Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1920 — Page 8

THE IXDIAXAPOLIS NEWS, MONDAY, APEIL 26, 1920.

WET lAIffiR DEUYS FARM M IN SM

PASTURES, RYE AND WHEAT WENEPITED.

fOQR WHEAT PROSPECTS

'P&sturea. rye and wheat are about the only things on Indiana farms that have done any good in the last three weeks, observes George C. Bryant, fl«id agent of the co-operative crop reporting service. In his weekly summary of crop conditions in the state. He says*. Exceptionally heavy rainfall on several days of the last week has caused practically all of the rivers and smaller streams of the state to overflow their banks and do considerable damage. So plowing or seeding baa been done and farm work is now fully three weeks behind. **The week has been favorable to 'heat, but the condition is still very , There will not be a targe plowecauee of the labor shortage, ai>ot>gh seam fields will make very low vielfis, , - "Unless the weather settles the oats acreage will be considerably short of Intentions. Rye leeks very good and has made seme growth. Yeung clover is beginning to show growth and is a fair stand, allbough less seed than usual was used to the acre. "Early fruit trees are is bloom and show but title damage from Hie recent severe weather. Fanners are offering good wages for laborers hut can not obtain enough for tbs re-

quirements. Live stock generally is in good condition. Pastures m*Ue considerable growth during the week and are in Splendid condition.” CHURCH MORTGAGE BURNED

Xehlesviile Ceagregatlen Frees Itself „ ef a 1ft-Year-Old Debt. (Special to The Indianapolis IfewaJ KOBLESVILLE. Ind„ April 2«.— Special services were held at the South Ninth Street Methodist Episcopal church in this city Sunday, the occasion being the burning of a mortgage which has been on the church since it was built fifteen years ago. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Hubert Perry, pastor of the Indiana Avenue Methodist Episcopal church In Anderaon. The Baptist church in this city, of which the Rev. J. R. Quick is pastor and one of the smallest churches in Noblesvllle, so far as membership is concerned, went over the top Sunday afternoon in subscribing its interchurch world movement quota of fl.fibd. The entire amount was subscribed in by thirty-five members in five minutes. “On aad Off" Gas Hearing. Hearing on a petition of the Central Indiana Gas Company to provide “on and otT service only to industrial concerns at Muncie, Hartford City, Fairmount and Gaa City will be held Wednesday at It a. m . It has been announced by the public eervice oommiseion. The “on and ©«” service proposal has been the cause of an extended contest between the company and the industrial concerns ftifeet**. The service would mean that the concerns wouM obtain gas only efter the supply was more than neerjeary for domestic consumption.

FIRE LOSS IS $25,000.

Feed Mill. Warehouse end Three Houses Destroyed nt Terre Hnute. (Special to The Indixnspohs Hews] TERRE HAUTE, Ind- April 26 — The feed mill and warehouse of Wilson, Hager A Houles, at Fourteenth street and the Vandalia railroad, three houses, seven sheds, a small machine shop and a garage were destroyed Saturday evening by a fire believed to have been of incendiary origin. The loas was about $25,600, partly covered by insurance. A watchman at the feed mill saw three small boys set fire to a pile of straw in the rear of the mill and gave chase bat was unable to apprehend i them. Henry Burgesa. eleven years old. was arrested, and after examination was released to appear in court

Monday morning.

A fire truck on the way to the fire struck an automobile at Fourteenth and Chestnut streets and cut it in two. but the three occupants escaped uninjured. The automobile driven by John Roll, assistant fire chief, was struck by a street car at Thirteenth and Locust streets when on the way; to the fire, hut Roll escaped injury. CANDIDATES ARE CALLED. Pcmecmts Will CeuMer Foliey

Qoeetieas April 1ft.

(Special to Ths ladtewspofts Hews] EVANSV1LLEL Ind-. April 26.—Benjamin Bosee. Democratic state chairman, Saturday issued a call for a meeting ol candidates for state offices in Indianapolis next Thursday. The meeting will consider questions of policy during the coming campaign.

TO PLANT DISEASED CORN. Shelby County Farmers Arranging

Demonstration Plata.

[Special to The IndisnapotU News] SHELBYVILLE. Ind.. April 2*.—

Directors of the Shelby County Farmers' Association, at a meeting held here Saturday in the office of Russell G. East, county agent, arranged to plant thirty-five demonstration plots in the county this

spring, using diseased seed corn for the tests. Corn will be used that was found to be diseased in •■modified rag doir* tests in this city. These plots will be carefully watched for disease and yiald by local farmers and by Purdue experts. In the fall a series of dem-

onstration meetings wilt be held. Two or more of the plots for demonstration purposes wtii be placed in each township. Shelbv county farmers, individually and collectively, will fight the Nolan tax bill, which has been Introduced in the house. The bill provides that

26 per cent, of the manufacturers ta* be removed and placed on fftrmk valued at more than IlMOO member of the county farmers'! ■ ganitation will wire to Representative Elliott and to Senators Wat eon and New, protesting against the bill.I and asking for its defeat. ^

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