The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-23
News
RreVitieS
From Indiana


the national organization has Endorsed.
Salem.-The large dairy barn be-
longing to Roscoe Morris, just south of
this city, was destroyed by fire. Twen-
ty-One valuable dairy COWS and four
horses persisted. Rescuers were able
TO get only one horse from the barn.
! The loss is estimated at $4,000, with
| $1,000 insurance.
COlumbus.-An effort TO obtain full
cooperation between farmers and city
business men is being made in a cam
palgn for new members for the Column
bus Chamber of Commerce. Eleven
teams of workers were appointed and
they are making Il canvass of Column
/ bus and Bartholomew county.
Indanapolis-A new device, known
rs core drilling machine, TO test the
/ quality and quantity of materials used
in road-building construction In Indi-
ana, has been bought by the state high
way commission. The machine is the
first of its kind brought to Indiana.
The machine is used for boring out
core in a completed pavement. where
there is a question about the materi-
ais used In the construction.
Sentences ranging from
two years in the federal prison at
Leavenworth 10 one day in jail were
imposed by Judge A. T. Anderson in
the federal court at indianapolis on 10
OF the 46 Muncie residents charged
with conspiracy TO violate the federal
prohibition law The defendants not
| sentenced are those serving prison
sentences on other charges or those
not arrested or whose cases were dis
! missed.
Ft. Magnetic make Ft. Wayne n
healthier and happier city in which
TO live" John b. FRANKIE and his wife.
Amelia FRANKIE. have presented to the
city of FIT. Wayne an S0-acre tract of
land lying north of the city. TO be used
for park purposes. The git has been
formally accepted by the board of park
commissioners. 1t will be known as
the John Il. FRANKIE park. The ground
includes the Kreager-Wallace woods.
|
characterization county's hos
pital board has voted to make a condi-
tiOnal award of the contract for build
ing the proposed county hospital ar
! Clinton on q bid of S11S,4S3 for the
general contract. and the heating and
plumbing for So, 200 The award is ON
condition that approximately $4,000
be raised within a month by coal %
orators interested in the Clinton coal
field. or by other citizens TO provide
the rest of the money needed.
Columbus.-Kentucky, famous as
tobacco-grO state. must yield its
laurels to Brown county. Indiana, as
producer of the choicest long brown
leaves. according to G. w. Camden,
Brown county tobacco grower. Several
trucklOadS of choice tobacco grown i'm
Brown county were shipped to Mad
lSOn for sale. The discovery of a soil
in Brown county said TO be better than
that of Kentucky for tobacco raising
was made by Camden. a Kentuckian
himself.
Indianapolis.-The Indiana Supreme
court has taken judicial cognizance of
the intoxicating properties of the liquor
called white mule" i'm affirming the
conviction in the Marion county Grim
inaI court Of Tommy Hogan. charged
with unlawful possession of intOXicGt-
ing liquor. Hogan appealed from the
lower courts decision. setting out,
among other things. that there was no
evidence that the liquOr-Of the white
mule variety, according To evidence
was intoxicating. The Supreme court
opinion said. in conclusion: Evidence
that the liquor was white mule whis-
ky sufficiently establishes the fact that
it was Intoxicating. The court has
judicial knowledge that whisky is in
toxicating"
IndianapoliS.-A total of 49,. GIG Ii
census were issued 10y the automobile
division of the secretary of states office
this year rs compared with Sol. 81
last year. an increase Of 67,975. it was
announced The department has dis
continued the issuing Of 1921 licenses
and began the past week 70 fill app1i-
cations for licenses for1922 The fig
ures show 357.023 passenger ears in
the state. or one for every eight per-
sons. The number Of passenger cars
licensed this year is an increase of
56.799 over 1920 when licenses were
issued to owners of 300,226 passenger
automobiles; an increase of 10. S36
trucks i'm use in the state was record
ed. total of 1877 truck licenses be-
Ing issued this year as compared to
%. 4S1 for last year.
Austin.-The Austin State bank was
entered and Il safe was blown and
robbed. Two hundred dollars in cash
was taken from the safe. but an inside
,auIt was not entered. Safety deposit
boxes netted the robbers more than
$1,000 in Liberty bonds and other val
uables. Postage stamps deposited by
tho postmaster were also taken.
Terre Haute-The organization OF
? The Viso County Truck and Fruit as
sociation mas been completed. The
chief purposes are 10 better gardening
? and marketing conditions and 10 pro