The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-09-23

'"'Aitt W buy seven lHufdId pubic
utilities and for authority TO issue a
total of So. 100000 stocks. bonds and
notes with which to finance the pur-
chase and 10 assume a total OF ST.
962. 900 liens against two of the selling
companies! In denying the petition
the commission said that while II Is
favorably inclined toward the petI-
toner's project proposing a central
lied power plant i'm the heart of the
Indiana coal field to provide electric
power to distant places. IL such a pro-
ject could be made TO provide low-cost
current, yet il is of the opinion that
such project could not be carried
out along the lines proposed by the
petitioner.
Indianapolis.-Two state institutions
and two state departments have run
between $4,000 and $4,000 short OF
the sum needed 10 get them through
the state fiscal year which will end
September 80. Many other depart
ments would have run short had not
the last legislature made special APP
preparations The state board OF
finance has helped the Institutions out
by permitting them to draw on their
next years appropriation TO meet the
shortage. Governor McCray has helped
the departments by keeping them up
out of the $4,000 provided for him
by the legislature for making salary
adjustments this fiscal year. The pres
ent fiscal year covers parts of two adj
ministrations.
ConnerSvile.-Me of the In
diana conference OF the Methodist
Episcopal church ut its ninetieth an
nual meeting in Connersville numbered
21,116, ii is announced by confer
ence officers. The Hoosier conference
includes the central and southern
/ parts of the state, the remainder Of
the state being divided into two other
conferences. Mrs. Il. +. Adams Of
Bloomington. conference treasurer an
| nounced that the total amount Of
money raised for general religious pur-
poses by the conference amounted to
S64.673.44, an increase of S13.3S0 over
the preceding year. This sum does
not include local expenditures of the
various churches.
WarSaw.-The trial of Fred Decker,
| charged with the murder of LEROY Low
EFT, age twenty. of Elkhart. March -.
will be held in the Whitley Circuit
| court ut Columbia City. The case was
sent to Whitley county OH Il change Of
venue granted by Judge l.. w. Royse,
on petition of Fred Decker. Calvin
| Decker, Il brother. also is CHARGED with
the murder. hut he has asked for no
change of venue. Virgil Decker. an
other brother, was found guilty of MUIR
der by jury last spring. and is Serv-
ing life sentence i'm the Indiana State
prison at Michigan City.
HammOnd.-Two men were killed
and three badly injured when a pas
senger train struck an automobile near
st. John. The dead are George 10th,
! fifty. and John Nemez. fifty, both IF
Whiting. The injured are: John Po-
tasniak. fifteen. driver of the automo-
bile; Mike POtasniak, forty-fivc, both
of Whiting and John Shimko. forty,
Pittsburgh, Pa. The boy drove the
machine onto the crossing or az in
clined curve i'm front of the train:
Washington, -. Census reports
of industry in Indiana for 1919 show
that there were 7.91S establishments
with Il capital of 81, 335. S51 900. Per-
sons engaged totaled 329.237. and SAL
aries and wages aggregated $402 209.-
600. The value Of products was given
as 81 ,901, $4,000. This represented "A
gain from 1914 of 100 per cent. Wages.
which aggregated S317 ,0S0,000. showed
an increase of 165 per cent from five
| years before.
MOnticellO.-As the result Of Il Wig
orOus drive made by the White County
Taxpayers Protective association. re-
Gently organized, on the White county
board of commissioners and the White
county council. the free gravel road
repair fund has been reduced for the
year 1922 from Is cents on the 500
To 10 cents. This will decrease the
| amount i'm the road repair fund from
about $4,000 to $4,000.
Lebanon.-The boys live stock iudg-
ing team Of Boone county. which won
! first hOnorS at the Indiana state fair
this year. has been notified by the In
diana State Dairy association that it
has been selected to represent Indiana
il. the boys and girls judging contest
at the meeting of the National Dairy
association at st. Paul. MINI.
JefferSOnville.-The enrolment on
the opening day of the Jeffersonville
public schools was 1,7S5. which was the
largest ever recorded for the opening
day. The high school enrolled 425. and
this also is a new record. There are
in addition about 400 children in the
parOchial schools conducted by the two
Catholic churches in Jeffersonville.
Washington. ID. C.-Appointees as
acting poStmasters i'm Indiana include
| Kent \. Brewer, at Greenwood. and
Joseph \. Spears at LoogoOtee. James
| ". Hughes has been appointed post
master AT Helmsburg. and Charlotte
Bruce at Kelp. both in Brown county.
Henryville.-Jacob Hartman age
eighty. and his wife, Malinda, age sew
enty-three. farmers and pioneer resi-
/ dents of Clark county, are dead at