The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-10-14


diana Tie company in this city. began
operations with a full force of EN-
ployees. Business is showing a big
+ Improvement. according To the man.
ager.
New Albany.-Company b, One Hun
dred Fifty-second infantry. Indiana
National Guard. with 50 members. was
sworn into service at New Albany. The
company will receive its full equipment
within the next 30 days
Frankfort.-Construct of 20
target rifle range, TO be built at The
expense Of the federal government at
an approximate cost Of $4,000 will
+, be started within n few days at Low
er's Leap" three miles northwest Of
,ere. according to Mai. w. p. Mont
gomery of the One Hundred and
Fiftysecond infantry. Indiana Ma
rional Guard.
Fairmount.-Corn In Grant county
has ripened unusually early. Many
fields are now ready To be gathered
Sugar beets are ripening slowly The
/ rains have damaged the tomato crop.
/ causing the fruit 10 rot on the vines.
/ Growers for the Fairmount chill sauce
/ factory report the season the least
/ profitable for years. Hog cholera has
! appeared in the neighborhood of Fair
/ mount
Lafayette. Purdue university's
/ team, which competed in the swine
Ind ncf NJ nj
/ swine show ut Peoria. ILL.,. won fourth
! place with 3.213 points. The Univer-
/ sity Of Nebraska. with 3.400 points,
was first. Ohio State university was
second. and Iowa was third. The same
team will represent Purdue at the
national live stock show 1T Chicago,
which will be held i'm November.
Indianapolis.-The Indiana League
of Women Voters, with $4,000 deficit.
as the result of its campaign to OBJ
tain adoption of constitutional amend
ment No. ], urges its members to
wipe out this deficit by November 1.
IN n special message to league Off
GERS. The message says that the cam
paign for the amendment cost the
league nearly $1,000 Prominent men
i'm the state have contributed $40,
the bulletin says, and the leagues are
asked to raise the remainder
Noblesville.-Special Judge Robinson
of Frankfort, presiding i'm the case ar
fecting the dredging of Cicero creek i'm
the northern part of Hamilton county,
and the central and south parts of Tip
ton county, has made an order for the
work to be done. The estimated cost
| of the Improvement, one of the largest
undertaken I'm central Indiana In sew
eral years, is $120O0O 1t will drain
hundreds of acres of land in the two
counties, and especially afford better
drainage system for the city of Upton.
The werk. 1t is expected, will be start
ed In the spring.
Indianapclis.-B. J. Burris state SUI
perintendent of public instruction, said
that it seems probable that the state
board Of education will not curtail
vocational education fund expendi-
lures in such a way as to eliminate
any county agricultural agent, as had
been thought possible. He said that
The budget for the agents for the Is
months ending December 81, 1922. of
: approximately 100000. may be re-
duced to approximately $4,000, but
that the reduction will come on other
expenses and not off the salaries OF
the agents. He said it would be i'm
| possible to appoint additional AGENTS.
! There are agents In all but six or
eight counties" he SAID
Elkhart.-The sixty-first annual two
day state convention of the Indiana
branch of the National Horse Thief
! Detective association came TO q close
here following an executive session at
! which the present officers were re-
elected with one exception. Logans-
/ port was chosen as the 1922 cOnven-
ton city. The association. by an over
whelming vote. decided to Patain its
old name. The officers reelected are:
President. Dora A. Pence of Sway
see: vice president, William d. Rob-
insOn of Versailles; secretary. George
4. Stilwell of Ladoga treasurer. b.
! b. Hostetter of RoachGale captain II.
s. Talbot Gf Charlottesville The sec
retary'S report showed q total men,
berShip of 10000 in the state.
GOshen.--Acting Judge Aaron s.
ZoOk in juvenile court here failed TO
rule specifically on the issue whether,
under the Indiana school attendance
law a child between the ages of seven
| and sixteen years can be compelled to
attend school until the age of sixteen
years is reached providing. at an
earlier age he had been. graduated
from the eighth grade. the highest
school in his district. John Ummel,
a farmer. and his son, John r. UNI
mel, fifteen years old, were prosecut-
ed under TIE truancy law. The son
graduated from the eighth grade
school. took the eighth grade work
second time and is willing to do il
again but will not consent to being
transferred TO the Elkhart high school
or any other high school The court
found for the defendants on the show
ing that Ummel had not refused TO
send the boy 10 school within the
school district as alleged in the affi-