Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 30 May 1924 — Page 4

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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924.

NOTICE OF SALE OF DRAINAGE t office of said Board of each of the

BONDS.

State of Indiana, Delaware County SS: Before the Board of Commissioners of the County of Delaware, in the State of Indiana. Ih the Matter of the Proceedings for Drainage By Charles A. Barley et al. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana; that pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana of the 1919 session, at pages 775 to 781, inclusive, of the Acts of 1919, that at the hour of ten o’clock A. M. on the 3rd day of May 1924, at the office of the Treasurer of Delaware county, Indiana, in the Court House in the City of Muncie, in Delaware County, in the State of Indiana, the Treasurer of Delaware County, Indiana, will proceed to sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at not less than face value, certain drainage bonds of the face or par value of $7,050.00, bearing interest from and after the 6th day of November, 1923, at the rate of six per

herein below

payable to said City for the sum MISTAKE IN STAMP

public improvements

described ,towit:

I. R. No. 1093-1923, —„ , between Jefferson Street and Mul- j City

equal to two and one-half percent (2%%) of City ivil Engineer’s esti

Paving alley ; mate which shall be forfeited to said

as liquidated damages ,if the

INCREASES VALUE

berry Street from Columbus Avenue bidder depositing the same shall fall to Myrtle Avenue. | duly and promptly to execuate the I. R. No. 1096-1923, Cement side- required contract and bond, in case wa.k and cement combined Curb and a contract shall be awarded him on gutter on both sides of Col .nr.bus , such accompanying proposal. Avenue from Walnut Street to Mul- i Said Board reserves the right to burry Street. ; reject any and all bids. I. R. No. 1148-1924, Paving ahoy j BY ORDER OF BOARD OF PUBl etween 11th Street and 12th Strec, j LIC WORKS, 1 om Liberty Street to Lake Erie Sc | Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Western Railway. * (May 23-39)

Each bidder is also to file with .the i Board an affidavit that there has been

no collusion in any way affecting said j

bid, according to the terms of Sec. Do, of the Act of March 6th, 1905.

(Acts 1905, p. 219).

All such proposals should be sealed, and must he deposited witn said Board before the hour of 7:30 o’clock in the evening of the 10th day of June, 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 percent) of City Civil

BOY NEARLY WEDS HIS TWIN SISTER

, Engineer’s estimate which shall be

cent per annum, payable semi-annually lorfeitRd tQ said Ciiy as liquidated

on the 15th day of May and the 15th day of November of each year for a period of five years. Said bonds have been issued in strict compliance with the laws of the State of Indiana, and pursuant to and with an order of the ,

Board of Commissioners of the Coun- I>1< P 0 f a l’.

ty of Delaware, in the State of Indiana, authorizing and ordering the issue and sale of said bonds for the pur-

pose of providing for the construction j PUBLIC WORKS,

and the costs and expenses incident thereto of the drainage reported in the above entitled proceedings and known as the Charles A. Barley et al drainage, which drainage was petitioned for by Charles A. Barley before the Board of Commissioners

damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying

Said Boaid reserves the right to

reject any and all bids.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF

Mary E. Anderson,

Clerk.

Publish on May 30-June 6, 1924. o NOTICE OF SALE.

Children Separated Years

Ago Fall in Love.

Boston.—Separated when they were children, although they continued living in the same neighborhood, James and Josephine Buckley went to school together and were pals until they were nineteen years old. Then they fell in love and planned to be married. A few days ago, however, they learned they are brother and sister, and twins

at that. They live in Boston.

All the while that Josephine and James were fast friends Josephine was searching for her twin brother, whom she had not seen in 15 years, lames and Josephine lived within three minutes’ walk of one another. The brother and sister were placed in a home for orphans by their father when they were atx ut four years old. The father disappeared, and an aunt, Mrs. Michael Buckley, adopted the children. Later James was given into the family of Mrs. John Brady. For years the gi? - l looked for her

Australian Issue of Wrong Color Now Brings $125. New York.—Memories of old-time shipping days, when some of the fastest sailing vessels ever constructed went out from Boston, were recalled at the Collectors’ club when a collection of rare stamps from Western Australia and New Zealand, owned by Dudley L. Piekman, were shown. Mr. Plckman is of a family of shipping merchants, bis father and grandfather having been in the business. The old firm was Silsby, Plckman & Allen, a century ago. Mr. Pickman’s stamps were brought to New York for exhibition to the club members by Everet A. Colson of Bos-

ton.

