Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 27 May 1921 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1921

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democracy of Muncie, Delaware county and the Eight Congressional Distrct. The only Democratic newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3,1879.

Subscription Price, $2.00 a year in Advance Office 315 North Mulberry Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1921

The Post-Democrat favors the defeat of the city manager plan, because of the weak spots in the law, and not because it is being opposed by the republican candidates’ association. The Post-Democrat has met nothing but opposition from the republican machine since it entered the field here last January. The republicans are now hollowering for democrats to save them from a law they passed themselves, and at the same time the only democratic newspaper in Muncie is compelled to go to law to compel the republican board of county commissioners to pay for legal advertising. The republican machine is not above asking for democratic assistance, but does not believe in reciprocity.

«£♦ *1* ♦J* 4J41 ! Po itical Announcements 1: ❖ f * 4 4 4*4 4*4 4*4 **4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4^4 4*44*4 4*4 4^4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*4 4*-» 4*4 4*4 4*4 4^4 r'4 4^ FOR CITY JUDGE Ambrose D. Gray, candidate for city judge, subject to the votes of the democrats of Muncie at the city primary to be held Tuesday, May S, 1921.

“LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE,” IS BATHING SUIT RULE

William A. McClellan, judge of the city court, announces his candidacy for renomination to that office, subject to the decision of the voters in the democratic primary, May 3, 1921.

Most Tourists in California Arc “Terribly Shocked” at What They See on the Beaches, But • They Stick Around

We suggest to the campaigners on both sides, who have wandered far afield and lost sight of the “squirrel” in their attempt to “get in on” this or that partisan, that we call another election to decide whether Senator Fitch did or didn’t, whether Miss Belle Coleman was or wasn’t, and which is the biggest liar, the Star of the Press.

The Post-Democrat was always led to believe that a county infirmary was primarily intended as an asylum for the aged and indigent, and that was the sole duty of the superintendent to give these unfortunates the best possible treatment, in a careful and economical manner. We were entirely wrong. The Delaware county infirmary was meant to serve as an asylum for Billy Williams and his relations, Commissioners Shoemaker and Shroyer and their relations, and a motley horde of political hangers-on. If anything happens to be left, after Billy’s friends and relatives are served, the inmates get it. Making a political football out of a charitable institution has gone on long enough. It must be stopped, and it is the duty of the circuit judge to order a grand jury investigation.

WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT— It is becoming painfully apparent, from day to day, that both of the daily newspapers of Muncie have firmly established themselves as charter members of the Ananias club. Uusually these great torches of liberty and models of erudition are together on every proposition, but alas, they have fallen out on the city manager question, and now we are learning, from expert testimony, just exactly how much reliance can be placed on the statements of these newspapers. We have it from the Press that the Star is a plain, unvarnished liar. At first the Press was inclined to be merciful to its rival, but when the campaign grew warm, Major Sutton came right out in the open and declared that he would from now out, by Heck, call a spade a spade, and not a garden tool. So instead of calling the Star a rake, or a hoe or a lawn mower, he applied the short and ugly, and proved it, b’gosh. Then the Star came back at the Press and said “you’re another”, and proved it. So, from day to day, the charges of prevarication are bandied back and forth, each time with the documentary evidence necessary to back up the accusation. This pleasant little exchange of courtesies between two newspapers that have always held themselves up as the very souls of truth, is entertaining to the public, who, it might be said, have for some time past entertained doubts of their veracity, and who are now certain they were right, since hearing and weighing the evidence on both sides.

Los Angeles, May 26—“Let your conscience be your guide,” appears tc be the slogan governing bathing suit styles at Venice and other near-by beaches. The shape, color and size of beach costumes arc left to the maids who wear them. Short, one-piece suits in all colors, without stockings, predomnatc. Many tourists are terribly shocked at what they see op the beaches here—but they stick around.

SPEECHLESS WINE MAD ORGY OF MURDER Paris—A telegram from L’Orient London—Wine merchants from Cal- ' reports an extraordinary case of homifornia were landed at Cherbourg on icidal mania. A railway pointsman their way to Italy, where they are to named Le Meillcur, cut the throat of inspect a drink discovered by the a woman aged 65; matally slashed Italian merchants, said to be as pleas- Mmc. Connan, cut the throat of Mme. ant to the palate as an alcoholic wine, * Le Hars and shot another railroader with a reminiscence of the latter’s , before he was overpowered,

flavor. An American wine merchant said ruefully: “This make-believe liquor may taste like alcoholic wine, look like it, and even smell like it, but as a nigger once said to me, won’t have the conversation in it.’

