta. The appointment was made on
a petition fled by the Eastern Rock Is
land Piow company of Indianapolis,
which has q claim of $4,000 against
the company. During the trial a few
days ago it developed that the in
debtedness of the company amounted
to $4,000
indianapolis Recommendation for
the appointment of a committee from
the Indiana Federation of Farmers
Associations >to investigate the de-
STABILITY of acquiring Tennessee phoS-
phate lands TO the extent of about
1000 acres will be made to the execu-
tive committee of the federation by
the president of the organization, it
was announced. The question was
discussed at a meeting of the direct
ors recently and referred to the ex-
ecutive committee.
South Bend.-SpOntaneous combus-
ton or a spark from a passing loco
motive. it is believed, started fire
which did S2500O0 damage at South
Bend. The fire started in the South
Bend grain elevator, where nearly 200,-
600 bushels of coffee is stored, spread
to the Grand Trunk docks and to sew
eral office buildings and residences.
Trains on the Grand Trunk and New
York Central roads were delayed be-
cause intense heat melted and twisted
the rails
: IndianapOlis.-GeOrge T.. HerShman
of Crown Point. deputy grand master
Of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. was
nominated grand master at the eighty
fifth semi-annual communication at
Indianapolis He will be elected for
mally at the next semi-annual' COM
munication, which will be held here
! in November. Mr.. Hershman, when
elected, will succeed Otto A. Boyer Of
South Bend, as grand master.
apolis.-Seventy-e cadav-
erS were diSsected in Indiana in the
interests OF science in the last ~
months, the state anatomical board re-
ported at its annual meeting. The
board receives all unclaimed bodies in
the state and distributes them. Thir-
ty-four of the bodies were sent to the
Indiana Dental college and the remain
der to Indiana university. The aver
age expense attached to each body
was SIS
Washington, d. C.-Miss Katherine
Smith of Indianapolis. who has as
sumed her new duties in the woman's
, division of the department of labor, is
the first Indiana woman TO land a fed
eral position at Washington under the
! new administration.
dlDOliS.-DelWeen -,OUV anu
5000 workmen of the Marion County
Building Trades council returned TO
work as result Of the settlement OF
differences between the building
tradesmen and the Building Contract
! ors' association.
Greencastle..- have been
circulated asking Governor McCray
|, and Estes Duncan, a senator in the
Indiana general assembly. TO use their
influence not TO have the Indiana re-
formatOry. now in Jeffersonville,
placed adjacent 10 Greencastle.
ganspOrt.-Inability TO float a
bond issue of 100000 for the con.
struction of a county hospital here
probably will delay the work Of erect
ing II until 1922 according 70 the