Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 16 May 1924 — Page 4

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WHERE WAS FRED (Continued Prom Page One)

two sacks of sugar, he carried home ; one night recently? ! I What were you going to do with ; the fire bell, if you had not been ] compelled to replace it in thefi re de-

FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1924.

ANT1-W1LLMS CANDIDATES WHO BRIEVE THEY WERE CHEATED ARE DEMANDING RECOUNT OF VO®

MORE MANAGERS THAN VOTES.

They say sediment has collected in the meters when we P artment?

have one hundred and fifteen pounds water pressure but Have you recovered the $200 that the better thinking citizens of Newark think the only wasm issing from the treasury of place sediment has collected is on the brain of the klan the local K ameha? administration of the city. 1 “ cWe Now when we consider this wonderful personal work-, Do you expect to be a candldate

er Of Rev. Wright S church who seems very efficient in his for Governor? Web Jordan, defeated for the long when they learned the short term various lines, he seems to surpass in one line, that is the , Just what was that $10,000-a-year- term for commissioner, Nathan to which Jordan was elected, will not line of young tender girls from twelve to fifteen years old'. ' oosition you turned down, because' Thornburg, who lost for commission- expire until January 1, While he is a 100% American he has not had one hundred you felt you had been called to serve er t0 And y Jackson and Francis and his bunch quit titter

wives, yet he has ninety-seven yet to get. He is a tinner on. '“Vrat^fihfrenaon tor turn,

the sideline but very inefficient and can never hold a job ing it down?

only during the busy season. When Fred (alias Red) j Did you think the graft would be Taylor was in court the first time charged with contribut- better in Newark? ing to the delinquency of young girls and was sentenced to 11 "

jail, serving part of his time, he obtained bail by J. W.

Weekley the klan tinner and sheet metal man at corner of j su ^ y ^ d ^ ou and Charlie Taylor Indiana and Front streets, (Mrs. Weekly, about 175% ; hitting ’em now? Any more talk is very efficient in her lines. I about black eyes, or blue ones?

This week Taylor, or “Red” as he is better known was ; Does Harry Jennings report at the great interest here. | them in each precinct,

arrested on a charge preferred by one girl twelve and an- I P atro1 station, like Bill Ingler, or do j The three plaintiffs are not klans-1 This is being investigated and as

‘ ‘ ‘ * ’ — 'you meeth im selsewhere? j men and are pronounced anti-Wil- federal officers were being voted for.

When are you going to put the roll.; Hams men. The Williams gang was (judge Anderson may have another

ers under Jim Gorman?

How are you getting along with /our plans for “accumulating” the

1926. Billy

quit tittering and went

Shaw, defeated for the nomination to tottering again when it dawned for state senator have filed a petition upon them that if Web Jordan is in the circuit court asking for a re- elected he will be in office thirteen count of the votes. ; months instead of six weeks. There are many apparent indica- j it is said that certain negro lawtions that votes might have been breakers, protected by the klux-re-thrown out which would make a ma- publican machine, used real Tamterial difference in the result and a many tactics on primary day by recount, which will carry with it a hauling colored voters, who hang scrutiny of the hundreds of ballots around one of the protected dives, to ; which were rejected, is awaited with five different precincts and voting

other fifteen years old, who with their mother went before the probate judge and had an affidavit sworn out charging Red with contributing to the delinquency of the girls. The girls retracted however when it came to a show down as their father is employed at Cedar Hill cemetery in Newark under the klan administration and knew he would lose his job before night if he allowed these girls to testify against a klan official. Of course it is a good idea for a man like Taylor to belong to the klan in order to have

protection if for no other reason.

We expect to hear that Rev. Weimer will have Taylor help out up at his church if Rev. Wright can spare him for a short time. What a wonderful thing this kind of re-,. .

ligion is. Is standing around burning a cross and singing ! U am S ° tmS paid resu

“Blest be the Tie That Binds” and “The Rugged Cross” 1 — all the religion these two preachers and Taylor with a lot of others of the same stripe that are known to in habit the

klan hall know?

Fred (alias Red) Taylor says the Knights of Kamelia

are too stale for him, he prefers the Junior Kamelias. Red would surely have gone to the penitentiary this time, just as sure as the sun sets. We wonder if the klan tinner Weekley at the corne of Indiana and Front streets and Windy Helliconious Knownothing Stevens and his crowd

can work this thing for Taylor another time.