Atlantic City, N. J., May 26—The local police arc determined this year to suppress radicalism—in bathing suits.

Chicago, May 26—Two good reasons for wearing a 1921 model bathing suit will be displayed by women who visit Chicago beaches this year. Form-fitting, one-piece suits will be shown, sold and worn, investigation showed. Stockings will be the exception rather than the rule. Movies of bathing girls have just about standardized the dem.tnd for

suits.

Cleveland, May 26—Cleveland beaches will be “safe and sane” this sum-

mer.

Beach censors will look with disfavor on any attempt by milady to show her bare-limbs. Stockings must be

MUNCIE POST—EDITORIAL ffi ffl ffl ffl ffl ffl Considerable is being heard in Muncie these days about the sacred constitution and the government of the revered Pilgrim fathers. A constitution that was sufficient for the needs of thirty million people who never saw a train of cars, cut their wheat with a cradle and read their Bible by the light'of a tallow dip, would hardly fill the bill in these days of rapfd transit, wireless telegraphy, flying machines and short skirts; the revered fathers were a bunch of bigoted scalawags who wore peaked hats, cheated the Indians and burned witches at the stake. For heaven’s sake, let us look forward, instead of backward!

If the controversy over the city manager question is productive of nothing else, it has caused the Press and the Star to tell the truth about each other. Sick ’em Tige!

Runnel Lockwood is not only against the city manager plan, but as soon as it is defeated he will go farther and tell the boys who to nominate for mayor. We will say one thing for the kunnel, and that is that his main fault is not modesty. Having elected Harding and named the cabinet, the kunnel will now devote his spare time to running Muncie politics at long range.

LURE OF MOVIES REACHES JAMAICA

Carries Along “Jazz” Bands and Short

Skirt to Dusky Belles

London, May 26—One might suppose that when the soft green shores of the illand of Jamaica were reached one was out of the range of motion pictures and “jazz” bands, of the bobbed headfe and silk stockings. But this, a writer in the London Daily Mail declai’es, is not at all the case. The screen has conquered even this remote corner, and since the simple Jamaican native has seen the “movie” star's, “jazz” bands and bobbed heads, rouge and short skirts have followed as the night the day. Fashion on the

footsteps of the films.

The dusky Jamaican bell bobs her black locks if they are not too kinky to stand the process, and she covers

problem before, but he fears that this will come with the ambitions which the pictures create. “I’ll show you an example of what I mean,” he said. “You shall see my barmaid. A year ago if she had shoes and stockings she wore them, tmt if she did not have them she never minded, and her skirt was modest in its length. Look at it now.” She came in answer to his loud call of “Lucinda!” and stood in the ’doorway smiling timidly at him. She v/as very dark of skin, but she had tried to overcome nature with a heavy layer of pearl powder and a coating of rouge, while her lips were as red as the hi-

biscus.

Her thick black hair was cut short round her neck and oiled to something of straightness. Her frock was of bright blue cheesecloth, lace-trimmed, and its knee-length revealed the thin-

her dark skin with a pearl powder j nes t of red silk stockings, overlaid with rouge of a strange dark “Look at her!” roared Papa Jones, red. She grinned and I smiled sympathetiSh6 has taken tucks . in her print | cally, but his wrath would not be ap-

skirts and if she goes barefooted and | peased.

bareheaded all week she appears in vivid silk stockings on Sunday, when also she wears a hat she has woven herself crushing it down on her bobbed hair and twisting round it an imprest sionistic scarf such as the heroine In a screen play wears when she goes

forth to meet the hero.

There are many folk on the island who think that the screen play is going to be a great educational factor in the life of the negro and that already there is a marked improvement in his manners and customs which schools

have not been able to effect.

But there is one man here who trembles for the future of the Jamaican girl of color. He says that the screen is making her vain and extravagant; that she wants to spend her money on clothes and “make-up”; that she wants to dance to wild music, and that her “boy” must now take her to restaurants instead of sharing a cocoanut with her under the shade of a tree. This man is a local character known as Papa Jones, a giant who employs a number of girls in his little hotel. Kingston has never known a servant

"Go back w'hence you came!” he ordered sternly and she vanished with a

swish of her skirts.

But I could hear Lucinda tittering outside with a group of her friends who were also bent on bringing fash-

ion to the island.

MAN FOR SALE

New York—Charles Wieland, a moulder of Hamilton, out of work, offers to sell himself for a specified time in the hope of obtaining a position which offers permanent returns. He has a wife and child and says he wants a position that will give him a real start in life.

