Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 June 1920 — Page 2

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JA8PE5? - - - INDIANA A dark horse will have to show somo The watch on the Ithlne Is becoming n Mrenuou.s one. Many a profiteer hohl n high position In his church. Tho joblIc has the power to rquelth tho proflteor. A Mriko never seems too'oxpenslvo In xplte of high living costs. Soft coal has gone up, !ut It can't hope to catch thj rent hill. Work more and waste less, thin helping to rrdiico tho cost of living. Tho price of gasoline Is to bo In vestlgnted. It Is pretty high as It Is. Kuropo realizes more and more poignantly that thero lins lccn n wnr. IVopIo nro getting fo they do not oven hat an eye when they read, "$75 nnd up." That little homo garden should thrlvo In this year of high costs of living. If It wasn't speculation something else, doubtless, would send sugar prices up. An unlnstructrd delegate may corao to he regarded with attention as ono of the wise. It doesn't take n very big piece of meat In the.se days of housebreakers to bribe the clog. Tho dark horse Is favored by the fact that the early boom encounters the hardest I'nocks. What docs the old-fashioned girl who married him "Just for n home" marry him for'now? Franco proposes n tax of 10 per cent on bachelors. That Is one tax, nt least, which married men will regret they can't pay. Lessons of tho war may have been learned the way tho average schoolboy learns his merely for temporary recitation purposes. Another reason for the population Increase may b? that moro peoplo -wore sober enough to answer tho con fcus taker's questions Evidently Japan Intends to keep salt water between Itself and the red peril, Halt water being a potent charm against devils of sorts. It is said fashion will decree wide and deep hip pockets for men. Such pockets In present circumstances nn hut nn empty mockery. A man found wearing the shirt of the czar Is held as his slayer. Ills lawyer will make them prove, first. that the czar had one. Uncle Sam wants the Turk expelled from Constantinople. This Is one Instance In which wo are all willing to Interfere In European affairs. Just think how much somo of the works of tjie old masters would be worth, though, If they were done over In this day with house paint. If anybody has Aladdin's wonderful lamp, which controlled the genie that built houses In a single night, now Is the time fdr him to rub It I There are enough candidates available to satisfy those who believe that competition for high oflice Is the life of a republic. A medical expert says profiteering Is a disease. And a disease from which It seems to take the consumer a ter rlbly Ions time to recover. Women are warned that smoking cigarettes will Injure their complexions. "The reformer who started on that tack knows the sex. Every possible efTort should be made to round up a profiteer before county fair . time so that folks can see what one of the critters looks like. The king of Spain has been bequeathed a million pesetas for educational purposes, which at least ought to buy a couple of spelling books. . The next moral reform will attempt to stop cigarette smoking among women. This will mean daughter will have to borrow a smoke from father In stead of from mother. There are probably 20 times ns many Italians in New York than In Flurae. Suppose some PWnnunzIo should arise on the East side! So far the oulja board has failed nggravntlngly to spell out the names ir oven the Initials of tho winners at Chicago and San Francisco. At present a fair-sized boom enn kep going vflth no further equipment than a press agent and a typewriter. There Is no excuse for lavish rnti'pafcn expenditures.

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Uncle Sam Honors Pilgrim Tercentenary

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WASHINGTON. The observances this year and next of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims will be varied, with ovoral tuition participating. The house has passed a resolution appropriating $HX,o)) for participation by the federal government. The resolution provides for the appointment of a commission. 0 Two sections are substantially as follows: 'One hundred thousand dollars may be expended under the direction of the commission and In co-operation with the Provlneotown tercentenary commission for the purpose of completing and Improving the approaches to ami the grounds of the Iilgrlm monument at Provlncetown, Mass.; of erecting suitably Inscribed tablets or markers In the towns of Provlncetown, Truro, Farmer Gets Half of IT COSTS the average housewife In the United States cents a quart for milk. This Is the figure based on returns for April of 1)7 of the principal titles of the United Slates In every state In the Union, compiled by the department of agriculture. Tor the milk which costs the house.wife Id cents (approximately) 'the farmers of the United States get from I cents up to 1H cents nn average of S cents. Thus, of every dollar spent for milk In the United States, th6 dairy farmer gets only 50 cents. The otjier ft) cents covers the costs which come between farmer and consumer freight, distribution and profits of the middleman. The range of prices in April to the farmer who produces milk varied throughout the United States. In New England the farmer got from (1 to 10 cents a quart; In the east north central Mate they got from f to 8 cents; In the west north central slates from T to 8 cents; In the south Atlantic states from 7 to l cents; In the east south central region from 0 to 8 cents; In the west south central states from ) to 11 cents; In the mountain states from 0 to l rents, and In the Pacific states from 1 to 1) cents per quart. Savannah, (Ja., has tho highest retall price for milk from X to ;;o cents a quart to 1 14 family trade.' Many other cities have H.Vcont milk. The cities with the lowest nil lie prices of

