Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1919 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. MANY JOIN FIGHT ON PEST Thousands of Farmers Working Hard to Stop Spread of Army Worm— U. 8. Official Telia How to Wipe Out Insects. Newcastle, June 20. —The crest of the army worm destruction of crops Id Henry county will be reached within four or five days, according to W. G. Larrlmore of the department of agriculture of Washington. D. C„ who arrived here. Mr. Larrlmore stated, after an Investigation of the ruined fields, that the worms are not at present In the wheat and timothy und will probably not attack these‘crops. He said that the worms destroy In the mature stage and later become moths. No worms ure now hatching and those causing the damage will disappear In u short time. Mr. Larrlmore stated that the worms probably would not apI>ehr again within two or three years, but If they reappear this year, it will be within five or six weeks. Immediately after Mr. Larrlmore had made a tour of the Infested district, the farmers who were working on scores of farms digging trenches, gathered at the courthouse, where they were addressed by Mr. Larrlmore. More than 1,000 fanners from Henry, Wayne, Delaware and Hush counties were on hand in the morning to assist In the fight to extenninate the pest. The presidents of the township fanners’ associations will have charge of the work in their various areas and If they find that they are unahle to cope with the situation they are asked to call on other townships for help. Despite the frantic efforts of the fanners to check the pest through every known method of extermination, the spread of the worm went on apparently unabated. The worm Is now prevalent In six townships, Henry, Prairie, Stony Creek, Fall Creek, Blue River and Splcelnnd. and every farm between Newcastle and RodgersviUe In Prairie township, a distance of eight miles, Is new Infested. Mr. Larrlmore told the farmers that he believed they were on the right track in digging trenches. He stated that their method of burning the Insects lifted they were In the trenches was good but advocated the use of poison bran. He declared that one reason the farmers were disappointed over the method used was because they did not see the worms after they were dead. He stated that the worms hurled themselves in the ground and died. He recommended a bran mixture consisting of twenty-five pounds of bran, one pound of parls green or white arsenic, two quarts of stale'molasses and three lemons or oranges. The bran and poison are mixed dry and the other Ingredients added. lie sakl this should be scattered on the ground, five to ten pounds to the acre. The loss in the county will reach over $. r >o,ooo it was declared.

Charges Negro With Crime. Muncle, June 20.—Miss Bemardlne Woenker of Fort Wayne, who was in company with Fred Holle of Fort "NYayne the night of May 30, when Holle was shot and killed by a negro highwayman, positively identified George Anderson, colored, a prisoner in the county jail here, as Holle’s slayer. Anderson is held here as the murderer of Clyde Benadum, a Muncle druggist, who was killed in his store the night of June 10. “That’s the voice of the man who killed Fred,” Miss Woenker said when she entered the negro’s cell in company with Sheriff Gilley and two detectives of Fort Wayne.

Honor for Lieutenant Funkhouser. Evansville, June 20. —The body of Lieut. Albert C. Funkhouser, who died in a government hospital at Newport News, Va., arrived Wednesday and was burled Thursday. The service was held at the Bayard Park Methodist Episcopal church. The death of Lieutenant Funkhouser, following that of his brother, Lieut. Paul Funkhouaer, who was killed in action In France, has given Impetus to the move to name the Evansville post of the American Legion of Honor the Funkbouser post, out of respect to the memory of the two brothers who gave their lives for their country. Five Year* for Disloyalty. Newport, June 20.—Boston Gibson, who gave Terre Haute as his home, was sentenced to serve five years In the state prison and fined $5,000 by Circuit Court Judge Alkmen when he pleaded guilty to making seditious utterances. He Is alleged to have urged overthrow of the American government during a street speech in Clinton, where he was arrested. A mob stormed the Clinton jail following his arrest, but were driven off with a fire hose and Gibson was brought here. Degrees for Fifteen Students. Upland, June 20. —Representative Fred Fisher of New York addressed the seventy-third annual graduating class at Taylor university. Degrees were conferred on 15 students and dlpulomas were awarded 16 students of the academy. To Give Highway Program. Indianapolis, June 20. —The program of the state highway commission for next year will be unfolded at a dinner to be given for the commission by the Hoosler Motor club here June 25.