ONCE NOTED FOR HOSPITALITY NEWARK NOW TRAFFIC TRAP By R. O. Osevelt.

Three Propositions.

Newark, Ohio. May l^^The^Ume-Assisted-th.e. thief to escape! ■was, not such a great while ago, Good K. K. K. doctrine. when Newark had a reputation for — gracious hospitality that extended “Windy” Stevens Loses on

from the pine clad hills of Maine to the gulf-swept ’shore of Texas, from

.. , . . . Our wonderful

the snow - capped mountains of

H JNT

Washington to the orange groves of Florida. But how she has fallen!

Now a TRAFFIC TRAP!

mayor, “Windy”

H. N. Stevens, has fallen down on three big propositions which he was

going to put through,

j He was going to take over the

Motorists entering the city are City Hospital and run it himself- HE ■warned to bring with them a full IS NOT. surveying equipment, in order that He was going to reorganize the they may park their cars in accord- City Board of Health and fire Drance with the ruling of the traffic W. H. Knauss, the best health cornexperts of the klan-infested city ad- missioner Newark ever had. HE IS ministration. NOT. White lines painted on the curb He was going to annex the Lick—on the curb only—indicates the an- ing County Fair Grounds to the city gle at which cars must be parked, and exploit them for the benefit of Drivers find it easy to spot their the K. K. K. HE IS NOT. cars between the marks, but without The first two propositions were Instruments it is almost impossible killed several weeks ago, the third to park them at the exact degree de- one quietly died this week when the manded by the orders. j County Commissioners administered A stranger coming into the city— the ether. Swank didn’t kill that dog.

parks between the lines, thinking, as

any rational man would, that he was Said

properly parked. Along comes one. of our koo koo kops with a tag, or- !

dering the driver to appear before the „ * * i. „ ,_ . Mayor ‘Windy” Stevens said he koo koo klaihff, because, forsooth, the „ , . x-. . , , ’ . „ . . wanted to annex the Fair Grounds

rear wheels of his car were 3 inches x

. ^ ^ ^ , to the city because he could police out of line with his front wheels. Dol- ,, , » ^ .x», ^ _ the ground better than the sheriff’s lar and costs, $11.95. , „ v.

. . office could- Could he? Then why

.■ What an advertisement for a city! , , v* ^ *0 ( * hasn’t he caught that sugar thief?

’ (Corn whisky is selling at a lower Deportment Is Rapidly !pr . oe r . ght now in Newark (han „ Dxpnuding, but I itj is ro e. ba!} 1(ir two y eare bu , y OU don't hear

Mayor “Windy” Stevens has added two new officers to the plain clothes 4>qoad- The names have not been published heretofore, hut I am able to announce them as Stool Pigeons Harry Jennings and Bill Ingler. Dope peddlers and bootleggers had better watch their foot a little, unless they have a permit from the King and his dog-torturing chief.

He Could Give Fair Grounds Better Police Protection Thau Sheriff

of any arrests, except those made by the sheriff Which has the better force, the mayor or the sheriff?

Is it true that you have made a payment on that bill you owe the university, incurred when you were

studying for the ministry?

Is it true that Cemetery Superindent harlie Harris was unable to locate a family lot in the cemetery for a Newark family, and 'that the funer1 had to hep ostponed until he found

it?

Is it true that Charlie said: “I do notk now a d—n thing about this

Why does Jim Fitzsimmons’ ambulance make so many trips to Cincin-

nati and points south?

given a severe headache this week j class before him if the report is true.

TWO KLUCK MEMBERS OF ELWOOD POLICE BOARD WERE SOAKED GOOD AND PLENTY AT THE POLLS MAY 6

Elwood, Ind., May 16.—The citizens 1 of Elwood demonstrated on primary j day that the popularity of the two j klan members of the police board, I Andrew H. Hamilton and Albert

birds who made themselves so immensely popular in Elwood by breaking up the Elks’ indoor fair. If Mayor Foust is in sympathy with the

' Klapp, is not what it w T as cracked up | ni c n who elected him he wdll fire

NOTES FROM NEWARK.

Kluck Kouncilman C. L. Search will

to be.

