Glancing Back

TERRE HAUTE — The junior prom at Rose Polytechnic Institute ended early with medical attention for fifty students and guests.

Punch served at the event was poisoned, is the belief of Dr. Larkin, who attended to the sick persons. Some of the cases were serious, but none will probably prove fatal.

Coach Millen of the school and one of the sick declared that a bottle containing castor oil and essence of red pepper was found in one corner of the gymnasium after the guests had become ill. Dr. Larkin said the punch had poisoned with medical alcohol.

PHS TRACK MAY ENTER NATIONAL MEET

Princeton High School may enter some of its track men at the national meet at Chicago May 26, the local school having received invitation to make such entries.

OBJECT TO PICTURE

Clyde Noble of the Noble theater said this morning the theater management has been waited on by a committee of citizens who voiced a protest against the showing of the Charley Chaplin picture, “The Pilgrim,” here.

The committee raised objection that Chaplin in the picture burlesques a Protestant minister, appearing as an escaped convict who through some mistake is accepted as a preacher.

JOHNSON HEADS BOARD OF MINES

William Johnson, president of the Francisco Mining Company, was elected chairman of the new state board of mines and mining at an organization meeting held in the office of Governor McCray yesterday.

HURT FROM FALL FROM WAGON

R.A. McCoy, 67, residing near White church west of the city, was seriously injured at 6:30 o’clock this morning when he fell from a wagon at the farm of Harvey Kendle. Mr. McCoy was unloading straw from the wagon when the team started up and he fell.

REBUILD ALL MAIN STREET

That Main street is going to have to be rebuilt throughout was stated at the noon meeting of the Rotary by Mayor Charles Niemeier.

Main Street from the south city limits to State street is to be resurfaced as a township unit road. Petitioners living along Main north of the square should now seek to have the township unit plan carried out for that part of the street also.

“If that is not done,” he said, “it is going to be resurfaced at the cost of the abutting property owners.”

The mayor said Main and Spruce Street west from Main, both should be resurfaced, both being a part of the Dixie Bee line. The time will come, he believes, when the state will look after the upkeep of its highways even where they pass through cities, as such streets naturally will wear out faster with heavier traffic over them.

The future policy of the city administration will be to rebuild the city streets by assessment of abutting property and not by general assessment.

A committee of the council is empowered to build a comfort station at the auto park at the west end of Spruce street, the mayor said, and at this time the improvement of this auto camping ground is of paramount importance to the city. He held that this should go ahead of everything else.