The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-07-22

dianapolis.-Protest against the
proposed abandonment Of the Chicago
and Indiana division OF the Chicago &
Eastern ILLINOIS railroad has been filed
with the Interstate commerce commits
\ sion by the public service commission.
I The road. which is a coal line. op-
crates in ten counties of northwestern
Indiana. The protest filed with the
I federal commission was prepared by
| \. Il. Cronk. chief OF the traffic divi-
/ sion of the Indiana COMMISSION. The
/ protest declares there is sufficient
/ traffic available TO make the operation
of the road profitable TO the con-
| trolling company. Petition for author
ity TO discontinue the operation of the
road was filed with the federal COM
mission several days ago. The COM
pany is seeking To abandon the line
on the ground that its operation Is not
II, profitable.
lndianapolis.-A grade OF 100 per
cent on an examination for positions
as truant officers throughout the state,
conducted recently, was attained by
eight persons, l.. n. Hines, superin-
tendent of public instruction, an
nounced. On the same examination
one man received grade of zero,
due. according 10 Mr. Hines, 10 the
unintelligibility of his manuscript.
Those receiving the high grades were
II. l.. Kegerreis, Blackford county;
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Warner, Montgomery county; Della r.
Mcdonald, Dekalb county; Mrs Eva
Green. Noble county; Alyse Willow
WansborOugh, Porter county; Luther
Land, ST. Joseph county, and Eugene
G. Splitter, Wayne county.
Indianapolis. T. Jones OF
Terre Haute was elected president of
the Indiana branch of the United Ma
tiOnal Association of Post Office
Clerks, at the twentieth annual con-
vention held recently in indianapolis.
He succeeds III. A. Blackman Of Ma
riOn. Other officers elected were:
John l.. Lott of Richmond. first vice
president; Charles NJ. Harlan, KO-
komo. second vice president; Miss
Marion LantZ. indianapolis, secretary,
and \. p. Snyder. Charlottesville,
treasurer Minot Cleveland of An
derson was again selected rs chair
man of the organization committee.
Terre Haute was chosen as the con-
vention city for next year
AndersOn.-The Indiana Federation
of Postal Employees, whose fourth an
nual convention was held here, de-
cided To change the date of its con-
ventionS, alternating with Labor day
and independence day. Fort Wayne
was chosen for the fifth annual meet
ing in 1929 on Labor day The Labor
day meeting will he compliment TO
organized labor, the Federation OF
Postal Employees being affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
George W. Worthington of Evansville
was reelected president.
KokOmo-A delegation of mer-
chants. farmers, motorists and others
met with the county commissioners in an
effort To ascertain why Howard cOun-
~ does not have better roads Ac-
cordng to the chairan of the good
roads committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, $4,000 is paid annually
by taxpayers of the county for road
repair work and yet the complaint is
general that the county has the poor
est roads in this part of the state. 1t
is said $4,000 is needed for road
building equipment.
lRichmond-While losses to Wayne
county farmers from chinch bugs may
reach 100000 ii is estimated that
several times that sum has been saved
to farmers aS result Of the vigorous
war waged on the crop pests, accord
ing to the Wayne county agricultural
agent, and his assistants Since June
90. when the insects appearance was
first noted i'm Wayne county. crops on
approximately 100 farms have been
damaged.
Indianapolis.-Offici of the state
90 L. the First. Second. Third and
Fourth congressional districts in the
next tive weeks To give tue county
superintendent and township trustees
information concerning state financial
aid for poor schools. the new state at
tendance law and the new classical
ton of grade and high schools.
IndianapOlis.-On the teachers pen
sion fund board the governor has APP
pointed Thomas G. Howe of IndianapO-
lis. To serve for one year; James NJ.
LOrimer, Anderson. two years; Don
aid Dushane. Columbus. three years !;
Florence Case, Marion, and Eben III.
Wolcott. indianapolis. four years.
Washington. u. ca drop of 40
per cent. for the year ending June 10
i'm the cost of food in Indianapolis.
and of ! per cent for the month end
ing June -. is shown in reports COM
piled by the department of labor For
the year Indianapolis led the field,
Kansas City being next. with 3S per
cent.
Indianapolis.-Wh Whether the state
board of tax commissioners shall order
horizontal tax appraisement increases
or decreases in Indiana counties is
TO come up for determination at six