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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

Friday,-June 1&, 1923^

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demmocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. 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 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

seem to have the curious idea that the investigation was not fair and was framed for the express purpose of whitewashing the acts of a bunch of rotten criminals, and they declare that another investigation will be held in which agents and co-conspirators of the klan in office will not only be barred out, but will be among those investigated.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15,1923.

The board of safety has washed its hands of any further participation in the acts of the department of building inspection, because, they say, they refuse to be responsible in any way for the work of Building Inspector Driscoll, whom they hold to be unfit for the job. In sponsoring the ordinance relieving the board of safety from all responsibility as to building inspection, the board and the council again publicly insulted Mayor Quick, who appointed Driscoll. , The three members of the board of safety declared a few weeks ago they would resign if Driscoll were not removed and an ordinance was passed which empowered them to take the appointment out of the mayor's hands. The mayor vetoed the ordinance and when it was discovered that there were not enough votes in council to pass it over the mayor’s veto, the board added insult to injury by getting its puppets in the council to pass the ordinance divorcing them from the building inspection department. Mayor Quick made his greatest mistake when he appointed Lloyd Kimbrough, Will White and E. M. Barrett on the board of safety after ku klux klan pressure had forced him to remove his old board. These men assume to be above the power that appointed them. They hold the mayor in contempt and take no pains to conceal it. And the sad part of it is that Mayor Quick stands for it. As everybody knew, the board of safety had no intention of resigning, no matter how the building inspector matter came out. Their ordinance failed to pass, and notwithstanding their threat to resign they are still on the job and Mayor Quick seems to be afraid, for some reason, to do what any other mayor on earth would do, kick them out and get three men on the board who are not imbued with the idea that the Three Wise Men of the East were infants in intellect as compared with the intellectual giants now on the board. Remembering that White, Kimbrough and Barrett are willing to stand sponsor for Benbow and his ku klux policeilepartment, and for the protection of Bob Grave's joint and other favored law breakers, they must be placed in the same category with the type which strains at a gnat and swallows a camel. Mayor Quick is well satisfied with his building inspection department but knows that his police department is a joke. The joke is on the mayor now, and will continue to be on him ’till he braces up and gets himself in the frame of mind where he can look these three trouble-makers straight in tlie face and tell them to go to hell. The only department in the Mayor Quick administration which is perfectly satisfactory to the board of safety, is the department run by the board of safety. They hold their noses in the presence of Mayor Quick and other city appointees and Mayor Quick stands for it! The Post-Democrat had strong hopes a few weeks ago that the mayor was going to brace up and take charge himself, but it seems merely to have been a flash in the pan. He allowed these men, whom he can fire in a minute, to publicly affront him time after time, and he knows they declare that he does not dare to demand their dis-

missal.

Mayor Quick is one of the most kind hearted and likeable men in the world and designing politicians take advantage of his easy going tolerance to impose upon him. Unless he rids himself, at once, of the men who are trying to destroy him, his administration is doomed to early shipwreck.

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GREAT IS THE WHITEWASH BRUSH. Three kluxers, Prosecutor Van Ogle, Chief of Police Van Benbow and City Judge Lance Coons, met in solemn conclave Friday morning and conducted a court of inquiry for the purpose of finding out who was to blame for the trouble during the klan parade a week ago Saturday night. Several of the victims of the Ku Klux outrage were called in and questioned. The first one said he was ordered to remove his hat to the parade and that when he refused he was assaulted. He had a very black eye to show for it. He was interrupted by Judge Coons, who said: “No wonder you got hit. Why didn’t you take off your hat when they told you to.” Prosecutor Ogle chimed in with the remark that anybody ought to have had sense enough to take off their hats to the parade. “You might of known you couldn’t have bucked a stone wall like that,” said he. Chief of Police Benbow evidently concurred in the noble sentiments of the prosecutor and city judge, for he looked wise and said nothing. Having thus decided to their own satisfaction that the bystanders who were insulted and assaulted by the marchers were the ones to blame for all the trouble, the three guardians of the peace and dignity of the state of Indiana, called it a day and the great investigation came to a close, the city judge giving out the cheering announcement “everybody discharged.” Of course most people will now be satisfied, since the prosecutor, police and city judge investigated and found the klan not guilty. There are some, of course, who

THE RABBIT IN THE HAT.