! LAMP TO BURN FOREVER London—For a perpetual lamp, to be: burned in memory of her late husband, Mrs. Mozelle Ezra bequeathed 3,000 rupees to the Jewish synagogue ini Calcutta. She directed that the lamp should be placed over the family pew. She left much of her $400,000 estate to charity.

Travel < S> Transport

Topics

Conducted by Goodrich In case your car is involved in a

“smash-up” get these facts down on | CENTURY OF ARMY SERVICE^?) paper pust as soon after the accident • They very much fear in the office as possible: Name, sex and address of j of the Quartermaster General at injured persons, other driver and wit- Washington that some Western wag nesses; license number of other cars; | has been trying to have a little fun exact location; date and time of day; with the Army. If he is spoofing the weather and street condition; circum- War Department, Charley Stepinthostances and blame; and make a pencil mudd certainly has succeeded, for half sketch showing details. Stay on the i a dozen veteran clerks of the Quqi--ground and talk only to your attorney. ! termaster Corps have been methodiThis is the advice of the National ’ cally searching files of the last hunSafety Council. j dred years in the hope of finding [ some record that Charley served as Senator Jones of New Mexico, has - an Indian scout from 1812 almost to

a novel scheme for raising money with date

ROAD PETITION

Notice of the filing of a Petition for the

hut as a nigger once said to me, ‘It improvement, of a highway in Center Town-

4l,„ ;+> » , ship, Delaware County, Indiana.

Notice of Piling of Petition No. 280 Notice is hereby given that Samuel H.

Bcmcndcrfcr et al., exparte have filed in the office of the Auditor of Delaware County, State of Indiana, their Petition praying for the establishment and laying out and for the paving of same with a hard surface material, a e rtain highway herein described; and for the paving with a hard surface material, the grad- :— j.t- ^ - *-< high-

?hway

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

which to construct, repair and main- ] tain public wagon roads. His bill pro- * vides for the grant and conveyance of 500,000 acres of public lands of each of the states of New Mexico, Arizona Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah. Wyoming, North Dakota, California, Oregon and Washington, to be sold at public auction and the proceeds used solely for good roads work.

With the recent 20 percent automobile tire price reduction tires go hack to the 1913 price level but not back to the 1913 mileage service level. The 1913 tire gave an average service of -1,000 miles while the tire of today comes very close to averaging 8,000 miles. Thus a tire costing $50 then, costs one and one-fourth cents per mile of motor travel. With a 20 per cent drop in price the tire of today costs fiveeighths of a cent a mile.

Ho, for the traffic constable! In the not far distant future he’ll be a common fixture at country cross-roads. With narrow roads and constantly increasing traffic over them congestion is already apparent in many sections. At several rural points in Ohio traffic officers are now on duty on Sundays and holidays. Motorists will be glad to see rural guardians of the peace engaged in directing traffic instead of planning speed traps.

Running on under inflated tires is a dangerous practice. Soft tires make steering difficult, consume more power and may more easily be pulled off the car than when not properly inflated. When a car is traveling at a high speed and throws a tire it is extremely dangerous. Aside from the danger running on soft tires is needlessly expensive. It quickly destroys the cotton fabric of the tire and shortens its life.

A removable track for rubber tired road vehicles is one of the newest developments in the industry. Located between the front and rear regular wheels four additional wheels are provided. All wheels run on two tracks consisting of two rubberized fabric belts. With the tracks an automobile may be used in deep snow, “bottomless” roads and plowed ground. Concentration of federal aid money upon the most important state roads which have an interstate character, is the next logical step in co-operating with the several states in highway improvement, according to Senator Charles E. Townsend, chairman of the senate committee on postoffices and post reads. “Money from the national treasury expended in co-operation with the states properly calls for state anTl not county doll/irs,” he said.

Charley wants some compensation for his century of service, now that he is retired at the age of 130, and he plaintively asks if he must, “waight another 1.00 years.” which rather indicates that his financial difficulties

are not very pressing.

And, poor Lo’s story runs thus:

“Thorp, Wash.

“First you will haf to excuse my Riting as I onley learned to Rite after I waz 100 years old, I am now 130. I am a Onida and Senica Indian the Reason ov me riting to yiu iz this. I Have followed the American Army near on too 85 years az an Indian Scout scouting and spying for the Army and I Have never drawn any Pay for my services On account ovthem army officers not turning in my name for my services. “My first service waz with General Jackson at New Orlens. Fiting 'the British Red-coats then, scouting in Middle West after Bad Indians. I was with General Scott in the Old Mexican War then scouting r'n the Plains. T was with A. -T. Smithr A 1 ’ the sivil war then Back West or/cthe Plains and Rocky mountains le J;r Bad Indians. I went to Cubh with Colol Rosefent as a scout \ 1th the Ruff Riders and don my Pari to help whip

the spanyards.

