The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-12-09

Indianapols.-The question OF The
status OF representation CT fifteen coun-
ties in the legislature If Governor
McCTay should call special session,
as proposed, Is a subject of discussion
in the statehOuSe. Since the last ses-
sion the governor has appointed. APP
proved the appointment Of. or caused
TO be appointed, four senators and
two representatives 10 other places ON
the state pay roll. One representative
has landed a job on the federal pay
roll and another is dead. Whether
acceptance of another job on the
state pay roll or federal pay roll in
validates tenure as assemblyman is
question some are asking. 1t is
question apart from the question Of
whether under the constitution an as
semblyman can be appointed To n
job the legislature created while he
was part of the body. The as
semblymen and counties i'm question
are Cecil c. Tague. senator for Frank
lin. Jennings. Ripley and Union coun-
ties; Maurice Douglas. senator for
Shelby and Bartholomew Estes Dun
can. senator for Putnam and Mont
gomery; Roscoe Kiper, senator for
Warrick and Yanderburg; Chester a.
Davis, representative for Jay county;
Ray V. Gibbons, representative for
Upton and Madison; Rev William r.
Jinnett, representative for Rush
John f. Mcclure, representative for
Madison.
indianapolis. Automobile license
stations will be opened in 20 Indiana
cities December l., where automobile
owners may apply for 1922 licenses and
license plates without having 10 make
application 10 the secretary of states
Office. More than 10000 automobile
owners in Indiana are expected 10 APP
ply for licenses and plates 10 these
license stations. The stations Will be
operated by the HoOsier State AutOmo-
bile association, but will be under the
direct supervision of the secretary Of
states Office. The cities in which the
license stations will be established
follow: Hammond. Gary, Elkhart.
Logansport. Lafayette. KokOmO, Ma
rion, Muncie, Richmond Terre Haute,
Vincennes, Evansville, New Albany,
Jacksonville. Anderson, Laporte and
Bedford. Licenses will be issued at
the stations only when automobile
owners apply in person and present
their certificates of title for vertical
ton
South Bend.-A movement was start
ed here 10 bring farmers TO a realiza-
ton that ii would be profitable To
take up the raising of fruit on more
intensive scale. The movement was
the result Of the report of the United
States census. which shows that the
number of fruit-bearing trees and
shrubs in St Joseph county dropped
from 1856 in 1909 TO 94,I9S in 1919.
In conducting the investigation, COM
PARSONS were made with the fruit
growing county of Berrien, Mich,
where the fruit trees and shrubs have
increased from 969. 406 to 2,207 $50 in
the same period. Climate and soil and
other conditions in ST. Joseph county
are similar TO those OF Berrien coun-
ty. The only fruit TO show an increase
in the county is the grape.
Indanapols.-N terms Of
the Supreme and Appellate courts will
continue until May %, 1922 Justice
Louis Il, Ewbank of indianapolis be-
comes chief justice OF the Supreme
court, succeeding Justice Howard l..
Townsend. Judge +. \. Dausman OF
Goshen becomes chief judge of the
Appellate court and also presiding
judge Oft second division. He sue
ceeds Judge Scion a Enloe as chief
judge and y. l.. Nichols OF Winchester
as presiding judge for the second d.
vision.
ianapolis.-Accused of classifying
accounts Of the Beech Grove State
bank so as to cover shortages amount
ing TO more than $1,000, Henry Sheen
rock. fOrty-fve years old. cashier,
was arrested on an affidavit filed by
Jeremiah Gray, president. He was
placed i'm the Marion county Jail ON a
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses His bond was fixed at SlO,-
COO. Charles W. Camp, state bank eX-
aminer, ordered the bank closed fol-
lowing an examination of the books.
Shelbyville-Frank Lux. a son OF
Peter J. Lux, Shelby corn champion,
was the winner of the boys one-acre
corn contest in the district, and for the
corn show held here. Young Lux pro-
duced 101.6 bushels VI corn on his
acre of ground, ar a cost of 34.7
cents a bushel. Glen Phares, who won
second place in the show, had the
highest yield Of any boy in the coun-
". He grew 1856 bushels on his acre,