The controlled press of America is now busy electing Harding in 1924. The Harding army of press agents is organized to a gnat’s heel and the stage is set to twotime the American people by the ballyhoo methods of the sideshow barker. Harding is being advertised just as soap, cigarettes and patent medicines are advertised, an<i the trivial fact that Harding says he is for the worlds’ court while the Republican national organization is against it, does not prevent his advertising agents from announcing that all is harmonious in republican ranks. The wise boys of the republican organization know the Harding trick of crossing the fingers when putting out dope to catch votes. Harding is a good vote getter. He promises all things to all men. He wanted to be elected in 1920, promised everything, was elected, and fulfilled ^

nothing. His preSS agents hope tO COnfUSe the public by ‘&aid Board before the hour of 7:80 putting out millions of words that mean nothing, every- > 0 ' 0,ock in the tbe 36tl >

thing or any thing, following the well known trick of the sleight of hand performer who talks his audience blind before yanking the rabbit out of the plug hat. When one thinks that they have been born, one a minute, since the days of P. T. Barnum, there can be no doubt that the Harding press agents have a matured crop of pros-

pects to work on.

i the office of said Board of each of ! the public improvements herein be-

1 low described, to-wit:

; I. R. No. 1018-1923, For local sewer 1 in 9th street from Gharkey Street to a point 25 feet east of the east

line of Proud Street.

I. R. No. 1019,1923, For paving of Riverside Avenue from Reserve

Street to Light Street.

! I. R. No. 1020-1923, For paving- of University Avenue from Reserve

Street to Wheeling Avenue.

! I. R. No. 1023-1923, For cement j sidewalk on the south side of Gilbert : street from Walnut Street east to

; first alley.

i I. R. No. 1025-1923, For cement i alley between Jackson street and | Adams street from Franklin street j to Liberty Street. j | I. R. No. 1026-1923, For cement 1 alley between Franklin street and j Liberty street from Jackson street

| to Adams street.

Each bidder is also to file with the j Board an affidavit that there has 1 1 been no collusion in any way affect-1 ing said bid, according to the terms 1 of Sec. 95, of the Act Of March 6th, ! 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219). j All sucK proposals should be | sealed, and must be deposited 'with ,

Herb Saunders GROCER Clean Stock, Reasonable Prices, Prompt Delivery

Phone 5143

617 South Beacon

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The demand for Post-Democrats last week greatly exceeded the supply. Thousands were sold on the street, yet by Friday noon the entire edition had been practically sold out and many who tried to secure copies were disappionted. This week, by request, we are re-producing, on the opposite page, the story of the klan outrage ini Muncie. The Post-Democrat has requests from a number of cities in Ohio and Indiana for copies of the paper con-

taining this story.

If you want to keep track of events in Muncie subscribe for the Post-Democrat and have it sent to you by mail. The price is two dollars a year, in advance. There will be many things of importance you will want to read about and in order to insure getting every issue your

name should be on the mailing list.

jp the evening of tbi ?6th

\ day of June 1923, and each such pro- ‘ ' Posal must b6 accompanied by a cerOfied check payable to said City, for | the sum equal to two and one-half ; per cent. (2y 2 per cent) of City Civil Engineers’s estimate which 1 shall be forfeited to said City as I liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and ! promptly to execute the required! contract and bond, in case a con- | tract shall be awarded him on such

I accompanying proposal.

Said Board reserves the right to

! reject any and all bids.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF

PUBLIC WORKS.

Mary E. Anderson, 'Clerk. Publish, on June 15-22nd, 1923.