“Rosefent did not get me my transportation home soe I Had to goe and work in cane fields and suggar mill until I could get enough to build me a good tight canue in whitch I cam back to the Missipia River and up to St. Louis and on up the Misurie River to great Falls Montana where I Procured too Horses and came on over to this Place to my old time white Firends House Where I stay most ov the time, his great grandfather and I were boys togeather. “Can not you Bring it to Pass soe I can gitt just Recompence for my services to this our Belovid country for all the years ov toil and Hardships I have passed through in my crountrys service? or must I waight another 100 years.

Respectively,

Charley Stepinthemudd

Thorn, Wash.”

An ethnological expert with a side line of etymological training might gathor from internal evidence that this letter was possibly written by a Caucasian of considerable education.

NOTICE TO DEALERS IN SHCOOL FURNITURE. CONCERNING DESKS, CHAIRS AND OTHER FIXTURES. ■ The Trustee} of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, will receive sealed bids on the 21st day of June, 1921. at 1 :30 p. m. on the following furniture and fixtures : Bids must be submitted separate on each schc dulo as follows : 640 School desks or high school size 210 tablet arm chairs 20 teachers chairs and 14 teacher’s desks and library tables. Samples of chairs and desks may be exhibited on the 21st, dav of June from 8 to 12 o’clock A. M. at the high school building and >’••11 descriptions and cuts must accomnanv ’earn hid. Equipment for two Domestic Science kitchens for twenty girls to each kitchen including sewing tables, pupils tables, sinks and other necessary equipment. Complete specifications and cuts must accompany' the bid for the Domestic Science equipment. Manual Art Tools and benches, sufficient to equip for 20 boys. Complete specifications and cuts must accompany each bid for the Manual art’s equipment. Bids must be filed separate for the various class furniture and equipment. The Trustees reserve the right to reject any or all of the bid ; or any part thereof. Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Ind. VINCENT W. JONES, President, EDWARD TUHEY. Secretary, GEORGE L. HAYMOND, Troasurer. May 27, June 3&H)

There is frequently danger of short circuits in the battery because of the fact that one of the terminals is located near the metal handle used for lifting the battery. To obviate this danger it is only necessary to slip a short length of rubber tubing o/er the wire at the point where the contact might be made. To do this the tubing should be slit lengthwise, slipped over the wire and taped firmly in place.

Our weekly DON’T—Don’t continue in high—in going up hills—if your motor shows the slightest hint of labor. Pushing an engine beyon-l its capacity means a terrific strain. Shift to intermediate or low the moment you feel your engine is ove:-taxed. In shifting from a higher a lower gear accelerate slightly just before attempting to mesh with lower gear. This is necessary in order to accommodate the higher speed of the lower gears.

It would be interesting to know where paragraphers got their jokes during the time of Adam, who had no mother-in-law. * * * Next to not having an automobile ourselves, we would rather our friends

NOTICE TO ROAD CONTRACTORS State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Notice is hereby Riven that the board of commissioners of said county, at their office in the court house at Muncie, Indiana, will receive scaled proposals for the improvement of a certain highway 2648 feet in length, in said county by grading, draining and paving with gravel as set out in the specifications, plans and profile now on file in the office of said county, by and under the laws of the State of Indiana. Said scaled proposals will he opened and the contract awarded for said improvement on the 18th day of June, 1921. Bids or proposals will be received up to ten o’clock A. M. on said date. The said road to be improved is located in Liberty township, in Delaware county. Indiana, and is to be known as the Ralph H. Strong et al road when so improved. Bids will be for the completion - of the said improvement in accordance with the plans, prefile -and specifications in the office of the auditor of said county, and shall include all labor and material for said work. In no case will extra compensation be allowed for any additional work alleged to have been done by the contractor or contractors to whom is awarded the contract. Each bid shall he accompanied by a personal or surety bond in a sum equal to double the amount of the bid filed for the work bid on. to be approved by the board of commissioners of said county. Said bond shall be conditioned for the faithful performance of the work; the sureties, if personal, shall to rt-dder.t freeholders of the State of Indiana, one of whom shall be a resident of Delaware county. Said bond shall be for the benefit of any person, persons- or corporation who shall suffer any loss or damage by reason of any such bidder failing or neglecting to enter into a contract to perform such work awarded by the said board of commissioners or to carry out the same in any particular or to pay for any labor or material which may have been furnished to any such contractor or contractors cr to any sub-contractor, agent or superintendent under him, in the construction of said work. Said improvement will he let as a whole to the lowest responsible bidder upon affidavit of non-c.o!lusion, which must he submitted with the bid. and upon failure to submit such affidavit such proposal or bid will be rejected by the board; and the board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Time for the completion of said work will be agreed upon after the letting of said contract by said board of commissioners and successful bidder. This 14th day of May, 1921. JONAS F. SHOEMAKER, C. L. RETHERFORD, SHERMAN J. SHROYER, Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana. Attested: JAMES P. DRAGOO. Auditor, Delaware County, Indiana. May 20, 27, June 3