U. S. S. G. Army: "Every Child in a Garden"

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CHILDREN to the number of 2,500,000 were enrolled In 1910 in the United States school garden army. With the new year the problems that confront educators are to Increase this army, to make the garden work more permanent and to Increase Its educational value. The motto of the garden army "A Garden for Every Child, Every Child In a Garden" can only be realized when gardening becomes a definite part of school work. City children will form habits of Industry and regularity by utilizing their energies on the back yawls and vacant lots that ore now largely unproductive. School-supervised home gardening requires only a Imlted amount of school time, but it should have as definite a place and credit 'ns

Young Oklahoma Marvelously Prosperous

IN THE house the other day Representative Everette R. Howard of Oklahoma made an Interesting speech based on the fact that 31 years ago took place the famous 4,Indian Territory race for homesteads," which marked the beginning of his state. That fertile country which was inhabited In the morning by the occasional cowboy and the coyote at even-tide of that same day boasted of cities of thousands and n total population running well-nigh the 100,000 mark. In the course of his remarks he brought out the following facts: Oklahoma crops for the year 1010 wert worth $347,75S,00O. Value of Oklahoma livestock for 1910 was $214.191,000. Oklahoma now ranks tenth among itates In the value of all crops. The average Income of the 200,000 families- on Oklahoma's farms exceeded Sl.OOO. . . Last year's acre value of Oklahoma's 12 loading Held crops exceeded the es

Wellileet nnd Eastham, and foe other work In connection therewith. "Three hundred thousand dollars may be expended under the direction of the commission and In co-operation with the Pilgrim tercentenary commls. slon for the purpose of restoring ami improving Plymouth rock and the shore line of the locality adjacent thereto, of protecting and Improving the burial grounds upon Coles hill and Rurlal hill In Plymouth, Mass.; of erecting tablets or markers at appropriate places In the Old Colony, and for other work In connection therewith." Massachusetts has appropriated $3'J.",000 and Plymouth $:VJ0,(MM). Patrlotle and fraternal societies-and other organizations have also contributed largely. The commission Is to be known as lhev United Slates Pilgrim Tercentenary commission ami to decomposed of nine commissioners, as follows: Three persons to be appointed by the president, two senators by the president of the senate, and four representatives by the speaker of the house of representatives. The commissioners shall serve without compensation and shall select a chairman from among their number.

Average Milk Price those reporting' to the agricultural department are Seattle, Milwaukee and (Jrcen liny, Wis., where the price Is 111 cents a quart to family trade. Salt Lake City has a price of cents a quart. Every other city of tho 07 reporting has prices above 12 cents. In 1011 the average price per quart of milk was only 8 cents. Uy 1013 It had risen to nn average of M cents; now It Is near 10 cents. This represents an Increase of nearly 100 per cent. That the farmer Is not profiteering Is Indicated by'the fact that the costs of all foodstuffs and other elements entering Into the production of milk have risen more than the milk price. Out of LT principal titles Jn tho United States the farmer fares worst and the, distributing company best In Omaha, Xeh where f7.1 per cent of the price of a quart of milk govs to the company -and i-.S . per cent to the fanner. any other school subject. As a practical out-of-school hours subject, gardening admits of the widest kind of correlation with other studies. There is no school subject from which more real knowledge may be gained of science, of art, of. life's relations than from dealing with living! growing plants. The formation of companies should be continued. The company simply establishes a working unit that may include a class, a school or any other group adapted to local conditions. The number m a company may vary from ton to r0. Each company should have n captain and one or two lieutenants, the latter depending on the number of pupils enlisted. The 1020 insignia Is made by lithographing the U. S. S. G. A. design on a celluloid bar and has a bangle pin attached. The inslgnlas are complete andrrendy for distribution to the pupils when received by the teacher. A certificate of honor will be presented to children who achieve real success. Manuals (free to teachers) may be purchased 6f the superintendent of documents, government printing oflice, Washington. OKLAHOMA iS Fine timated acre price of its average plow land. The crop value In 1919 was nearly four times the crop value In statehood year, 1907. Its farmers paid for farm help onethird more per month than the average paid In the IG states comprising the South Atlantic and the south central groups. Half the farms are under oil lease, and from these leases last year landowners received $32,000,000. Oklahoma landowners received last year from crops, royalties, and livestock the total sum of $S 10,939.000.

