The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-02-17

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service commission for authority to
make the decrease and the commission
granted the petition forthwith. The
gas IS natural product.
Indianapolis.-The state highway
commission plans. during 1872. the
building of new bridges and the repair
of many old ones on state aid roads
at a total cost of approximately S3TO.-
600. The proposed work will be In
% state aid projects and 60 federal
aid jobs. The state aid bridge prof.
ects are situated In % counties. The
smallest project is a 16-foot span and
the largest is a 60O-foot crossing. or
about six spans.
Laporte.-The Camp Roosevelt as
7 sociatiOn of Muskegon, Mich. has
leased Interlaken school, which is
situated seven miles east of LapOrte.
and this summer will conduct a camp
| for six weeks for about ], 800 boys. ac-
cording 10 an announcement by the
commanding officer The school is
sponsored by Captain Beals. Peter A.
MortensOn, superintendent of the Chi
cage schools, and Angus Hibbard. all
of Chicago.
Lafayette.-PIans for the Purdue
Union building having been approved
by the board of governors and the
+ university trustees, contract for the
erection of the new building ON the
campus will be let in the next few
weeks The Union building, which is
/ TO be clubhouse for students and
alumni, will occupy desirable site
at the southeast corner Of the campus
and it will cost S1,2J0,00O, nearly
! $S3O,OO0 having been subscribed by
Purdue alumni n the last few years.
! 1t Is hoped 10 have the cornerstone
laying i'm Gala week" next June.
Indianapolis-"The is nothing in
the 1927 teacher pension law which
authorizes the board Of trustees of the
pension fund TO pay anything back to
teachers who have paid part of their
annual dues and then cancelled their
their teaching contracts and cease to
| be teachers. says u. =. LeSh. at
tOrney-general. in an opinion he has
submitted to the secretary of the trus-
tees board The opinion points out
that the teachers must contribute to
the fund. The law lays down certain
provisions for Withdrawal of pay
ments after one year.
RushvilIe.-The law moved swiftly
in the case of Charles Sorrell,
who WAS taken to the state prison
TO begin serving a 99-year sentence
for the murder of Fred WachendOrf,
Il policeman. The grand jury after a
short investigation returned murder
Indictment. Less than an hour later,
with only two or three courthouse at
tacheS present, Sorrell was arraigned
before Judge Sparks. He pleaded
/ guilty and was sentenced Immediately.
| Sorrell killed the policeman because
of grudge over Wachendorfs sue
cess III getting the patrolman's job
which he desired.
Indianapolis-Leo Todd, work
man, is entitled to keep S1.32J III gold
which he found while digging Il cellar
on i farm in Henry county, accord
/ ing 10 Il decision of the Appellate
court sustaining the judgment of The
Henry circuit court. Claya Freeman
Nickery, administrator of the estate Of
/ Henry C.. Freeman. to whom the farm
belonged before il was bought by
Hardin. brought suit to obtain the
money. Hardin also claimed the treas
ure. The court found that the de-
cision of the lower court in awarding
the money to the workman was equi-
table.
indianapolis months of steady
work for ] 900 men will be provided by
the proposed building program of the
state board of agriculture calling for
the expenditure of S350,000 IT, $500.
eco. according To the, secretary of the
board. Work Will begin March - and
continue until mid-August or early
September. Definite announcement of
the boards plans have been withheld
pending the closing of the S1,O00,000
bond sale by the board which would
provide funds for the building prof
/ ttl>. L lt lcutdliNt Dlu u Il NiItaSo
company, offering a premium for the
bonds. has been accepted. Three new
buildings and one big addition is the
proposed building program designed
10 give Indiana an up-to-date plant
for holding the state fairs.
IndianapOlis-A United States cen
sus report. as quoted in Indiana pa
perS. which valued the products from
mines. quarries and wells in Indiana
during a year at S52,S40. go, is de-
/ cidedly unfair 10 the state because il
represents only about half the value
of such mineral products. DR.. w y.
Logan. state geolOgiSt Of the cOnServa-
ton department. said. Doctor Logan
pointed out that in 1920 Indiana pro
duced about 80. 10000 tons of coal
( This coal had value of ut least 81
ton ut the mine. making the total
value of Indiana coal for that year
$50. $4,000. which is considerably in
excess of the sum given by the census
report as representing the total value
of all products from mines, quarrieS
and wells i'm Indiana. In 1920 Indiana
produced 10. 100000 barrels of cement
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