Western Australia began issuing stamps in 1S54. Adorned with a gracefully designed figure of a swan, these stamps always have been popular with philatelists, and the swan design, with minor modifications, was retained for many years. Mr. Piekman has all of the fine early issues. Among them are two copies, one used and the other uncaneeled, of the 2 penny in violet colors which was an error, as the proper color was yellow, the violet being reserved for the 6 penny stamp. They are of the 1865 issue. This error variety is now worth about $125 each. Charles J. Phillips, the former London dealer, related an interesting story about the “error” stamp. Many years ago a hatch of them was sent from a post office in Western Australia to the Stanley-Gibbons company in London with the statement that they would cost the firm 6 pence apiece, as that was the charge checked up

agaimst the post office.

“As I recall, the firm paid £2 for the stamps,” said Mr. Pfilllips, “and as it

j brother, and finally she learned the ; wag impossible to find out then wbeth- ; name of the institution where she and i er thoy were offered at 5 shillings j t>°y l ,a< l been placed. Officials of each, I remember that one prominent

( the institution, however, refused to

Notice is hereby given that the j tell the girl where her brother was

of the County of Delaware, in the! City of Muncie, through Its Board of: James A Dou|jenj , took „„ in . „ State of Indiana, and established by j Public Works, will, on the loth day | |; erest j u t } ie case aI)d fi na yy succeed- j the standard London price has been

the Board of Commissioners of the ; ol: - j une) 1924, and from day to dayed in finding the boy at the Brady I £24.” county of Delaware in the state ! thereafter until sold, offer for sale! home. The sister almost collapsed

collector took one and soon sent it hack sjs being too expensive for a new stamp of that value. Some time later he paid £2 or £3 for it, and recently

personal property to-

of Indiana, and which proceed-1 th e following mgs is now pending before the Board ; w j t:

6f Commissioners of The County of | The old City building, located on Delaware, in the State of Indiana, j i 0 t s g and 7, in block 25 in Brown's Said bonds will be- ten in number, i donation to the City of Muncie, Indi-

dated November 6th, 1923, each being; ana; a ] s0

for the sum of $705.00. The first of ; The Erick building located on said said bonds will be due and payable; lots situated approximately 25 feet on the 14th day of June, 1924 and two j u 0rth of sa id old City building, bonds each' year thereafter until all. Said buildings are to he severed of said bonds shall have been paid. • i r om the real estate on which the * ~x!_tC.-fCJ-Cu 4.1.. I 5dm,. T? a T :d ri' nW i“r-rrr i-VSb t.irj

and all

when she was told that her lover was the twin brother she had been seek-

ing In vain for so many years

First Woman Authorized to Freac-i *m England

bids.

JAMES P. DRAGOO, Auditor Delaware Co., Ind. May 30—June 6. 0 CITY ADER NSEMENTS

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, drawing and specification therefor on file in the

STAR THEATRE Muncie’s Home of Rea! Entertainment Playing only and always the Best Musical Comedy, Vaudeville and Big Feature Moving Pictures. Entertainment for the entire family. Selected from the world’s best. Star “Pep” Orchestra Popular Prices. SCJTVIE PLACE TO GO. ANOTHER PLACE TO GO COLUMBIA THEATRE The House of Class and Quality Delaware County’s Palatial Home of— PARAMOUNT PICTURES In the Biggest Productions 20-35c Plus Tax. Continuous Magnificent Pipe Organ ANOTHER PLACE TO GO LYRIC THEATRE Big Pictures—Bargain Prices The world's biggest produc tions and all the favorite stars can be seen here at lower prices than any theatre in America. Make it YOtJR theatre. Children 10c; Adults 15c plus tax

personal property, no interest in th | real estate to be sold. It is also un-1. j cerscood that rights of W. C. Cald j j well under lease with the City of j i Muncie, Indiana, in building joining , | the above two buildings are to be!

• observed.

Said sale to be at private sale, j i for cash, and to the highest bidder. J { The bids will be received' on each | I building separately or on both build-d j ffigs combined. The purchaser shall ‘ remove building or buildings purchased within twenty days from date of purchase or if same has not been vacated by tenants within twenty days from the time of such vacation. Said buildings to be re- < moved without injury to said real | estate and premises and shql! not be removed until payment for same has

been made.

The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. For further particulars see Board of Public Works. BERT F. BRADBURY, J. R. MARSH, CHARLES F. BOWDEN, Board of Public Works. May 23 and 30. o Department of Public WorksOffice of the Board. 212 Wysor Block.

