Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 16 January 1925 — Page 3
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1925.
THE POST-DEMOCRAT.
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On the Bench
or in f A« great big oat doors. BEECH-NUT Chewing Tobacco is steadying judgment, sustaining energy and arresting fatigue. Judged best everywhere. Over230Million Packages So5d in a Single Year
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ney’s Office Expense 98.65
No. 75. Insurance Children’s
Home . 1,500.00
No. 88. Preliminary Cost Ditches
No. 108 Lon Fuson Bridge. 8,477.58 No further appropriations to be considered or made by the Delaware
herein set out.
Total 173,303.77
Department of Finance
Salaries of city officials .. 35,007.10
Printing, stationary and of-
fice supplies Legal advertisements
LEGAL NOTICE
^ Report of Calvin Faris, City Conopo H°^ er of the City of Muncie, Indiana,
for the year ending December 1923, showing the receipts and
penditures of said city.
t^v .u- xt. r,.L, „ x, . i General Fund
Done this the 7th day of January, j
1925.
JAMES P. DRAGOO,
Auditor Delaware County, Indiana.
NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS
KASS KOUNTY EAN
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public schools of Cass Co.—K- KKesler.) Th e private and church schools are needed in order to supply that important branch of education, namely, religious and spiritual instruction, which public institutions are prohibited by law from imparting. A child, in order to be propertly educated, needs a threefold education, nannely, physical intellectual, and spiritual development of all his
faculties. A harmonious develop- _____ ment of these three phases of human The taxpayers of the City of Munlife is the highest order of education cie Delaware County Indiana, are that can be given tor the advance- hereby notified that on 5th day of ment of the individual and the wel- January, 1925, the Common Council
fare of society. and the Mayor of said city, determin- i Miscellaneous licenses ... Instead of the Kluxers using so ed that it was necessary to borrow j str eet and alley repair and much energy in showing their anti- and authorized the borrowing of use of road roller pathy toward the anti-Klan, and the Eight Thousand Dollars ($8,000.00) as' oilin S streets private and parochial schools, they a temporary loan in anticipation of j Miscellaneous receipts ..
had better call upon some of the poor the current Park Revenue of said washerwomen who were intimidated city actually levied in the year 1924, into j( ining the female Kooties and to be collected and in the course of pay 25 and 50 cents pj* week into collection for the year 1925, for the the dispensary of hate, until their park Fund of said city, for the purinitiation fees were paid in full. p OS e of providing funds for the oper-
These n or washerwomen, scraping ation of said parks for the first six, Garbage and saving their nickles and dimes, mont hs of 1925, as covered by specific 1 Repairs and maintenance of so that some yellow Klucker gold appropriations set out in the general Public buildings digger can liv e in eaj; and luxury, appropriation ordinance for 1925. Insurance of public buildThv. s just one sample of Ku Klux In order tQ procure said loan the ings and contents manhcoo of their so call?-! 100 per- noteg of gaid city ghall be i ^ ued and Printing, stationary and ofcent /-mericamsm, o.f idealism and sold in the SU m of Eight Thousand fice supplies 1 hurruu ir. nanism. Thes > pc.r ignor- Dol]ar g ; eight n ot e s in the denomina-1 Legal advertisements
per cent, payable at the Delaware Rent of city offices ., County National Bank of Muncie, In- Special appropriations
diana, an authorized depository of j said city; said notes to become due June 1st, 1925, to bear date of February 15th, 1925, to be signed by the Mayor, counter-signed by the City Controller, attested by the City Clerk, and sealed with the seal of said city, all of which shall be payable out of the Park Funds of said city when
due.
Unless objection is made by the tax payers of the city of Muncie, aforesaid, said city shall, through its proj per officers, pursuant to said ordinance proceed to negotiate said loan and sell said notes for said purpose, for not less than par value and accrued interest. The Common Council of said city has caused this notice to be signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk, this 5th day of January,
1925.
CITY OF MUNCIE, By John C. Quick, Mayor. Attest: Maynel W. Dalby, City Clerk. Advertised Jan. 16-23-1925.