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF HARRISON TOWNSHIP ON BOND ISSUE

THEIBERT PHARMACY J. L. Theibert, R. Ph. Prescription Druggist 905 E. WILLARD MUNCIE, IND. Phone 3606 CUT RATE DRUG WE DELIVER

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COMPLIMENTS of A FRIEND AND WELL WISHER

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That Kluxer peeraid at Muncie ran true true to form. The flag of our country was desecrated by wrapping it about the bodies of Kluxer Queens, and then reputable Americans were assaulted by hooded thugs, because they would not doff their hats to the Kluckmnos astride their rearin’ chargers. Old Glory ilever ed such degradation before—as it has since the mobocrats began to drag it it about, spread out like a sheet or a klout for a Kleagle, and the blasphemous fiery Kross before and above it. We clearly see what always transpires when the thugs think they are in control. Pity it was that Attorney John O’Neill didn’t have a howitzer on his hip.—Winchester

Democrat.

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Two Indianapolis thugs, believed to have been part of the gang of rough necks who were employed by the Muncie klan to assault Muncie citizens, were stabbed while pulling off a similar stunt during a parade at Rushville Saturday night. The gangsters were gigged between the ribs while acting as orderly sergeants for a bunch of masked kluckerinos. The knife wielder failed to understand why he should take off his hat to women who appear in public attired in nightgowns, whose faces were covered by silly yellow masks and whose bodies were swathed in bunting.

THE GREAT SHIP “SEEANDBEE” IS NOW ON THE MAIN ROUTE The largest and most costly steamer on inland waters of the world, the Great Ship “Seeandbee,” with her sister ship “City of Buffalo,” is now operating daily between Cleveland and Buffalo. Travelers may leave Cleveland or Buffalo on C. & B. line steamers any evening at 9:00 (eastern standard time) enjoy a night of refreshing sleep on Lake Erie and arrive at destination following morning at 7:30. Automobile tourists will find this a delightful way to relieve the monotony of long overland tours, and thousands of motorists each year make use of this “Save a Day” car-by-steamer service. Railroad tickets reading between Cleveland and Buffalo (in either direction) areg ood for transportation on these steamers.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF THE BOARD

212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind., TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the assessment rolls, with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed, with the amounts of prima facie assessments, have been made and are now on file and can be seen at the office of the Board, for the following improvements, to-wit:— I. R. No. 916-1922, For sidewalk on north side of 12th street from Sampson Avenue to Perkins Avenue. I. R. No. 931-1922, For Graveling of East Seventh Street from east line of Shipley sreet to Brotherton Street. I. R. No. 961-1923, For sidewalk on

west side of Sampson Avenue from Fifth street to Twelfth Street. I. R. No. 989-1923, For Paving of the alley between Willard street and Fifth street from Franklin Street to Liberty Street. I. R. No. 994-1923, For Paving of alley between Fifth street and Willard street from Jefferson street to

Elm Street.

I. R. No. 995-1923, For Paving of

alley between Jefferson

In the matter of determining to ) issue bonds by the Board of ) Commissioners of Delaware ) County, Indiana, for the purpose) of paying for the construction of ) the Charles K. Hunter et al. road) in Harrison Township, Delaware) County, Indiana, and. other proper) ; expenses in connection therewith.) | Notice is hereby given the taxpay- : ers of Harrison Township Delaware County, Indiana, that the Board of Commisioners of Delaware County, Indiana at their regular meeting place at the Court House in the City of Muncie, Indiana, on the 28th day of April 1923, determined to issue bonds; or other evidence of indebtedness exceeding $5(JIKi;0'0. ^ j The amount of bonds proposed is $5300.00 bearing interest at five per cent. The net assessed value of all ! property in this taxing unit is $4,229,250.00 and the present indebtedhess of said Harrison Township on account of road bonds outstanding Without this issue is $79092.00. The proceeds of such bond issue are to be used for the purpose of paying for the construction of the Charles K. Hunter et al, road in said township and. other proper expenses in connection therewith. Ten or more taxpayers other than those who pay poll tax only, who feel themselves aggrieved, by such determination may appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for further action by filing a petition therefor with the County Auditor on or be- : fore the expiration of twenty-nine ! days from the 15th day of June 1923. Dated this 13th day of June, 1923. Sherman J. Shroyer Andrew Jackson John W. McCreery ] Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana. ATTEST: James P. Dragoo, Auditor Delaware County. Ind. June 15 t22

ROAD PETITION.

