The State Fair will be held this year Sept. 12 to 17 Inclusive.Fairmount schools are closed because of 150 cases of measles.Major Doxey, now in Miami, Fla., for his health, is improving.Newtcn H. Miners has been appointed postmaster of Jeffersonville.Noblesville has built tlaree elegant churches in the last four years.The junior class of Franklin College i» preparing to publish an annual in June, to be called tlte Blue and Gold.The commissioners of Laporte County have refused the petition looking to straightening the Kankakee river.Hunters report a greater catch of minks and skunks In Crawford and adjoining counties than for many years.Joel Snyder, near Wakarusa, sixty years old, was found dead in his barn, having been kicked to death by a horse.Montpelier glass men who voted for McKinley last fall have organized a socialist labor party and will publish a paper.Steamer D. A. Nisbet is stuck in a cornfield below Evansville. Tugs can not move it and it has been abandoned. It is valued at $25,000.