OFFICE OF THE BOARD

212 Wysor Block.

NO pnm™ CONTRACTORS AND TO THE | ^

, u 1 • \ , . , ,, ... , as established and to be established being in lsct-.ce is her-by given to the public and Ccnter TownshiPi De ,aware County, Indiana; o all contractors, that the Board of Public and which said Petition is in the following

U- ks of . the City of Muncie, in the State of words and ^ to . wit:

Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the con-, State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss ; strucUen.. m said City, according to the re-, Before the Honorable Board of Commissicnr.pcctivv improvement resolution:-, below men- | r . rs of the County of Delaware, State of Ind

tione I, and according to the plans, Pro«l<w. I ia na, Aprii Session.

drawings and specifications therefor on file m | Petition for the improvement of a highway the office of said Board of each of the public ; in Center Township, Delaware County, State

imprrvoments horem below nejrribcM, to-wit: } 0 f Indiana,

i. U. No. 77-1-1021, for cement sidewalk on 19^1

Kts£t" f Blainc StTCet from Wimar<1 t0 | To the Honorable Beard of Commissioners

Each bidder is also to file with the Boan

offidavit that, there has has been no collision ; represent that the within Petition is signed by in any wav affecting aiiid bid. according to the j flfty or more resident freeholders and voters t'-inio ot Sec. . 5, of the Act of March 6th, | 0 f Center Township in Delaware County,

95,

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aii • ’ L “ , ‘ ,, , , . I State of Indiana. And said Petitioners prav AH suen proposals should be sealed, and f cr t j, e improvement of a certain hio-hwav in lit day ot June, 1921 and each such proposal I alrtady f aid out and e st»blhh-d, and that a must be accompanied by a certified check pay- pai t of caid highway to be improved is to ahk to said City for the sum of $100 00, j ^ laid out and established. Your Petitionwinch shall be forfeited to said City as liquid- > ,, r , would f urt her represent that they re-

ated dam.ages. if the bidder depositing the same shaii fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in ca":<? a contract shall be awarded him on such accom-

panying proposal.

Said Board reserves the right to reject any

and all bids.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. i itiiiiiiiwuhwhiith irrn >mi» i iiww———imi—

NOTICE OF LETTING OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES Muncie, Ind., May 25, 1921. The trustees of the school city of Muncie. Delaware County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals at their office, 226 High School building, Muncie, Indiana, up to 11:30 p. m. of Tuesday, June 21st, 1921, for the furnishing of Hie following supplies for the several School buildings in the city of Muncie, as per specifications on file in the above named office of trustees: General Supplies Janitors’ Supplies and Printing Stock Supplies. Th cut ion being re-,crvcd by the said trustees for contracting for anv or all of the above named supplies. Blanks for bidding upon any or all of the above may be had at the office of said trustees, 226 High School building, Muncie, Indiana. To insure their consideration all proposals must he made out in regular form be fully itemized and accompanied by the affidavit required by law. The trustees reserve the right to reject any or all bids. TRUSTEES SCHOOL CITY" OF MUNCIE, INDIANA. May 27, June 3&10