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lllllilillllliilliillllllllllllllllllilllittiiir; Richmond. Coal for , the Wayne County courthouse, the County Infirmary, the Tuberculosis hospital and tho Jail cannot be obtained at the present time ami dealers In Richmond, will give no definite assurance as to whe.i fuel may be obtained. Rids for 92." tons were advertised for, and tho contract was to have been awarded a few days ago. but not a single bid was received. Tho commissioners wete Informed by dealers tlutl next winter's supply of fuel for county Institutions probably will have to bo bought on tho open market. Mumie. Of tho 10,002 persons of school age In Ihiawaro county, 11,001 live In the city of Mundo, according to the reports of school census enumerators. The city shows a gain of .H2 over the preceding year. Lack of dwellings, which furors hundreds? of men to keep their families elsewhere; prevents a greater gain in children, the school authorities say. School age Is fixed by state law as from six to twenty-one. Washington, I). C Adjt. Gen. liarry R. Smith has written to the Indiana senators that the National CJuard officers of Indiana favor the house provisions of 'the army bill on the National Guard, which would leave the guard as It was before the war. He opposes the organization of the guard under the army clause of tho Constitution on the ground that such action took too much power from the states. Anderson. Thirty-eight head of Shorthorn rattle sold by Dr. A. E. Harlan nt his farm In the north part of Madison county, brought $15,rflö. The highest price paid was $1,000 for a four-year-old cow, bought by Morris E. Jones of Culver. Morris Wynn of Lucerne paid $800 for a two-year-old heifer. Another heifer of the same age sold for $7."0. The average for cows was $190 and for bulls. $:;oo. Indianapolis. Otto . A. Royer of South Rend was nominated for grandmaster without opposition nt the closing session of the eighty-fourth semi-, annual meeting of the grand lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Indiana, held In Indianapolis. Oeorge E. Ilershman of Crown Point was nominated for deputy grandmaster. Election of ofileers will be held at the November meeting of tho grand lodge. East Chicago. Chauffeurs and assistant chauffeurs of the East Chicago police and fire departments, who are members of the Teamsters union, have received a $2o a month Increase In pay while other members oC the department, who also petitioned for an Increase, received none. The chauffeurs In the police department now re celve $17.p a month. Captains and desk seargents receive $100. English Floyd Weathers,, age thirteen, was shot accidentally and Instantly killed by Richard Weather, his father, while the two were squirrel hunting north of Marengo. Tho youth had climbed Into a tree to run down a squirrel and the father, who Is about seventy years , old, mistook the appearance of the boy's cap for a squirrel. Terro Haute Will lam Wood Parsons, president of Indiana State Normal school here, recently observed his seventieth birthday anniversary. Fifty years of his long life have been devoted to the Institution of which he Is tho head. He was a student at the school -when It was opened ' In January, 1870. Lafayette. Tippecanoe county, business and professional men. acting as spokesmen for the citizens of the county generally, have volunteered to lay a substantial financial foundation for the $1,000,000 Purdue University Union memorial building, which It Is proposed to erect on tho university campus. Indianapolis. Clyde E. Titus of Indianapolis was elected president of the Indiana Funeral Directors' association at the closing session of Its fortieth annual convention at Indianapolis. A resolution was passed declaring that the sentiment of the association Is to discourage Sunday funerals. Huntington. Enumeration of persons of school age In Huntington county shows a gain of 44 persons over that of last year according to a report complied by Clifford Funderburg. county superintendent of schools. The total In the townships Is 404. In the cities the number is 3.55S. Gnry. "Sleeping Influenza," as Gary physicians term It, caused the death of nine-year-old Ruth Harriet Windlad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ephran Windlad. This Is the third death from sleeping sickness in this city this year. Fort Wayne. Statistics recently compiled show that deposits in banks In Fort Wayne have Increased nearly $4.500,000 In the last year. Terre Haute. William Franklin, age thirty-two, son of William R. Franklin, a farmer, living east of St. Marys, was shot and instantly killed by benjamin Franklin, age twentyeight, his brother. The tragedy occurred In a bedroom at the Franklin home, where Renjamln had gone to awaken another brother. South Rend. Fort Wayne-was selected as the city In which to hold next year's convention at the closing session of the St. Joseph's St a to league here. . Otto Kreuzberger of Evansvllle was elected president.

