The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-01-06
News
BreyitieS
From Indiana

the idea of cooperative buying that
the national organization has Endorsed.
Salem.-The large dairy barn be-
longing 10 Roscoe Norris just south of
this city, was destroyed by fire. Twen
ty-one valuable dairy cows and four
horses persisted. Rescuers were able
TO get only one horse from the barn.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. with
$1,000 insurance
COlumbus.-An effort to obtain full
cooperation between farmers and city
business men is being made in a cam
paign for new members for the Column
bus Chamber of Commerce. Eleven
teams of workers were appointed and
they are making canvass of Column
bus and Bartholomew county.
Indianapolis.-A new device, known
as a core drilling machine, TO test the
quality and quantity Of materials used
in rOad-buiIding construction in Indi
ana. has been bought by the state high
way commission. The machine is the
first Of its kind brought to Indiana.
The machine is used for boring out
core in completed pavement. where
there is Il question about the materi-
ais used in the construction.
anapolis.-Sentences ranging from
two years i'm the federal prison at
Leavenworth 10 one day in Jail were
imposed by Judge A. B. Anderson in
the federal court at Indianapolis ON 40
of the 46 Muncie residents charged
with conspiracy TO violate the federal
prohibition law. The defendants not
sentenced are those serving prison
sentences on other charges or those
not arrested or whose cases were dis
missed
FIT Wayne.-To make FIT. Wayne a
healthier and happier city in which
TO live" John b. FRANKIE and his wife,
Amelia FRANKIE. have presented to the
city of FIT. Wayne an S0-acre tract of
land lying north of the city. to be used
for park purposes. The gift has been
formally accepted by the board of park
commissioners. 1t will be known as
the John Il. FRANKIE park. The ground
includes the KreaGer-Wallace woods.
famed for natural beauty.
characterization county's hos
pital board has voted to make q, condi-
tiOnal award of the contract for build
ing the proposed county hospital ar
Clinton on n bid of S11S,4S5 for the
general contract. and the heating and
plumbing for $50, 200 The award is on
condition that approximately $4,000
be raised within n month by coal OPP
orators interested in the Clinton coal
field. or by other citizens to provide
the rest of the money needed
Columbus.-Kentucky, famous as
tObaccO-growing state. must yield it's
laurels 10 Brown county, Indiana. as q
producer of the choicest long brown
leaves, according to c. w. Camden,
Brown county tobacco grower. Several
trucklOads of choice tobacco grown i'm
Brown county were shipped to Mad
iSon for sale The discovery of a soil
in Brown county said TO be better than
that of Kentucky for tobacco raising
was made by Camden. Il Kentuckian
himself.
Indianapolis.-The Indiana Supreme
court has taken judicial cognizance of
the intoxicating properties of the liquor
called white mule" i'm affirming the
conviction i'm the Marion county Grim
inal court of Tommy Hogan. charged
with unlawful possession Of intoxicat-
ing liquor Hogan appealed from the
lower courts decision, setting out,
among other things. that there was no
evidence that the liquOr-Of the white
mule" variety, according To evidence
was Intoxicating The Supreme court
opinion said. in conclusion: Evidence
thar the liquor was white mule wills
Ky sufficiently establishes the fact that
it was intoxicating The court has
judicial knowledge that whisky is in
tOxicating.
IndianapOiS.-A total of 422 GAG Ii
census were issued by the automobile
division of the secretary of states office
this year as compared with 354671
last year. an increase of G7.915. il was
announced The department has dis
continued the issuing of 1921 licenses
and began the past week 10 fill apph-
cations for licenses for 1922. The fig
ureS show 357,025 passenger cars in
the state. or one for every eight per-
sons. The number of passenger cars
licensed this year is an increase of
IS. 100 over 1920 when licenses were
issued 10 owners of 300.226 passenger
automobiles; an increase of 1885
trucks i'm use in the state was record
ed. total of 1917 truck licenses be-
ing issued this year as compared TO
81, 4S1 for last year.
Austin.-The Austin State bank was
entered and safe was blown and
robbed. Two hundred dollars in cash
was taken from the safe. but an inside
rault was not entered. Safety deposit
boxes netted the robbers more than
$1,000 in Liberty bonds and other val
uables. Postage stamps deposited by
the postmaster were also taken.
Terre Haute.-The organization OF
, the Vigo County Truck and Fruit as
ISOLATION has been completed. The
chief purposes are to better gardening
and marketing conditions and 10 pro