Hamilton thought he wanted to be state senator on the democratic ticket but when the votes were counted, and he found himself snowed under

themselves with the party of Ed Jackson and Big Mitt Stephenson. Klapp and Hamilton are the two

these misfits.

The mayor refused to allow a fiery cross to be displayed on the city hall on the Saturday night before the primary. The mayor is slowly, but very slowly, improving since the time he allowed the pagan emblem to shine on the municipal building some

months ago.

He is severely criticized for what he permitted to be done to Butch Walters, deposed chief of police, who

At that

Elwood Butch, a private citizens, has many more friends in Elwood than the weak mayor who permitted a klucker police board to oust an efficient of-

ficer Because of klan prejudice. Elwood democrats are for Critten-

berger first, but as a second choice

they are for George Durgan.

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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, drawing and specification therefor on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below

described, towit:

I. R. No. 1022-1923. For ro-surfac-ing of Sixth Street from Walnut

Street to Hoyt Avenue.

I. R. No. 1140-1924, For paving of Alameda Avenue from Ash laud Avenue to Riverside Avenue; and F.eech

wood Avenue

to Reserve Street.

CLAIMS MOON IS CHILD OF EARTH

Scientist Says It Was Part

of New Zealand.

Kill The Little Dogs; Let Sugar Thieves Escape.

After firing six shots at a young pup the other day, succeeding only in badly wounding it, Chief of Police Swank, after entertaining the women in the neighborhood with some choice specimens of profanity, left for police headquarters, there to ponder on ■what he had better do about the su-1

Wants More Pay, But He Hasn’t Caught Sugar Thief

An ordinance was introduced In council this week to increase salary of chief of police to $250 a month, the second increase asked for in four months. He also wants eight more patrolmen. And the city is so badly busted that it cannot repair streets around the public square. Some won-

derful financiers we’ve got.

A Few Questions For K. K. K. “Windy” To Answer. To Answer. Why don’t your police force get the sugar thief? Are you obliged to permit Chief of

gar thief who got away. j Police Swank to exercise his own He suspended the patrolman who sweet will In all things, including the notified the owner of the sugar of j grouping of the best women of New-

not permit his wife to buy groceries' by a real American, he found out from a Catholic Or Jew. He says he j what the democrats of Elwood and will devour burdock roots and; dog ^ ad i son county really think of a man

biscuits and drink the first suds from j in a mask ‘ .

his dirty socks, before any unnatural-' K,a PP aspire o e emocra c ized food will be served on his $700 I P recinct committeemen but his fel-

feed bench. Search is a foreman at ‘ low citizens residing in Ms F™, rr,r^ hv th v, the Wehrle Stove Works and wears a hilariously and with great enth ? siasm *1'* '

gas mask while on duty to avoid con-1 voted for tbe other fellow - tamination from his Catholic employ-! democrats have purged themselves of ers. He always removes his shoes in i kl an influence. They refuse to be the alley and hangs them on the fence | seen on same s i de of the street ’till morning. He doesn’t believe in 1 wii^ 1 democrats who have aligned

taking any chances. He is the mayor’s chief trump and votes as he is told.

He is a typical 100% Kook.

Paste These In Your Telephone Book.! Klucker Griggsby sells King Nut Oleomargarine. Griggsby was ashamed to join in Newark and joined the Cambridge outfit. Wife a&o belongs. Lew Beckman, eats it and drinks it. His Kooky Kutter belongs to the Ka-

melia.

Andy Harter, self starter Kook Kop. Carries a piece of lead pipe for a

mace.

Officer Murray, sired by Murray Senior and damned by everybody. Hired, fired and hired again. Fred Sinsabaugh, binders, mowers, trucks, hog troughs, roup remedy and manure spreaders. Farmer Hupp, south of town, carries his shimmie in a burlap bag. On rainy nights roosts on the fourth pole in the kuckoo’s nest. Schnaidt Bros., Charley and Ed, So cialists and slop brewers. Homer Fonts, Buckeye Rolling Mill. Thinks Evans wrote “Kolumbia Gem of the Ocean.” O. S. Young, B. & O. employe. Will never be old. Pure Oil Ball Team, hangs out at^ Old Homestead. All of the ancestors^ of this bunch came over in the Mayflower wearing a pair of fiery crosses for ear bobs. If you want patriotic 100% baseball, follow this bunch. Leslie Groves has opened a Kook filling station in a protestant church at the corner of Fourth and Church streets. Fire quarts to the gallon. Society Page. Mrs. Jim Fitzsimlmons, kamelia leader and designer of shrouds. Mrs. Officer Huibaugh, Tenth street keeps step to the tom-toms in all pa-

rades.