Evansvllle. Tho 1020 wheat crop of Yanderburs county will be stored In grain elevators at thrashing time nnd held by the farmers until a settled price has been reached, and not sold immediately after being thrashed, according to tho decision of the officers and directors of the Vanderburg County Farmers Improvement association. Tho farmers were urged not only to hold their new wheat, but to hold on to their present supply of grain until the price of $.'J a bushel is offered. As the yield of wheat this year will be only about one-half of tho usual crop, the farm officials pointed out that even should tho farmers receive $.'l a bushel they would not make much more then expenses because of the short crop. Indianapolis. County and township officials were urged to proceed slowly In authorizing public Improvements that require bond Issues at Ibis time In n resolution adopted nt the closing session of a convention In Indianapolis of county presidents and secretaries of organizations atllilated with the Indl ana Federation of Farmers1 Associations. It was .the sense of the members that public Improvement costs now nro abnormal and that labor which would be used on the roads could bo utilized moro benetkially on the farms, Seymour. Roland P. Ilofmann owner of a large orchard near Paoll, says Indications are favorable for a bumper peach and apple crop In southern Indiana. He predicts a pack of 'J.'.OOO bushels of peaches In tho Paoll district. He believes that tho grape and small fruit crop In the southern part of the state will also be large, although the pear, cherry and.' plum prospects wcro cut short by recent freezes. In not thorn Indiana, he says, Indications point to a heavy crop of apples, pears and cherries. NoweasJIe. An earthenware Jar, which contained $1,.T25 In gold coins, was unearthed recently under the house on the John C. Hardin farm, near Greensboro. Workmen, who were excavating for a cellar, found the money. It being in denominations of $,", $1Q and $20 pieces, there being ?l,-00 in $20 gold piece?. Tho coins nro believed to have been burled under tho house at leasi forty years ago by Mrs. Rachel Charlesworth, now dead, who was known ns an eccentric woman. Terre Haute. The state convention of the Indiana Woman's Association of Commerce, In session here, elected the following officers: President, Miss Emma May, Terre Haute; first vice president, Mrs. Julia A. McAndrew, Vlncennes; second vice president, Mrs. Mary Torrenco, Mundo; recording secretary, Miss Ida 0. Miller, Mundo; corresponding secretary. Miss Anna Stelnmehl, Terre Haute; treasurer. Miss Snider, Mundo. Danville. Arthur W. Collett of Logansport, has been appointed by thrt hoardof managers of the National Soldiers' homo ns governor of the Danville branch, succeeding Col. Henry E. Rlv"s öl Paris, III., who resigned. Mr. Collett, who formerly was? governor of the southern branch at Hampton Roads, will take charge July 1. He served in an Indiana regiment during the civil war. Torre Haute. An interurban car bound from Sullivan to Terre Haute was held up by two men who boarded the car six miles south of Terre Haute, and lied without obtaining any loot. Tho robbers1 are said to have been driven off by a passenger and the conductor of. the car. 'They fired several shots into the Interurban as they tied, but none took effect. Logansport. The members of the Housewives league of Logansport. In sympathy with the action of the league in Indianapolis and other cities of the state, have voted to cut off their list of purchases, candy, Ice cream, soft drinks and other luxuries containing 3Ugnr, ami to refrain from the purchase as long as the price of sugnr remains prohibitive. Logansport. William Hopper, principal of tho Star City schools, Is held under $.") bond to answer to the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, preferred by John McCIurc, father of William McC'lure, whom the teacher Is charged with slashing with a razor. The alleged assault Is said to have occurred over a girl of the town. Jeffersonville.For the first time in