Hagadorn avenue to Tillotson ave- tnonies which were wrongfully withnue - held from his pay, first the $7 a month That the auditor of said Delaware insurance ihe id( should have been County, State of Indiana, fixes Tues- ...... , t , day, July 3, 1923, at the hour of 10 paid by the government and not deo’clock a. m., the second day of the ducted from the soldiers’ wages. It is regular July term, 1923, of the board manifestly wrong to exact from the of commissioners of said county at man, who hazards his life in defense the office of said board of commis- 0 f b j s C0l i n try, the expense of carrysioners, in the court house m the . . . , City of Muncie, in said Delaware ms an insurance to cover that hazard County, Indiana, as the time and the ar "l 1° deduct it from his wage.’ place when and where said petition Bursum declared the government will be presented to and heard by also “should refund the enforced allotsaid board of commissioners of the ments. “He termed this practice a County of Delaware, in the State of llberalit wIth otller le ,„ Indiana, and as the time of which , „ proof of posting and publication of money and charged it was a debt of

notice of the pendency of said pe- the government.

tition will be made and heard by “My bill also will provide for paysaid board of commissioners. ments to the veterans of $20 a month Dated June 12. 1923. for time spent in the service,” Bur-

JAMES P. DRAGOO, . , <T . , ,

Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana. sum continued. During the war Omar G. Weir, Attorney for Petition- congress raised the wage?.,of all civilers. June 15t,22 ian employes, earing less than $2,500 ■ ————— a year. The increase was $20 a month.

"MW'ffnpyviil extend this inor-ease te-—-

PREACHER JONES

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j the military and naval employes and make it retroactive to cover the period

of the war.

of grafters and confidence men who “The total cost will be $1,200,000,000. make up the organizing end of klan w e owe this money and we ought to activities. have paid it long ago. The obligation If there is an extra hot place in to make a settlement is as sacred as hell, it will certainly be reserved by the outstanding written bonds of the old Spike Tail for preachers who government. The conscience of the desert their high calling for filthy American people will force an equitkuklux klan money. able adjustment by the next congress.

REED STATION

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Notice of the filing of a petition fo r the improvement of a highway in Centre Township, Delaware County,

street and Indiana.

of all things Jewish had been buying eighty nine cent overalls of a Muncie Jew Store and reselling them to easy marks for a dollar thirty-five, the air became thick and blue and it can safely be predicted that there will be no more anti-Jew talk tolerated in that particular country store.

PAINT ROADS

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jMERCHANTS ARE WARNED AGAINST BOGUS CHECKS

other vehicle proceeding in the same direction.”

A warning of special importance to local merchants has been issued by bankers regarding the checks bearing “certified” markings. They say that checks bearing this marking should be viewed with special suspicion, rather than to be cashed on account of the presence of such an imprint. The average business man, they say, thinks that any check bearing a ruh-

Elm Street from Fifth street to first Notice is hereby given that V/ayne alley north. i De Witt and others have duly filed I. R. No. 949-1923, For sidewalk on their petition in the auditor’s office North side of Highland Avenue from °t Delaware County, Indiana, Which

Elm Street to Jefferson Street. i Portion is now pending, praying for And notice is hereby given that on t be improvement of a public highway the 26th day of June 1923, the Board m Centre Township, Delaware Coun-

will, at its office receive and hear Indiana, to-wit:

remonstrances against the amounts Beginning at the intersection of assessed against their property re- Celia avenue and University avenue spectively on said roll, and will de- or J arre tt^ street, as shown on the termine the question as to whether °I West Side addition to the such lots or tracts of land have City of Muncie, Indiana, of record in been or will be benefitted by said Book 2, Folio 97, of the records

improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll in any sum. at which time and place all owneds of such real estate may attend, in person or by representa-

tive, and be heard.

