The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-06-03

Petersburg. hundred ami nf,y
AngOra goats were received ar Hart
well recently by the Hartwell Mining
company. The goats were bought in
Kansas City 10 be turned !0oSe on the
property OF the n ming company. con-
sisting Of severa thousand acres Of
coal land in sOu' bern Pike county,
much Of which j. growing sasSafras.
small sprouts and trees The goats
will be pastuTed on the property in
an effort TO kill the sprouts and sas-
sasfras. Hundreds OF acres OF this
land can be reclaimed If can be
cleared without too great an expense
70 the mining company. and the goats
were obtained TO do the work Of men
in the clearing.
indianapolis. Hayden Stedner,
about sixty-fve years old. was in
stantIy killed and his grandson, Harry
Black, twelve years old. was injured,
perhaps fatally, when Stedner's auto
mobile was struck by q 3. & o. train
teen years old. was killed and Ida
Wolfe. seventeen; Margaret Wolfe,
sixteen, and Steve Waite were in
jured seriously when an automobile
in which they were riding fell through
a bridge on the Liberty trail near
Michigan City,
Noblesville.-E. E. ClOe. judge of
the Hamilton circuit court. appointed
the Wainwright Trust company as re-
ceiver for the G. W. Booth Farm Sup
ply company. which has stores in No
bleSville, Westfield, Arcadia and At
lanta. The appointment was made on
a petition fled by the Eastern Rock Is
land Plow company of indianapolis.
which has a claim OF $4,000 against
the company. During the trial few
days ago it developed that the in
debtedness of the company amounted
to $4,000.
IndianapOlis.-Re for
the appointment of committee from
the Indiana Federation of Farmers
Associations TO investigate the de-
VI ONHNAAA-iS LNAlACSSCC llilOo-
phate lands 10 the extent of about
1000 acres will be made to the execu-
tive committee If the federation by
the president OF the organization, il
was announced. The question was
discussed at a meeting of the direct
ors recently and referred to the ex-
ecutive committee.
South Bend.-SpontaneOus cOmbus-
ton or a spark from a passing loco
, motive, it is believed, started fire
5 which did S250,000 damage at South
: Bend. The fire started in the South
Bend grain elevator, where nearly 200,-
900 bushels of coffee is stored spread
f to the Grand Trunk docks and to sew
eral office buildings and residences
} Trains on the Grand Trunk and New
York Central roads were delayed be-
! cause intense heat melted and twisted
, the rails.
napolis.-George f. Hershman
of Crown Point. deputy grand master
/ of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, hide
! pendent Order of Odd Fellows. was
, nominated grand master at the eighty
fifth semi-annual communication at
: indianapolis. He will be elected for
: mally at the next semi-annual COM
t in November. Mr.. Hershman, when
J elected. will succeed Otto A. Boyer of
I South Bend. as grand master.
S napOlis.-Seventy-e cadav-
erS were dissected in Indiana in the
: interests Of science in the last II
4 months. the state anatomical board re.
: ported at itseannual meeting. The
, board receives all unclaimed bodies in
I the state and distributes them Thir-
5 ty-four of the bodies were sent TO the
: Indiana Dental college and the remain.
der to Indiana university. The aver
2 age expense attached TO each body
p was S1S
Washington, d. C.-Miss Katherine
Smith Of indianapolis, who has as
: sumed her new duties in the woman's
e division of the department of labor, /:
: the first Indiana woman TO land a fed
j eral position at Washington under the
5 new administration.
-,OO duI
5000 workmen Of the Marion County
y Building Trades council returned L
! work as a result of the settlement OF
differences between the building
: tradesmen and the Building Contract
! ors' association.
,, Greencastle..-Petiti have beer
= circulated asking Governor McCray
= and Estes Duncan, a senator in the
Indiana general assembly. to use theil
= influence not TO have the Indiana re
. formatOry now in Jacksonville
: placed adjacent to Greencastle.
= Logansport.-Inabilit TO float 8
bond issue OF 100000 for the con
j., struction of county hospital here
. probably will delay the work of erect
ing 1t until 1922. according TO th'