several years enumeration of persona of school age In the townships of Clark county, shows an increase of V.l. The Incorporated towns lost 01 and Jeffersonville 78, making n net loss of .00 In the county. Fort Wayne. F. O. Hughes of Kokomo was elected grand chancellor of the Indiana Grand Council of United Commercial Travelers at Its annual convention held In Fort Wayne. He succeeds' L. E. Marcher of Evansvllle. Winamac. Frank Husch and Earl Fritz killed seven wolf puppies southwest of Medaryvllle. They found no trace of tho old wolves, but for the seven pelts received a bounty of $2.50 for each of them. Columbia City. The farmers of Whitley county have organized an association with Elmer E. Helmbach as president, fo pick and prepare their own wool for shipping to n commission house. Paoll. Mr and Mrs. David Hudleson celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary at Paoll. Mr. Hudleson Is eighty-five and his wife Is eighty years old. South Rend. Farmers of Elkhart, St. Joseph and Marshall counties are opposed to any more road Improvements until the high cost of material and labor show a decided Increase. Elkhart. Indianapolis was selected as the 1021 meeting place of the Indiana conference of the Congregational church, which held Its sixty-second yearly gathering In Elkhart.

WORSE THAN APPENDICITIS. 'What's the matter, old top? You look sick." Tve Just undergone a serious operation." " Append kit I sV' 'Worse than that. I had my allownnce cut off." His -Quest. Rurrowr, Ry the way, what was tho denomination of that bill you loaded me ? Lenders Episcopalian, I Imagine It keeps Lent so well. Choice of Abodes. "I gotta have a place to live." "I understand," said the real estate man, "and maybo I can fix ycu up. Now, which would you prefer, a portable shed r n tent?" Not Guilty. Colonel Southcrland Well, Rastus, did tho Judge find you guilty of stcalInp; chickens? Ilnstus No, sun, colonel; I was released on a'plclon. Up In the Air. The" Magistrate What's the charge ngalnst his rann, officer? Tho Air Qoi) He was speeding In a h!gh-po.cr racing plane and ran down o child's goplane. m Llttlo Use. "He was much affected when I mado him a loan. When I looked nt him his face was working." "Yes, that Is tho way he saves his hands." MISANTHROPIC. "When Brown 13 happy he tries to clnff." y!3. Somo of us don't care how miserable wo mako other, so long as wft'ro comfortable. Cross-Examination. Tho lawyer to the witness clings With questions deftly wrought. And makes him ray a lot of things Ho never knew he thought. The Impossible. "It's. such a nice place where you moved, I hope you'll like your new neighbors." "I'm Just sure I won't. They all own cheap car3." Rrownlng's Magazine. The Menu. She certainly has a way of talking you down with cold sarcasm." "Yes; n course, of tongue, ns It afA c?A"rrw1 wWK Villi. .. .. Hia Status. i knew a man onco who nte n ten-pound turkey with trimmings on a heir "He must have been a man of consuming ambition." Cautious. Post -I say, old man, will you Join 0ur Rig Rrother club? Parker Let's see the girl I'm to be fraternal to first. Judge. Showing It. "Rlbbs Is a live wire." "I know he Is. He touched me. for ten dollars this morning and I was shocked." Professional Duty. "Why did you-leave the dentist you have been going to so long?" 'I found he was getting on my nerves. True. Pa, what's a scientific salesman? "A scientific salesman Is a fellow who knows when to quit annoying you. Odious. Dill McShorte has sold a poem to Scribblers, entitled an MOde to a Fair Lady." nulls Has he? Well, he Is more competent to write verses entitled "Owed to a Landlady. London TitBits. One Flaw. "She acta ns though she thought shv was the queen of Sheba. "Ohno. She would never think she was anybody who had to go to somebody else for wisdom.