Muncie, Ind-

Notice l^o ontractors and the Public

Coughs Up Bullet He Got in Battle of Vicksburg Lanfvt, Ala.—VV. V. Meadows believes in keeping his trophies for a long time. In fact, he keeps them so long that he can’t always get rid of them when he wants to. Meadows is now seventy-eight years old and is a veteran of the Civil war. He was shot during the battle of Vicksburg, the bullet hitting him in the eye. i Doctors probeiP. for it. but they were never able to find it nor did they feel that it was safe to perform an operation. Meadows didn’t worry much. lie knew that it was in his head somewhere and all that, but that was all 1 e could do about It. Recently he was suddenly seized with a violent coughing spasm which he couldn’t seem to overcome by the ordinary means. Finally with a great effort he coughed up the bullet, the one that he was presented with during the days of the Civil war. This bullet was in the form'of a slug and weighed about an ounce.

Miss Edith Picton-Turlpu /ill is the

first woman in England to bo officially authorized by the Episcopal church to 1 preach. She has come to this country ; to go on ; a lecture tour. She is a member of the Order of the Biitish Empire, a director of the International Y. W. C. A. and is one of the leading women politicians in England. She feels that if women were in the ministry the world would be in a better moral state

privately as well as politically.

Race Foundling Child Is Puzzle to Medical Experts Kinston, N. C.—A “Jim Crow” problem is puzzling juvenile court and probation officials and medical specialists here. A foundling, six months of age, was left at the home of a negro family. The Infant appeared to be white. Tho

WASHINGTON PALS OF SENATOR JIM ME PTE LEARY

Washington. May 30.-—Republicans here read with interest Watsos’s keynote speech at the Indiana Republican convention. They had wondered how “Senator Jim” was going to advise his brethren to follow Coolidge when he himself had refused to follow and had gone off with the enemies of the President. Republicans were interested* too. in anything Watson might have to say about the Ku Klux Klan. They had heard of a possible coalition between the Watson wing of the party and the Hoosier klan. They feared that Watson’s affiliation with the Cyclops, kleagles and imperial dragons of the invisible empire might embarrass the party nationally. First to give expression to distrust as a result of Watson’s indorsement of Ed Jackson were the leading negroes of the United States who promptly demanded of President Coolidge a definite statement of his attitude toward the klan. On his reply will largely depend Mr. Coolidge’s standing with the negro race- The National Associaton for the Advancement of Colored People, which has headquarters in Boston, also took a hand by protesting Watson’s membership on the senate sub-committee, which is investigating the right of Senator Mayfield, of Texas, to hold his seat. The associaton in formal protest to the committee on privileges and elections had this to say: “The National^ Association for the Advancement of Colored People with 100,000 members, white and colored, throughout the United-States, believes Senator Watson in view of his alliance with the Ku Klux Klan forces in Indiana, and the public charge that this will dispose him favorably toward Mayfield, should hersign from the senate committee on privileges and elections now investigating alleged irregularities in connection with the election of the klan’s candidate, Mayfield, to the United States senate from Texas. “The association maintains that the continuance of Senator Watson on this committee would gravely prejudice the integrity of the committee’s findings.” GETTKAWAY WITH (Continued From Page One)

Hall shooting. We will say this much for them, however, and that is that they have probably been bunked by Prosecutor Ogle, whose sense of official honor and integrity rests on such a flimsy foundation that he would probably protect a murderer, if necessary to serve his purpose. The people of Muncie have not forgotten the cold blooded murder of Parrish on the Cornbread road, and (he way it was covered up and never investigated, despite the requests of

the man’s relatives. Some time the duped people of Muncie, and especially the preachers who prayed for Ogle’s success at the polls, will find out what sort of a hairpin he is. If raw murder is to be condoned and if a chief of police is retained who stands for it, and a sheriff tolerated who treats one of the gunman as an honored guest, and if an idiotic bunch of preachers and sob sisters agree that it is all right, then Muncie is the jumping off place of creation.

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TAKING PENNIES FROM THE KIDS.