NOTICE OF LETTING OF SCHOOL COAL Muncie, Ind., May 12th, 1921. The Trustees of the school city of Muncie, Delaware County. Indiana, will receive sealed proposals at their office, 226 the High School building, Muncie, Ind., up to 12 o'clock noon, of Tuesday, June 7th, 1921. for the furnishing of coal for use in the several school buildings in the city of Muncie, as per specifications .on file in the above named office of tru .tecs. Proposals will be received upon any or all of the following named coals and upon mine run and screened lump of each kind: Best ‘quality West Virginia splint coal. TV st quality Hocking Valley lump coal. Best quality Indiana Linton coal. No. 4. Best quality West Virginia Fairmont coal. B-^st quality Kentucky coal. The orjticn being reserved by the said trustees of contracting for either kind of coal or for each kind in such quantities as they may in contract elect. Blanks for bidding upon any or all of the above may he had at the office of said trustees, 226 the High school building. Muncie, Indiana. To insure their consideration, all proposals must he made out in regular form, be fully itemized and accompanied by the affidavit required by law. The trustees reserve the right to reject any or all bids. VINCENT W. JONES. President GEORGE L HAYMOND, Treasurer. EDWARD TUHEY, Secretary, Board of Education. May 13, 20&27

NOTICE TO BIDDERS FOR BUILDERS’ HARDWARE FOR THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING, LINCOLN SCHOOL BUILDING AND BLAINE SCHOOL ' BUILDING OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE, INDIANA Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Superintendent of Schools in the City of Muncie, Indiana, at the High School Building, until 2:30 o’clock, on the 10th day of June, 1921, for the furnishing of all builders’ hardware for The Junior High School Building, Lincoln School Building and for the Blaine School Building, in accordance with the Specifications and Schedule for the hardware of said buildings, which are on file at the office of the Superintendent of Schools, Muncie, Indiana, and in the office of Cuno Kibele, Architect, 333-335 The Johnson, Muncie, Indiana. Copies of the Specifications and Schedules may be obtained at either office. Proposals for the hardware for the various buildings must be accompanied with a certified check for the amount herein stated, and if awarded the contract the successful bidder must furnish a bond to the full arount of the bid.. The certified check must be made payable to George L. Haymond, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana. Proposal No. 1. For the hardware for the Junior High School Building must be accompanied with a certified check of Three Hundred and fifty Dollars ($350.00), and if awarded the contract a bond for the full amount of the hid. Proposal No. 2. For the hardware for the Lincoln School Building must be accompanied with a certified check of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00 L and if awarded the contract a bond for the full amount of the bid. Proposal No. 3. For the hardware for the Blaine School Building must be accompanied with a certified check of Two Hundred Dollars (.$200.00), and if awarded the contract a bond for the full amount of the bid. The Board of Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids. VINCENT W. JONES, President, EDWARD TUHEY. Secretary, GEORGE L. HAYMOND, Treasurer, School Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Ind. T. F. Fitzgihbon, Superintendent of Schools. May 20&27 June 3

spectiyely own real estate and other property in said Center Township. Delaware County, Indiana, which will be liable to taxation for the costs of the improvement as herein petitioned for; and that they further represent and show that the highway already estab lished, together with the part thereof to be established in said Township and County, all of which they ask to be improved as one continuous highway, is described as follows, to-

wit:

Commeneing at the point of intersection of University Avenue and Reserve street in the City of Muncie, Delaware County, and running thence in an easterly direction on and along University Avenue to the Wheeling Avenue; and commencing at a point in the south line of University Avenue and 350 feet east of Reserve street and running thence south to North street, running thence in an easterly direction on and along said North street to Alameda avenue, thence in a sc^theasterly direction on and along the line Alameda avenue produced, to the north bank of White river, thence in a northeasterly direction to Wheeling avenue, thence beginning at the intersection of said Alameda avenue and the north bank of White river and running in a southwesterly and westerly direction and following said north bank of White river to Linden street, thence north on and along Linden street one square to Gilbert street, thence west on and along Gilbert street to McKinley Evcnue, thence north on and along McKinley avenue to Riverside avenue, thence west on and along Riverside avenue to its intersection with the west Jackson street pike in the southwest Quarter of Section 7, Township 20 North, Range 10 East. That, said road and highway proposed to he improved intersects with and connects with a free improved gravel road at one end thereof, and with a free improved macadamized road at the other end thereof. That all of said road and highway sought to be improved is in Center Township, Delaware County. State of Indiana. That the entire length of said road and highway sought to improved is less than three (3) miles. That said improvement would be a public utility, a,nd that the costs of the said improvement would be less than the benefits derived therefrom. That a part of said road and highway sought to be improved lies within the 'corporate limits of the City of Muncie, Indiana, and that part thereof lies without the corporate limits of said City and without the corporate limits of any City. Wo pray that said road and highway as we*"hereby ask to be established be improved by grading, and draining and paving, the same with a suitable hard surface material as provided for in specifications to be hereafter adopted by the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana. That said road and highway and that part thereof which has been established be graded and paved in conformity with the established width thereof; and that part of said highway which is to be laid out and established to be laid qut, established, graded, drained . and paved to a width to be determined by the viewers hereafter to be appointed by your Honorable Board. WHEREFORE, your Petitioners pray that that part of the road and highway as described above which has already been laid out and established be ordered improved and construct4.1 ; and that that part of the said road and highway as described above be laid out, established and ordered improved and constructed so that it shall be in its entirety one continuous road and highway; and that viewers and a competent engineer or surveyor be appointed to view said road and lay out and prepare iilans and specifications for the same and to do any and all things necessary for the establishment and improvement of said road and highway; and that bonds be issued in payment for said improvement, and that said bonds shall*run for the period of ten (10) years, and bear interest at the legal rate, payable semi-annually. Samuel H. Bemenderfer Fred F. Reasoner Geo. E. Dugan Lemuel Fowler Fenj. F. Fowler Frank Traster Harry M. Brammer Vere C. Sutton W. M. Sample C. A. Johnson J. L. Stucky Edmond H. Brammer Byrl Whitehead C. H. Church Jesse L. Ward John Valentine Robert W. Maggs W. H. Ballard P. W. Jordan H. B. Shriner J. B. Hopping Dave Kallmyer H. Peterson F. S. Glenn Frank J. Miller Geo. S. Hackett S. A. Pershing John W. Fahrner S. B. Perdue F. L. Wachtell H. D. Hartley A. B. McIntosh J. C. Blakely C. F. Blease Geo. E. Cox S. E. Reeves Frank W. Sowar W. F. Maggs R. M- Friedley Warth A. Baldwin Guy I. Ilagerty S. R. Graves C. J. McCracken Ghas. E. Watkins W. Gruber H. E. Millspaugh James M. Berry O. P. Kirp Sam Snider Wm. T. Cowley I>. M. Williamson Carl D. Moore Dell C. Sipe Ora E. Dawson F. D. Conyers Otis S’. Carey John R. Moore Fay J. Jump E. E. Michener A. F. Howell W. W. Trullender E. P. Williams J. H. Hultz Ixiuise Kern Roy Hurtt Wm. Hardsog J. T. Pickerill Ed. J. McGuff That the Auditor of said Delaware County, State of Indiana, fixes Tuesday, the 5th day of July, 1921, at the hour of 10 o’clock a. m., at the office of the Board of Commissioners in the Courthouse in the City of Muncie, in said Delaware County, Indiana, as the time and place when and where said Petition will be presented to and heard by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Delaware, in the State of Indiana, and as the time on which proof of posting and publication of the notice of the pendency of said Petition will be made and heard by said Beard of Commissioners. JAMES P. DRAGOO, Auditor Delaware Co., Ind. J. EARL FOUTS, Attorney for Petitioners. May 20&27

DISEASE BY AIRPLANE

London—To check the spread in this; country of infectious disease brought by aliens arriving in aeroplane, Col. Heald has been appointed assistant medical officer for the purpose of inspecting all persons arriving at the Croydon terminal aerodrome.

NOTICE OF THE REFUNDING OF $45,000.a<J CITY PROMISSORY NOTES NOW DUE. The tax-payers of the city of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, are hereby notified that on the 16th day of May, 1921, the Mayor and the Common Council qf said city of Muncie, for and on behalf of said city, determined by ordinance that it was necessary to rcn :w or refund the following city obligations, to-wit:—-One promissory note, dated February lUh, 1921, calling for the sum of Twen-ty-five Thousand Dollars, and payable to the order of the Delaware County National Bank, of said city, which fell due May 11th, 1921 ; One promissory note dated February 11th, 1921, calling for the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars, and payable to the? order of the Merchants National Bank, of said city, which fell due May 11th, 1921 ; and which obligations represent money borrowed by the City of Muncie, for the General Fund in anticipation of the current revenues of the City, in course of collection; that the City of Muncie is unable to meet said obligations at this time, and it is desired and deemed necessary to borrow Forty-five Thou- / sand Dollars, with which to discharge- th'?i ' above obligations. Said note or notes to become due in ninety days from date of issue with interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, and said notes will be negotiated and cold as now provided by law. Therefore, unless objection is made by the tax payers of said city of Muncie, in the manner as provided by law, said city of Muncie, as such municipal corporation through its proper officers, and pursuant to said determination of said city, through its Mayor and Common Council, will proceed to negotiate said lean, and issue and sell said notes in said sums and amounts for the purpose of paying off the above described obligation. And the Common Council of said city of Muncie, Indiana, has directed and caused this notice to be f igned by the Mayor, and attested by the City Clerk of said city, this 16th day of May, 1921. CITY OF MUNCIE, By JOHN N. KELLY, Mayor. Attest: DENNIS CLEARY, City Clerk. May20&27

