The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-06-16

Wis uutuoIlbtA ny thF Interstate COM |
u.erce commission 10 abandon opera
ton Of the Chicago AMI Indiana coal |
railway division OF the Chicago and |
Eastern Illinois railroad. as 10 inter
state and foreign commerce. The line
which will be abandoned has CO miles
OF main track running from Brazil TO
La Crosse, Ind, with a branch IRON
the latter point 10 the Indiana-IiIinOis
state line. Ii passes through forty
eight towns and villages. thirty-two
OF which are not served by any ether
railroad. There are grain elevators ut
twenty-nine stations. Vigorous pro-
tests against the proposed abandon
NEXT were lodged with the commission
by individuals corporations and or
CARNATIONS
IndanapOliS.-The same tax ap-
praisement level that was applied last
year to properties appraised by the
state tax board of tax commissioners
prevails, generally speaking, this year,
il was said in the boards office at the
close of the 1920 appraising period.
Reductions and Increases have been
made, but totals for different classes
of property under the boards sole
taxing Jurisdiction will be about the
same as last year, il was said.
The board appraises about one-sixth
of the taxable property in the state.
The other five-siXths are expected to
show considerable shrinkage, accord
ing TO advance reports received from
appraising officers. Complete figures
have not yet been prepared by the
board
encaStle.-Farmers whose land
adjOins the national road through Put
nam county. are anXiously waiting COM
pletion of the brick paving work which
now is well under way under the su.
pervision of the state highway commits
sion. Farmers whose land ADULTS Ibis
road already are talking of the n-
creased property values as a result of
the new road One farmer who owns
three-Quarters of mile fronting on the
new road says his lane will be eI-
HANGED at least $40 an acre by the inn
prOyement.
chancellor Of the University of Montana
at Helena, has been selected as pTesi-
dent Of Purdue university at Lafayette.
A meeting of the board of trustees of
the institution was recently held 10 act
| formally on the recommendation of a
special committee. which coz sidered
various educators Doctor Elliott is to
I oil no Of W II -.
was killed last summer in fall while
on mountain climbing trip in the Ca
madam Rockies.
Indianapolis.-Th suit of George
w. Hereth TO compel the state board
for the registration of professional
engineers and land surveyors 10 grant
him a license. under the 1921 registra-
ton law, is intended as the test suit
of which the indianapolis chapter Of
the American Association of Engineers
recently has been talking, it is under
stood at the office of the board 1t was
brought through the attorney and
member of the chapters executive
committee.
Michigan City.-Mabel Donovan. sew
| enteen, has appealed to the authOri-
ties that her father be executed in
the electric chair. He is William +.
Donovan, under sentence to die the
night of June l in the Michigan City
prison for the murder of his wife Fol-
lowing the unusual request Of The girl,
Donovan has given up all hope of q
reprieve. a death watch was placed.
HuntingtOn.-G. II. Hackett. age
twenty-eight, pitcher for the Hunting
ton Specials baseball team, was found
dead in the bathroom at the home Of
Mrs. Sarah C. VanCamp, in Hunting
ton where he lived. 1t is thought he
had been dead for about twelve hours
as he had gone TO his room soon after
the end of twelve-inning game with
MentOne, in which he worked.
MoOresville.-A large barn on the
farm Of Eli White, three and One-half
miles southwest of Mooresville, was
destroyed by fire of undetermined
origin. Three horses, two mules,
valuable bull and a calf, together with
800 bushels of corn, ten tons of hay,
milking machine and several farm
implements, also were burned. The
! loss is estimated at $4,000
RichmOnd.-C. Francis jenkins, a
native of Richmond, inventor OF the
motion picture machine, and the man
who gave the first motion picture ex-
hibit, June 6. 1894. in a Richmond
jewelry store, has perfected a device
for transmitting motion pictures by
radio, says dispatch received from
Washington, d. c., where the Hoosier
inventor now resides.
Evansville. Practically all the
wheat in Vanderburg county is headed
according to the marketing ags-t for
the farmers of the county. About one
fifth of the spring blowing has been
completed. Some of the farmers are
working in the fields at night by the
light of their tractors in breaking their
ground for corn planting
Fit. Wayne.-F. Guy Sprague, a
broker. who went into bankruptcy sew
eral months ago, was indicted by the
Allen county grand jury on a charge
of embezZlement. At the time of the