Havinq: failed to enlist any great number of adults in his new “independent” klah, Sam Bemenderfer is now taking candy from the baby. Failing to catch suckers of mature years Sam is said to be doing a brisk business with the children of Muncie. Emulating the example of the old klan he has started an infant class and the noble “klan of the north” has become a kindergarten. Sam is not hard on the kids like the old bunch. With the original hundred percenters, the cradle roll members are required to save their pennies and put up three dollars as a membership fee. Nothing of that kind is required in Sam’s kindergarten. It doesn’t cost the kids a dime to join, but merely as a matter of form they are assessed four dollars a year as dues, the amount to be paid to Sam in installments at stated intervals. There are many ways of getting money dishonestly, but about the lowest down, measliest, petty larceny project imaginable is that of taking pennies away from children. If a full grown boob wants to put up ten dollars of his hard earned dough for the privilege of making a damn fool out of himself it’s his funeral, but when it comes to taking money from children and poisoning their minds it is high time to start the mighty machinery of the juvenile court to work. When a man, set of men or an organization sinks so low that children become victims, this kind of business ceases to be a joke. Some day there is going to be a beautiful showdown.

fire and some say as many as twenty shots were fired. Turned One Loose. The men who did this were known. Two of them, Grave? and White were captured. The grand jury deliberated and turned White loose on bond, having indicted him on a trivial charge. The indictment against Graves, the protected gambler and pel of the sheriff, prosecutor and police, charges him with intent to kill. It seems that the boy who was killed was lost sight of. A man was | shot through the leg and the powers

specialists decided that it was an oc« j that be, completely bewildered as to

toroon, or possibly a quadroon. The negro family desires to take no

chances.

The juvenile court does not want to send a “colored” child to a whit* orphanage, nor a white child to a colored , institution. “Little Buttercup”

toys with his toes.

Seek Funds to Establish

Clubhouses for Crooks | Safe Stolen for Fourth

New York-—The success of the Marshall Stllman movement in turning men

which particular bullet fired from which particular pistol killed the boy, had no difficulty in deciding Oje bullet from Bob’s gun penetrated the

leg of the wounded man.

The gravely deliberating grand jury ! presided over by Prosecutor Van j Ogle, whose sickness did not prevent | him from getting on the job quickly,

Time; Thieves Get $650 i simply could not decide which bullet _ A , r „, . , I killed the boy, therefore nobody was

Detroit, Mich.—Thieves recently en- 1

from lives of crime to honest pursuits tered the department store of B. L. i indicted for the murder, or, at least,

Notice\is hereby given, to the pub- j was t°id recently at a luncheon at the | gj ms and carried away the safe eon- | minor charges were preferred against lie and to all contractors, that the i Harva ^ d cl nb. and financial aid was ; taining ?650 The burglars forced the j the men who were captured. It was Board of Public Works of the City of! asked to ie p establish clubhouses for j front door. The safe was found in a only the bullet that wounded and did

former crooks. , vacant i ot with the door pried open ; not kill that was positively traced to !

Alpheus Geer, originator of the j an d the money gone. This was the q ves movement, who is known as “Dad” to j f ourt h time in a ^year that the safe

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 de-

scribed, to-wit:

I. R. No. 1151-1924, Cement curb and gutter on both sides , of West Main street from Calvert Avenue to

Talley Avenue.

I. R. No. 1152-1924, Cement sidewalk on both sides of West Main street, from Calvert Avenue to Tal-

ley Avenue.

Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that thel > has been ipo 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 be deposited: with said Board before the hour of 7:30 o’clock in the evening of t ehSrd day of June. 1924, and each such proposal must be accompanied b ya certified check

, — ' IUUI LI1 Lillit: ill cl vliicl l nit: .-'ii 1 cj . the prison graduates he has taught to! has been stolen and rifled, the Ecorsa ihe daily news P a P ers have

go straight, declared that the move- i p 0 ii ce reported. ment could go into the had lands of .

Brooklyn, that district between the two bridges which others have given 1 up as hopeless, and ip 30 days make ,• friends of the worst characters there aqd lead them to lives of honesty. Jjefferson Seligman, a banker, assured Mr. Greer and the former crooks | of his great interest and willingness to co-operate. Mr. Seligman became a member of the committee of f,000 to lessen crime, by paying the dues of $300. and several other members wene

announced at the luncheon.

had 1

considerable to say about other murders 4 n other towns but the cold i blooded slaughter of this young col- ^ ored boy seems to have been over-

looked.

Case Of Gus Voida*.