ROAD PETITION Notice of the filing of a petition for the improvement of a highway in Harrison Township, Delaware County, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that Joseph Sedam and others have duly filed their petition in the Auditor’s office of Delaware County, Indiana, which petition is now pending praying for the improvement cf a public highway in Harrison Township, Delaware County, Indiana, to-wit ;--- Commencing at the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of Section Thirty-six (36), Township Twenty-one (21) North, Range Nine (9) East in Delaware County, State of Indiana, and running thence north along the public highway already established about onehalf mile to the Bethel Pike in the south half of said Section Thirty-six (36), Township Twenty-one (21) North, Range Nine (9) East. That the North end of said road, and highway sought to be improved intersects with and connects with the Bethel Turnpike, which is an improved Free Gravel Road and the south end thereof interjects with and connects with the Township line between Harrison Township and Mt. Pleasant Township in said county and state. That the auditor of said Delaware County, State of Indiana, fixes Tuesday, June 7th, 1921, at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M., the same being the second day of the regular June Term, 1921, of the board of commissioners of said county at the office cf said hoard of commissioners in the court house in the City of Muncie, in said Delaware County. Indiana, as the time and the place when and where said petition will be presented to and heard by said hoard of commissioners of the County of Delaware, in the State of Indiana, and as the ' time of which proof of posting and publication of notice of the pendency of said petition will be made and hea''d by said ■- JAMBS P. DRAGOO. - Auditor Delaware County, Indiana. Omar G. Weir, Att’y for Petitioners. May 20&27

NOTICE TO EIDERS Notice is hereby given that until the hour of ten o’clock A. M., on Tuesday, the 7 th day of J.une, 1921, the Boar.l of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the furnishing of road material hereinafter described in specifications therefor now on file in the office of the Auditor of said County as follows : Twenty barrels of tarvia “KP” or other similar material. From 20,000 to 30,000 gallons of tarvia “B” or other similar material. Prices to be f. o. b. Muncie, Indiana, and material to he delivered before September 21st, 1921, as required by the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana. Said tarvia “B” or similar material to be delivered in tank efirs. Alternative bide will be received on 20,000 or 30,000 gallons of tarvia “B” or similar material. All bids must be filed in the office of said Auditor, and each bid shall contain the statutory affidavit of non-collusion and shall be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond in the sum of $500, signed by at least tow resident freehold sureties cf Delaware County, Indiana, or by a Surety Company to i,he approval of said Board of Commissioners, guaranteeing the faithful execution of his hid in case the contract is awarded to said bidder, and contract will be awarded to the lowest and best responsible bidder, but the Board reserves the right to reject any an;! all bids. JAMES P. DRAGOO. Auditor, Delaware County, Indiana. May 20&27

NON-RESIDENT NOTICE State of Indiana, County of Delaware, ss. Before Edward Swain, a Justice of The Peace in and for Center Township Arthur Atkinson vs. Edgar B. Ullman. Notice to non-resident. To Edgar B. Ullman. Whereas a complaint has been filed before me by Arthur Atkinson against the said Edgar B. Ullman, and an affidavit that said Edgar B. Ullman is a non-resident you are hereby notified that said came will he tried before me at my office on the ?0th day of July, 1921, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, and if you are not present said cauSe will be tried in your absence. EDV/ARD W. SWAIN, Justice of The Peace. Gene Williams, Atty. for Plf. May 20&27&June 3

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF THE BOARD 212 Wysor Block. Muncie, Ind. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND TO THE PUBLIC: Notice is hereby given, to the public and to all contractors, that the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the construction, in said City, according to the respective improvement resolutions below mentioned, and according to the plans, profiles, drawings and specification therefor on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described, to-wit: I. R. No. 775-1921, a cement sidewalk on south side of Second Street from Blaine Street west to first alley. I. R. No. 777-1921, a cement sidewalk on both sides of Tenth Street from Perkins to Port Avenues. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of:. Sec. 95, of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p 219). All such proposals should be sealed, and must he deposited with said Board before the hour of 1 :30 o’clock in the afternoon of the 1st day of June, 1921 and such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to said City, for the sum of $100.00, which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and properly to execute the required contract and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying proposal. Said Board-Preserves the right to reject any and all bids. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. May 20&27