The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-04-07
INDIANA
State News

acts. he held. are unconstitutional
and the ruling affects the election Of
both senators and representatives in
the states general assembly. A
similar ruling recently was made in
The Johnson Circuit court al Frank.
lin, in which the acts also were held
unconstitutional, but II applied only
TO the election of representatives. as
no senator was to be chosen In that
district this year. Judge Walker.
however, declined TO issue a mandate
providing that election Of senators
and representatives this fall be held
under the apportionment of 1915. The
state as defendant will appeal the
case 10 the Indiana Supreme court.
indianapolis. The unemployment
situation jim many of the cities in In
diana seems to be on the mend. says a
report for the latter part of March,
made public by Evans WOOllen, re-
gional director for Indiana of the Presi-
dents conference committee on I'M
employment, of which Herbert Hoover
is chairman. Reports TO the regional
director from the mayors and other Of
icials of many Indiana cities and from
Investigators ent out by the Washing
ton headquarters of the committee, in
dicated that in few places is the I'M
employment situation as acute as il
was in December. In some places there
are indications that industry is resum-
ing Its prewar stride. Reports from
Muncie, for example. say that city
us almost back 10 prewar conditions"
Indianapolis.-The total assessed
valuation Of taxable property in the
city of Indianapolis for the year 1921.
taxable I'm 1922, is 1892. 1890, ac-
c0rding to a certified statement re-
ceived by the business director of the
indianapolis school city. from the
county auditor. This is approximate
ly $~7,S00,0O0 higher than the estimat-
ed total given by the auditor last fall,
and on which the 1922 tax levies for
the city and school city were based,
so that the total tax receipts OF both
the city and school city this year will
be appreciably higher than the off
Nidi i1u ~tAUGIltu. LIE liEtlti lOlul
valuation also increases the bonding
power of each unit approximately
$4,000.
BraZil-Sunday blue laws are being
rigidly enforced at the mining town of
Staunton. \ newly organized unit of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union recently started a campaign
which resulted i'm the stopping eff
public card games. The town board
also has posted notices that all persons
following their usual avOcatiOns on
Sunday will be arrested. The confec-
tioneries, drug stores and soda foun-
tains have been ordered closed on Sun
day.
Shelbyville. - Shelby county wool
growers have agreed TO pool their
spring clip this year, as was done last
year. and to ship to a warehouse at
Columbus, O.. for sale. Indiana wool
last year was moved from farm TO
manufacturer at a cost of 80 cents
a pound, according TO Claude Harper
of Purdue, who spoke at the Shelby
County Wool Producers meeting held
recently. He said that approximate
ly one-third of the Indiana wool clip
was pooled last year. and that the
profit 10 the farmers was about
$4,000.
Terre Haute.-The Vigo County
Farmers association has Joined
numerous other organizations. incIud-
ing the rural and city mail carriers,
the Central Labor union, United Mins
Workers Of America and other unions
in opposing the adoption of the day
light saving plan by the Terre Haute
city council. \ resolution opposing
this plan was adopted by the associa-
ton of this county.
Indianapolis.+A decrease i'm the
tuberculosis death rate for each 1000
persons in Indianapolis from 2.31 in
1900 to 1.22 in 1921. is accounted for
by the fight on tuberculosis during
the twenty-five years, DR.. Herman G..
Morgan. secretary of the city health
board, says.
Fort Wapne.-D. Lafayette Beaber.
seventy-seven years old, Junior vice
department commander of the Indiana
G.. A. r.. is dead at the home of his
daughter. Mrs. Theodore Kayser.
here.
Valparaiso.-Porter COUNT farmers
will purchase a carload of certified
seed potatoes this ear Last year
many bushels were planted in the
county with good results.
acknowledgements are be-
ing completed for the forty-third an
nual encampment of the G.. \. r., de-
partment of Indiana, &c be held at
COnnersville May 1925.
Evansville.-The April Fools, an or
ganization of persons who were born
during the month of April, has beer
formed at Evansville.
Madison.-A total or 81 head of
dairy cattle u of 525 tested for tu-
berculosis recently on Jefferson coun-
~ farms reacted 10 the test, indicat.
ing that they are tubercular. These
were branded by the inspectors Of the
state veterinary department. and will
be destroyed under federal super
vision. Forty-two of the % reactors
vvere in one herd of ia COWS