The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-04-21

tuberculosis get well In Indiana" Is
meeting 18th some degree Of success.
according 10 reports received by the
association. The custom OF patients
10 make trips 10 the west aiI SOUTH
west i'm search Of cures for tuiuer-
culosis is discouraged. since the area
visited In Colorado, New Mexico. Ari-
o n and other western states Is un-
able TO care for the great numbers
who go there. The associations deal
ing with the disease assert that by
observing proper instructions at home
where there are comforts not 10 be
obtained away from home, tubercu-
losis yields 10 treatment more read
lily oftentimes than In the reputed
'cure" areas.
Seymour.-Early fruit trees I'm Jack
son county are In full bloom and give
promise or heavy crops. Cherry. plum,
pear and peach trees are In unusual
ly heavy blossom and the trees would
not be able 10 support the fruit If all
OF the blooms matured. Orchard men
say IL is yet too early to make any
accurate forecast as TO the probable
crop. but they assert that the lndlca-
tions are the best for many years. The
blooms on many trees were killed last
spring by a late freeze and as the
trees have not borne fruit for two
years 1t is thought that they are in a
healthy condition this year TO bear
heavily.
lndianapolls.-The state board OF
health condemned 20 school buildings
III various parts Of the state as IN
sanitary and unfit for school purposes.
The action of the board was based
on recommendations made by DR.. w.
L. King. assistant state health COM
missioner, and H.. X. Condrey, in
spector. The majority of the buildings
condemned were old one-room town
ship schools. Bad floors, inadequate
lighting, glass out of windows, leaks
In roof and broken stoves and out
door toilets with no vaults were the
chief causes of the condemnation or
ders. the board said.
Jeffersonville.-The county assessor
has compiled average valuations for
taxation on farms and Improvements
in each of the u townships of Clark
county, based on selected lists of 20
good farms rom each township.
Averages run from $50 an acre for
land and $2S, including improvements.
In the poorer townships. TO $101 IN
acre for land and S113, including i'm
p~rovements, in the richer. In all cases
the valuations are reduced from 10
per cent to 20 per cent from the fig
ures of three years ago.
lndianapOlis.-An early return to
normally as far as Indiana farmers
are concerned is looked for by Gov
ernOr McCray, according to an opinion
expressed in a telegram to E. A.
StrOut, president of the Strout' Farm
Agency, Inc, New York. Governor
McCray's telegram said: I'm answer
to your inquiry, conditions are i'm
proved and prospects brighter in In
diana. Some inquiry for farm lands
to be developed. On the whole, good
outlook for early return TO normalcy."
Gary.-With Gary steel plants get
ting back to normal the number of
JOblesS men is decreasing. The Gary
municipal free employment bureau
went out of business three months ago
and free dodgers at the police station
are scarce. 1t is estimated that 5000
Gary men, who were idle in January,
are now at work. The eight-hour day
has also been s%upplanted by the ten
/ h0Dr day Tho npanIn-oo- .n.-f,ol -.
increase in wages.
Jeifersonville.-The board of trus-
tees of the Indiana reformatory re-
Gently paroled ca persons out of an
eligible list of Al. OF the men paroled,
Elne were ut the Indiana State prison
and nine were at the Indiana State
farm. The ~refOrmatOry population a
few days z was 911, and even with
the paroled men going out during the
month, the rate of arrivals will carry
the total over 1000 before the last
of the month.
Observation-Disclosures etwee
officials of Il starch company at Edin-
burg. and representatives of farmers
associations of Bartholomew and Shell
by counties for the manufacture of oil
and meal from soy beans at the Edin-
burg plant have been dropped. for the
time at least. The farmers and COM
pany officials were unable 10 agree on
a fixed price to be paid for the soy
beans.
Evansville.-A reduction of 10 cents
on 100 pounds has been announced by
ice manufacturers and distributors in
Evansville. The price TO housewives
delivered Is 40 cents q 100. as COM
pared to 90 cents last year. The price
to business houses this summer will
be 80 cents a 100, as compared TO
40 cents last year.
Brazil.-At a conference Of opera
tors of wagon coal mines and the ex-
ecutive board of district No. 8. United
Mine Workers of America, held in
Brazil. il was decided that all wagon
mines should remain closed until
further orders of the executive board.
South Bend.-A nine months term
of school Is requested for the rural
schools of ST. Joseph county by the