The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-09-02
IN DIANA
BREVITIES

aShlngTOn. ID. C.-1nree lnulana
postmasters have been reapp0inted as
follows Edward II. Spolr. James
town; Charles H. Oldenburg. The
nomination of Lyman II. Rainforth
TO be postmaster Ut Leavenworth.
has been confirmed by the senate. The
Post Office department has asked the
civil service commission 10 hold ex-
aminations for the selection of post
masters at Bryant and ST. Mary of the
Woods. Representative Dunbar of the
Third Indiana district recommended
the appointment of Mrs. Mollie T..
Askten to be postmaster at French
Lick. As the only woman among the
eight candidates. Mrs. Askten. who is
assistant postmaster, obtained the
highest grade at examination. The Of
flee pays $500 year.
Indianapolis.-Go McCray is
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of extend
ing the activities of the state purchas-
ing committee, of which Fred II. Rob-
inson, formerly one of the governors
campaign managers, is secretary. If
the committee agrees, the plan will be
tried out in connection with the new
board Of trustees which the governor
recently appointed for the Indiana
State Soldiers home at Lafayette,
and which has building project in
hand at the home The committee is
10 meet soon and the governor and
y II Il
with it. Thus far the committee has
limited its work To the purchase of
groceries and common institution sup
plies.
Lafayette.-A yield of 90 tons or
more an acre from tract of one and
One-half acres Of tomatoes, is indicat-
ed by pickings up TO the present. This
Is the remarkable yield obtained on a
plot being grown by the agricultural
experiment station of Purdue univer-
times the average yield obtained by
thousands of Indiana tomato growers.
A tomato-breeding experiment has been
In progress several years at the ex-
pertinent station, in order to improve
the tomato canning crop of this state,
not only in quality, but also quantity.
NOblesville.-GoOd prices are being
paid for products which are being
sold at the many farm sales being
held in central Indiana at present.
Prices for good cows range from 500
10 S125. Corn in the field is bringing
SIT TO $50 an acre, and good feeding
Shoats are selling as high as 20 cents
pound. An average price for tim
being attended by large crowds, and
at times the bidding is spirited.
Knox.-W j. Reed, attorney for
Cecil Burkett, age eleven, charged
{, with the murder of Bonnie Slavin, age
seven, of Ora, announced that the
state would try the boy for the second
time in Circuit court here i'm October
The Burkett boy was tried several
months ago on charge of first degree
murder, but the jury failed TO reach
an agreement. Many letters have been
received by the states attorney pro
testing against a second trial.
Indianapolis. Additional county
chairmen and organizations aiding
ISOLATION in its campaign for ratifica-
ton OF the ninth amendment, which
proposes 10 take politics from the
states common school system by max
ing the office of state superintendent
of public instruction appointive instead
of elective, have been announced by
the director of the associations cam
paign.
JeffersOnville. - Persons from this
city who have made motor trips report
that fine watermelons in the vicinity
of Seymour are being sold COR cents
each and choice cantaloupes at the
rate of seven for % cents. Thousands
of melons are in the fields going tC
waste because freight rates are toe
high 10 ship them. Every farmhouse
has waysde market where water
melons and cantaloupes are piled high
Danville.-Richard Sommerville. age
seventy-two, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by Andrew Bales. age
seventy. at North Salem. Bales is be
ing held in the Hendricks county jail
here and is believed to be mentally ir
responsible. Jealousy is given as the
cause of the tragedy. Bales is said tC
have imagined SOmmerville had sup
planted him in the affections of Bales
wife.
AndersOn.-Bond issues for road i'm
provement in Madison county thus far
this year approximate an expenditure
of 81. 039 800. a summary at the Office
of the county auditor showed. Data
was sought by persons who said they
believed II was time for the county
council and the county commissioners
to put a check on road construction
for this year.
Culver = American Legion state
headquarters added $1,000 TO its funds
for pushing the campaign in behalf OF
disabled veterans by the exhibition
given in Culver by the cadets of the
Culver Summer schools who repeated
the program which they presented al
the Pageant of Progress in Chicago
Muncie.-Joseph d. O'Neill. com