The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-21
State NezUs
in Brief

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 81
- Miss Nellie White, 314 North
Denny street, and Miss Opra
Wright, 2132 Jefferson street, In
dianapohs, have received appoint
ments to enter the March class OF
the Indiana university training
school for nurses, according to the
! announcement here by Ethel P
Clarke, director of the school. Mrs
Clarke states that several vacancies
in the class still exist.
RICHMOND, Ind, March I'll
Another distinction has come tc
Professor Jesse S. Reeves, formerly
of this city and the son of James
F. Reeves, for many years prominent
in local banking circles. He has
been appointed as technical adviser
to the American delegation attend
ing a world conference for the cod1fi-
cation of international law.
/ ANDERSON, Ind, March 21.-
Fire destroyed a large barn on the
/ J. o. Garten farm, east of here
Farm implements, hay and LOCO
/ bushels of corn were destroyed,
Sparks set fire to cattle barn on
the farm of Margaret Stewart
across a road. Anderson f1remen
were called, but arrived too late to
be of any assistance.
GREENCASTLE, Ind. March 81
The w. C. T. U. Of this city
through its scientific department, is
conducting an essay contest in the
local high 1865 and seventh and
eighth grades OF Putnam county
schools. which will close April s.
Prize winning essays will be entered
in a state contest.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 81
The Indiana university band, di-
rected by v. E. billiard. will open its
fifth annual tour of the state at
1 Washington, March 81, under aus
pices of the citys KiwaniS Club
/ The band will be at VincenneS
April /: Evansville, April 2; Tell
City, April 3, and New Albany
April 4.
KENTLAND, Ind, March 81. -
Newton county authorities are
striving today to clear the mystery
death OF Mrs Bronysi NordydiS
about ~, whose 3O0-pound body
badly mangled, was found on the
! Monon railroad tracks near Rose
lawn in the northern part of the
county.
WABASH, Ind, March 21.-Clint
! Gtossnickle, arrested by police here
after failing to pay fine for pos
sessing liquor, has escaped punish
ment on a charge of the same ma
ture. the case having been dismissed
in city court by Special Judge Q. E.
Milliner.
DUBLIN, Ind, March 21.-Prog-
ress has leveled the old Hoffman
building, one of the landmarks here
A filling station, owned by ]. Clyde
Hoffman, Indianapolis attorney and
Marion county member of the In
/ diana senate, occupies the site.
ALERT. Ind, March 21.-A de-
/ tective from the Indiana State
Bankers Association today was in
vestigating a 74-cent robbery from
/ the safe in the building formerly
occupied by the Alert State bank
here.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 81.
The city council has taken the
/ first step toward rebuilding Bloom
ingtons sewer system at cost of
$l,OOO00O by employing a Chicago
engineering firm to make a pre-
( liminary survey.
HIILSBORO. Ind, March n. -
| When Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Bowman
celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary here, guests included Mr..
and Mrs. Charles N. Keys, Frank
fort, only surviving witnesses of the
ceremony fifty years ago. Other
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, March 21.-
Agar Evanoff. 40, today stands
charged with the murder of his
wife, Mrs. Catherine Evanoff, 80
who died of wounds on the head in
f1icted with an ak March 6. She
died twelve days later.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March 81
- An Indiana university prom
queen will be chosen March % from
among the following four nominees:
Virginia Gentry. La Grange; Ruth
Burgner. Veedersburg; Nancy Biggs,
Princeton, and Shirley Worrell,
/ Clayton.
ANDERSON, Ind, March 81. -
The board of works has authorized
purchase of a car load of Kentucky
Rock asphalt to be used in repair
ing paved streets. The work will
be under supervision of William
Helton, street commissioner.
DEMANDS