Helen Jackson, klucker ex-nun and she record holder of 100% lies will speak here soon, according to statement of local kamelia kommittee, North Park Place, sheiks watch this gold-digger. She’ll soak you ten bucks for dinner with the trimmings. WANTED—Fat reducer. Must remove 110 lbs. before June Konklave at Buckeye Lake. Apply in person at the Kamelia Koop, K. of P. Hall.

There was much comedy and some real tragedy in the recent primary campaig in Delaware county. Milt Gwinnup had more than his share of the tragedy. In fact Milt was the prize goat of the campaign. When Milt decided to run for sheriff, by grab, somebody told him it takes money to be elected. He now knows that it takes more oh less jack to be defeated. Out of approximately twelve thousand republican votes cast for the various candidates for sheriff, Gwinnup received 185, and if all reports are true they musf have cost him about five dollars a head. He was first tapped by the ku klux klan. He owed eighteen dollars back dues and the head jimplecute told him he couldn’t be an honest-to-goodness klan candidate unless he slipped the eighteen to the immortal whizzer. He paid the kleagle and then took on two or three county managers who controlled all the votes. All he had to do was Jo pay these managers every time he saw them. They did the rest. One of his managers, who controls all the votes in Eaton and Union township, tapped Milt’s bank roll and now Milt is wondering who cast the lone vote that he received in that precinct, which is one of the largest in the county. Another manager, who controls all the colored votes in the twelfth precinct, agreed, for seventy-five dollars, cash in hand, to educate the colored voters of that district to overcome their prejudice against the klan. He received exactly one vote in the twelfth. In the fourteenth, for twenty dollars, he hired the man who has that district in his pocket to work at the polls for him on election day. At noon the willing worker assured his employer that he would get at least half the votes in the precinct. He didn’t get a darned yote. The man he had hired didn’t even vote for him. In Monroe township where one of his highly paid | hired help tells everybody how to vote, he emerged “ with six to his credit. ^ At first Milt was inclined to be sore hut he now believes it was his own fault. Fie never ran for office before. He may run again. If so his expensive first lesson may be of value. The next time he runs he will choose managers who haven’t got quite so much influence. And the worst part of it is that he can’t come to town any more without being run ragged by a flock of precinct workers who were hired by his managers with instructions to collect from him.

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

Department of Public Works Office Of The Board 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind.

the robbery, and recommended an increase in salary for the officer who

ark with bootleggers? Where did Harry Murray get the

Notice To Contractors and to the Public: Notice is hereby given to the pub lie and to all contractors, that the Board of Public Works of the City of

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tar diametrically opposite, another piece of the earth’s surface stretching out into the Atlantic almost necessarily followed the rest, and a ring of debris surrounding the earth and analagous

T . . _ i to the rings of Saturn was thus formed. London.—The secretary of the nova ; Tlle nn tm . n from tbe AtlanMc waa Roeiety, m lua discourse at the Royal | posslbly some j.ooo m nes in diameter.

Institution, has made another notable contribution to astronomical theory. According to the well-known nebular hypothesis of Laplace It was supposed that the solar system was originally a very extended rarefied gaseous mass —what we now call a nebula, though

nc ‘ ' (Laplace had no knowledge of the acfrom Alameda Ai enue ^ ex } gtenc . e ne | ju i }ie — and that, as

it contracted through gravitation, it

I. R. No. 1142-1924, For cement I threw off successive rings of matter sidewalk on both sides of Eleventh from its edge which ultimately eon-

Street from Rochester Avenue to

Gilman Avenue.

I. R. No. 1143-1924, For cement sidewalk on both sides of Thirteenth Street from Old City Limits to one square east of Elliott Street. I. R. No. 1144-1924, For paved alley between Beechwood Avenue and Ashland Avenue from Reserve Street

one square east.

Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in anyway affect ing 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 be deposited with said Board before the hour of 7:30 o’clock in the evening of the 20th day of May. 1924, and each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to said City, for the sum equal to two and one-half per cent (2 1-2 per cent) of City Civil

Engineer’s estimate which

forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to exeeute the required contract and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying

proposal.

Said Board reserves Che right ti reject any and all bids. By Order of the Board of Public

Works.

Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Publish on May 9-16-1924.

densed into the planets.

Theory Long Under Suspicion. This theory has been under grave

suspicion for some time and Doctor Jeans gave what appears to be conclusive reasons for finally rejecting it. He bas previously shown that stars are probably born in a manner very

similar to that imagined by Laplace, . J , i • xhot smaller bodies, like the plhnets, j If™?' May day wiH tie observed m New

primary the klan issued instructions to klansmen as to how to vote, and instances the recent state convention in Georgia which oused Clark Howeli as national committeemen and elected

in his place John S. Cohen.

In connection with the Georgia situation, the Underwood committee’s statement quotes what purports to be the text of a klan order signed by Nathan Bedford E. Forrest, grand ( dragon, realm of Georgia, saying: “It

Rd&y Day to So Festivsj jis the earnest desire of Mr. MeAdoo Day for U. S. Children hi 8 friends elect Major John S. New York.—The President of the Cohe ( n . as national committeeman, ’ United States, the governors of all the aud * n ever V sense he is acceptable slates, together with city officials and *° us an( i w e are assured that if he ministers, as well as millions of fa- goes to New York the klan’s interthers and mothers, are to unite on ests will be ably protected.”

May day this year in dedicating the j

35,000.000 children of America to j

health and happiness.

Headquarters for the great undertaking, which is under the auspices of the American Child Health association, have been established at 370 Seventh avenue, New York city. Led by officials of the association, among whom are many of the leading American authorities on social prob-

require quite a different explanation. A discussion of the various possibilities leads to the conclusion that, so far as our present knowledge goes, there is only one method left for their origin, and that is the disturbance of the sun in its infancy by the close approach of another sun. The gravitation attraction of the visitor would draw matter out of the sun by tidal action, and this matter would finally

condense into planets.

Such an event would be exceedingly

York and all over the country as a fes- j tival day for children, with special ! emphasis on health. President Cool- j idge, in a cordial letter, gave his ap- j

proval to the plan.

U. S. Bluejackets Now See Movios on Cruises Los Angeles, Cal.—When the battle

fleet sailed from San Pedro for maneuvers in the Caribbean, it took along a four months’ supply of motion

rare in tbe history of the universe, ow- picture films, Including the latest re-

ing to the great distances separating leases.

the stars from one another, and this i Before leaving San Pedro each ship consideration, coupled with the fact ! was given 12 complete shows for the that at least half of the stai’s appear trip by the fleet movie exchange offito be double or multiple suns, makes cer, who distributes his films from the

shall be i ^ ver >’ probable that our solar system flagship Procyon. At regular intervals

is almost a unique structure. Science during a cruise the exchange collected is tending to the conviction that our and redistributed the pictures.

earth may be the only inhabited body

in space.

Torn Away in South. Prof. W. H. Pickering has been ex-

The navy department established its own film exchange some time ago. There now are complete exchanges, four on the Pacific coast, one each in

Great Uphfter. Tor God’s sake, love somebody, something, some Ideal, anything bo sides setf. Love ta the upllfter.—Forbes Magazine.

tending his study of the mode in which Manila and Honolulu and one floating tha moon was separated from the exchange which accompanies the fleet earth, and he believes that when that on voyages. monstrous birth took place 7,000 mil- | The exchange officer supplies a veslion years ago the earth was not liquid sel with enough films for a siiow a day.

but solid, tind had a period of rotation

ANTI-KLAN PLANK (Continued from Page One)

a day, of three to four hours. The moon tore itself away In the south ; probably the northern part of New Zealand

was the last point of contact. Then three-quarters of the earth's

surface to a depth of 35 miles was convention; that in Indiana the klan carried away in a trailing mass of mobilized in the Republican primar- ™ |M - "» 3 , J" 8 ' 8 » v «>- ; ies and has a complete state ticket in From a. region by the Stcalts of G.ibral- j ^ ^ in the recent IIllnols

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