The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-11-04
INDIANA
STATE NEWS


IndianapolIs.-The Indiana State
Association OF Township Trustees
closed its thirty-first yearly session
at indianapolis by electing the follow
ing officers: 4. d. Swope. Boone coun-
", president; Scott Brandenburgy Han
cock county. vice-president, and Joseph
NJ. Hillman, Marion county, secretary
treasurer. The resolutions adopted
declared the association TO be against
the proposed county unit in school
administration, and In favor of the
township unit as at present; enuncia-
ted the associations favor of mini
mum school term of eight months
favored the consolidation of schools
generally, and favored the general
use of the English language in schools.
public or private.
IndianapOlis.-It was decided at a
meeting of the officers of the Indiana
Audubon society, held at indianapolis.
that the bird interests of the state
could best be benefited by course in
bird study for the school children.
tribute pamphlets to the children.
Lantern slides with prepared talks
will be placed at the disposal of the
schools. on application 10 the club Sec
rotary. Plans were discussed for plac-
ing placards along the highways and
farmers will be urged TO put up signs
forbidding the destruction of birds on
their property.
Evansville,-The new government
dam on the Ohio river, II miles below
here, known as dam No. IS, has been
completed. and will be dedicated No
vember ID and turned over TO the
federal government. Work on the dam
was started more than ten years ago,
but there were many delays owing TO
sudden changes in the stages OF the
river and the inability of the contrac-
tors to get materials. The estimated
cost of the dam is 100000. 1t is one
of the largest in Western waters.
Lafayette.-Th Purdue university
agricultural experiment station will
conduct an experiment to determine
whether mOldy corn is injurious TO live
stock. Cattle and hogs will be used
in the experiment. This announce
ment was made by G.. /. Christie, di-
rector of the Station, who said that
the experiment had been planned be-
cause of the large amount of moldy
corn in Indiana this fall, due TO dam
age by the corn ear worm and weather
conditions.
Lafayette.-Hot school lunches are
being served in one or more schools in
two-thirds of the Indiana counties, ac-
c0rding 10 an estimate made by Miss
Leila Gaddis, who has charge of home
economics extension work for Purdue
university. In counties having home
demonstration agents and others with
home economics clubs the project of
serving hot lunches to boys and girls
in the country or city is being taken
| up in an organized way.
Muncie.-AlthOugh force of fed
eral prohibition officers under Bert
| Morgan, Indiana prohibition director.
and Thomas Hiatt, sheriff Of Della
| y,
10 thirty places recently where it was
suspected liquor was being kept for
sale, only eight charges were filed in
the Delaware circuit court ut Muncie
as a result of the joint raid, and only
seven of those charge violation of the
liquor laws.
IndianapOlis.-Wi the arrest of
Mrs. Amanda Miller on a charge of
having been an accessory after the
fact, the list of persons under arrest
in connection with the $4,000 hOldup
several weeks ago of the Beech Grove
State bank, in Beech Grove was in
creased 10 seven. A policeman, a for
mer policeman and the wife of one of
the accused men were arrested for
completely in the robbery.
Peru.-A real estate deal involving
consideration close 10 100000 was
closed here yesterday when Mugavin
and Bowers and their associates III
the circus business bought GOO acres
IF land, the circus winter quarters, and
the car shops for the circus, which
have been the property of the estate
of Benjamin L. Wallace.
Terre Haute-Roy Parse. age six
teen, confessed slayer of Louise VII
loughby. his seventeen-year-old sweet
heart, several weeks ago, was sen
fenced to life Imprisonment in the
state prison by Judge John Z. Jeffries
of the Vigo county Criminal court
Washington, II. CA post Office
contest of considerable proportions
was ended when Representative Will
K. Wood Of the Tenth Indiana district
selected Alfred 5. Hess to be postmas-
ter at Gary. Twelve men and one
woman took the examination
Warsaw.-Harry Long. seventeen
years Old. son of Elan Long. a farm
or near Warsaw. killed his two broth
erS, Kenneth, five years old. and Rus
sell. three years old. with an irol
pipe. The youth is believed 10 have
become demented.
Evansyille.-Corn huSking is now IL
full swing in many of the countrie:
in the pocket and farmers report they
are getting about all the men they
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