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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1940
Page
2
Special offers on started chicks with double votes this week. Electric brooders from 1.65. Golden Rule Hatcheries in Rushville guarantees mail order prices. Carthage Tractor & Implement Co. lists a Oliver 70 tractor and a John Deere Model A with accessories.
The Indiana State Police logged 7.6 million miles in 1939 while reducing bank robberies to four, recovering vehicles, and issuing a record number of traffic warnings. The Communications Division handled 144,356 messages and safety efforts reached 100,000 people in 672 meetings. Convictions reached sixty percent with 4,322 criminal arrests, and the bureau expanded fingerprints and identification files to over 240,000 entries.
Health authorities report a 25 percent rise in hog cholera outbreaks this year and 30 percent the year before, with 6,262 outbreaks last year and 4,861 the prior year. Illinois Iowa Ohio Nebraska Tennessee South Carolina and South Dakota led in cases. The American Foundation for Animal Health urges prompt reporting, strict quarantines, and immunization of brood sows and spring pigs to reduce 1940 losses.
The Division of Geology reports in Indiana that 375 wells were completed in 1939, more than double 1938, with 218 producing wells and a total value of oil and gas exceeding three million dollars. Southwestern Indiana, especially Posey and Gibson counties, led drilling activity in fields near Griffin and New Harmony.
Mrs James Mosier Jr of Nashville Tennessee will depart Carthage area at week end for a new home in Brevard North Carolina. She has been visiting relatives and friends in the area two weeks while Mr Mosier has accepted a new position there.
Community row reports visits funerals moving notices and club meetings across Charlottesville and nearby towns. Residents including Mrs Flora Sipe Miss Tillie Garland Mr and Mrs Earl Reiser and families staff at Ball Hospital in Muncie and Greenfield join in church society events and county federation meetings.
With the trapping season ending in Indiana on Wednesday Jan 31 all traps must be removed before midnight to comply with the law. Virgil M Simmons commissioner of the Department of Conservation points out. Traps found set on Feb 1 are subject to confiscation and the owners are subject to arrest. If traps are frozen or cannot be removed by Jan 31 trapper should notify the local game warden in advance to arrange removal.
Mrs. Bayard Baker attended the sixth district officers council meeting Tuesday at the Rushville library.
Mr and Mrs Frank Binford of near Dunreith visited Miss Susie Bentley Monday afternoon.
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