About three years ago a bunch of “highjackers” held up Gus Voida, a Roumanian, on a lonely country road near Muncie. There were five men J in the crowd. Several of them fired • shots, one of which struck the Rou-l

Radio Receiving Sets on Town’s Tax Lists

Costs Man in Berlin $6 to Check Cane for Year Berlin.—Walking sticks are prohibited in Berlin movie theaters. They must be checked at the door, and the fee amounts to 10 or 15 cents. An American film fan who bought a cane for 50 cents last fall before the mark became stabilized and things were fairly reasonable for persons with foreign currency lias estimated that his stick for the year in checking charges alone has cost him $6.

South Bend, Wash.—Science and invention bring their com plications as well as their blessings to every branch of commerce, and the latest In this line in Pacific county concerns the radio and the county assessor’s

office.

“Just one thing was forgotten in the printed assessor’s blanks for this year,” said C. E. Kilbourne, field deputy in charge of personal and merchants’ stock assessments. “That one is the

radio.”

Kilbourne has ferreted out a large number of radio sets in South Bend amf Raymond and has written v in »the description and assessments, so that even the ether will be made to pay its tribute to the county coffers in Tfi’Jo. ' £

manian in the back and he was killed, j After several days’ detective work I

\

the men involved in the shooting were arrested and placed in jail. The j grand jury indicted all of. them for ( murder in the first degree, although 1 but one^ bullet struck the victim and I a number of shots were fired by dif- | ferent members of the party. 1 The editor of the Post-Democrat l had one siege of it for contempt of j court for criticizing the act of a grand | jury. We really do not know what to j think of the grand jury which was supposed to probe into the Franklin

JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY. XStirofTTfletd Democrat^- - The increasing observance of Jefferson Day, as noted in the month of April just passed, is an evidence at \east that the leaven of genuine democracy is still working, and renews the hope that it may eventually leaven the whole body politic. When the founder of the Democratic party enunciated the doctrine “equal right for all and special privilege for none,”.he uttered the wisest, soundest fundamental political phlosophy that ever fell from the lips of man. There is no utterance comparable to it except the Golden Rule. It is worth more than all the philosophy ever uttered by all the leaders of opposing system of government put together. “Equal rights for all and special privilege for none” is the basic idea of a true democracy. It is the principle which distinguishes a Republic from a monarchy; it is the principle which distinguishes popular government from oligarchies and autocracies; it is the line of demarcation between justice and injustice; between unselfishness and selfishness, between honesty and dishonesty, between clean government and corrupt government it is as immortal as truth, and governments founded upon it and which adhere to it must endure for all times. When equal rights are disregarded or denied and special privilege is enthroned, decadence begins and festering corruption appears. Special privilege is the source, tne center and the core of corruption in government; it is responsible for most of the injustices perpetrated by governments and for most of the immorality and dishonesty of public officials. It appears to cupidity, to greed and all of the worst impulses and traits of human nature. Special privilege is the chief policy of the Republican party as at present organized and controlled. Since the moral issue upon which that party was founded has been settled, special privilege has been the one thing upon which it has had to rely to sustain itself as an opponent of the Democratic party committed to the doctrine of “equal right for all and special privilege for none.” The commonest form of special privilege in government is a tariff policy which enables a small class of citizens to tax all other citizens for the special benefit of those few. From a temporary expedient it has become a fixed policy of that party, and by. reason therefore the most mercenary, ruthless, dishonest and corrupt element of that party has come into control. Certain forms of business, originally stimulated temporarily by this policy, have come to rely upon it for large and unjust profits, and they in turn have become corrupted through their dealings with the corrupt leadership of that party, until now. as a result of this unjust and dishonest policy of special privilege we have a permanent alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics. The huge profits derived by the tariff protected interests are a constant incentive to every other seeker of special privilege to obtain like benefits in the same way, and hence we find snecial privilege manifesting itself in grants of land—oil land, timber, coal, etc., and other natural resources of the country; in ship subsidies and all the multifarious forms of special favors. Through cajolery, flattery, sophistry and every other devious method, special privilege, seeks irs special favors and w'hen these fail there is no limit to which it will not go to gain its pont. Special privilege is willing to pay and pay liberally in the form of campaign contributions, and when necessary, in the form of individual bribes. It is the main source of deceptive and lying propaganda, and is unscrupulous and brutal in its method of defeating or destroying those who oppose it. Political morals and to a large ; extent business morals have already been corrupted by it. It-is surely and steadily sapping public morals. It is a menace to the youth of the land. There has never been a time in our history when it was more necessary for the nation to be guided by the immortal precepts of Thomas Jefferson, for only by adhering to them can special privilege and attendant corruption in> government be overthrown.