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS Mary E. Anderson, Clerk, Advertised on June 15-22-1923.

It is pointed out that such traffic ber stamp saying tbat , t )s .. certlfiea „ hues can be of great safety value .n| can be accepted wlth0ut stl but instances where the roadway passes' tbe £act , a tbat ln reC6nt montlls a under a viaduct which may have a , arge nnmber of sarety for . central p.er the white hue veiSing! gery clalmsbaye been caused

to right and left will serve to divert certIflcation .

traffic away from a pier in the center of the roadway and even on darkest and rainiest of nights this white line proves a most effective safety

device

SENATOR SAYS

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF THE BOARD

The bankers point out the statement of W. L. Barnhart, in the June popular Finance, in which he says that “in the past two years several thousand merchants have suffered through their belief that a certification stamp upon a check should give them added confidence in the document.” It has been explained by officials

ware 6 County° f In(Ban eCOr<3 h^ h f ■ De! -"' d Bursom pronounced he would intro- that It is an easy thing to get a rubUniversity avenuean" improved duce tbe 1,011118 biI1 as soon con ' ber st amp made up in imitation of that free macadam highway, known as S ress re-convened and was prepared us ed by any bank. Records of surety the Charles E. Pittenger road; j to lead the fight for its enactment, companies show that it is not necesthence running south in and along' The new Bursum bill, he said, will sary to closely imitate the bank’s said Celia avenue to the intersection be modeled after the one introduced stamp, as many checks have been streeT; thence running west inland in the Iast Congress with certain Cashed beCauSe of “ certlfied stamps’* along said Ethel street to the in- changes. • that were entirely different in size and tersection of said Ethel street with ; The bill will pay a minimum of $32, style of type from those actually in Hagadorn avenue; thence running a month to the veterans, through the ^ use hy the hank themselves. Some north in and along said Hagadorn following principal provisions: of the “certified gangs” of check crooks

^ Ref “ nata e ^ pay- carry around a half dozen stock stamps

the City of Muncie, Indiana; thence ments ’ averaging $7 a montb per man -i COmpriSmg the moSt C0mm011 bank runnimg west in and along said God- i 2 - Repayment of all enforced allot- names. In the outfit of the “certifica-

ments, ranging from $5 to $15 a month,

and

3. Payment of a

212 Wysor Block

Muncie, Ind., man avenue and what is commonly NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND known as the. “River Road” through TO THE PUBLIC: the west half of the northwest quar-

Notice is hereby given, to the pub- te r of Section 17, and the northeast . . .. . lie and to all contractors, that the quarter of Section 18, all in Town- wa se increase of $20 a month for serv’

Board of Public Works of the City ship 20 North, Range 10 East, to ;he of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, west line of said quarter section; invites sealed proposals for the con- thence north about 40 rods to and struction, in said City, according to terminating at an improved free the respective improvement resolu- gravel road running north and runtions below mentioned, and accord- ning west from said point of termiIng to the plans, profiles, drawing nation; also, a highway known as and specification therefor on file in Godman street running east from

ices during the war (equal to the increase given civilian employes dur-

ing the war.)

Bursum declared his new bill would

“contain no gratuity.”

“It will simply provide for the refunding to the ex-service men of

tion gang” which was captured recently in a Chicago hotel were a “First

“retroactive” National” and a “Central Trust” stamp

and also three different sizes of moveable types for imitating other styles

of certification.

A halibut taken in Alaska in 1906 weighed 365 pounds. Brazil is finding a great demand for its snake bite serum.

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