2.402.46 9,171.68
1,796.86 1,100.06
Total 37,904.02 Department of law 246.16
Department of Public Safety
Fire department 85,128.02 Police department 54,547.79
Total 139,675.81
Department of Public Health Hospital and contagious dis-
eases 2,911.53
Printing, stationary and of-
fice supplies 727.20 Home Hospital contract . 767.00 Visiting Nurse Association 1,200.00
Receipts—1924
Corporation tax . $347,803.74
Interest on deposits ...... City Court, fines and fees. Surveyor’s fees Rent of city buildings .... Exhibition licenses Hawkers and peddler’s licenses Fees for permits
Total 5,605.73 Balance January 1, 1924.. 48,924.36 Receipts, 1924 365,922.99 Disbursements, 1924 356.735.49 Balance January 1, 1925 .. 58,111.86 SPECIAL FUNDS
Park Fund
Balance January 1, 1924,. 11,325.82 31 j Receipts 1924 . ., 51,723.17 ex . : Disbursements, 1924 59,694.39 | 1 Balance January 1, 1925 . . 3,354.60
Unwaived Improvement Fund
Balance January 1, 1924 .. 2,751.72 Receipts, 1924 65.575.21
1,145.83 Disbursements, 1924 >. 66,395.08 3,960.00 Ralance January 1, 1925 .. 1,931.85
H5 00 Waived Improvement 660.00 Balance January 1, 1924 . . 17,393.18 201.00 Receipts, 1924 116,589.52 Disbursements, 1924 106.362.27 Balance Jan. 1, 1925 27,620.43
City Planning Commission
91.50
1,727.45
290.50
8,798.54 685.70 443.73
ant people must be the soft brains
tion of One Thousand Dollars each. Light
Total 365,922.99
Disbursements—1924
Department of Public Works Streets, alleys, sewer and
levee fund 58,896.66
14,264.67
1,139.13
768.36 975.48
1,851.57 33,083.52
Balance January 1, 1924 . Receipts, 1924 Disbursements, 1924 .... Balance January 1, 1925 .
Sinking Fund
Balance January 1, 1924 .
Receipts, 1924 62,256.97 Disbursements, 1924 49,773.26 Balance January 1, 1925 .. 51,764.52 CALVIN FARIS, City Controller.
1 Jan. 16.
1,379.41 4,728.05 2,033.17 4,024.29 39,280.81
of the universe. Sure, Losausport is numbered t0 8 . A - , nc , nslTe , e ach Water 20.494.51
known the world over, as the haven of the easy marks. Some Spaniard has a few of them listed. No wonder they fall for the Klan's argu-1 mentation. Frank J. Berndt, Kligraff, is an ideal peddler. He used to peddle his mixture to the saloons, in the form of cigars and tobacco, and he even accepted Catholic money and solicited their business. Now, he ' peddles Klux propaganda against his former customers. Maybe he is helping ‘‘Oleo” Joe along with his churning. It is tiresome to make olccma.rgarine (and sell same for butter.) f,,, Sis Hokpins’ Whole Darn Family— a good place for peddlers to sell their wares: - i Hopkins, Wm. R., 137 W. Miami
Avenue.
Hopkins, Lester D., 137 W. Miami Avenue. I Hopkins, Ralph, 137 W- Miami
Avenue.
Hopkins, 137 W. Miami Ave. That was quite a nice haul the Whizzer made at the Hopkins house. We did not know that so many e*sy marks could live in one house. Huston, Oliver, 1606 George St., fireman Pennsylvania Railway Co. I Etnire, Frank, 1225 Smith street— works at Ku Ku Enyeart’s bottling i
works.
Landes, John, farmer, Lucerne. Same nationality as the Kaiser, but not near as smart. He is not famil- ! iar with Webster’s dictionary, as the ! pope is defined therein, as the head of the Catholic church, and Landes thinks the Pope is an aspirant for Presidency of the United States*— poor fish! ! 1 i- : . *< » *- y —q AUDITOR’S OFFICE NOTICE
of said notes to bear interest of Six Intersections t 30,255.73
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
Department of Public Works Office of the Board 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind. Notice of Improvement Resolution Notice to Property Owners. < , In the matter of Certain Proposed Public Improvements in the City of
Liberty Township
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To the Delaware County Council of Delaware County, Indiana.
Dear Sir:—
You are hereby notified, that the Delaware County Council will meet in the Council and Commissioners’ Room, at the Court House, in the City of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, on Tuesday the 20th, day of January, 1925, at the hour of 10:00 o’clock A. M.; by request of Delaware County
Board of Commissioners, to appropriations as follows: No. 90. Dependents Chester North No. 70. New Building Co. In-firmary-Poultry House .. No. 118 Moore Bridge .... . No. 82 Election Expense .. No. 124 Prosecuting Attoi^
consider
514.80 114.20
3,928.01
224.00
Billie Williams, boss of the republican machine, sees to it that Liberty township is not overlooked in the matter of the distribution of public funds among deserving G. O. P. henchmen. First and foremost, Selma performed the miracle of supplying a postmaster for the city of Muncie. Billie didn’t trust that important job to some inexperienced and unknown politician. He took it himself, notwithstanding the fact that he was a patron of the Selma postoffice and ineligible to hold the office. Billy has a brother-in-law, named Theis, who runs a drug store in Selma. The commissioners* last week gave Theis the contract for supplying drugs for all the county institutions. Frank E. Wright, one of Billy’s henchman, former trustee of Liberty township, who runs a store at Selma, received the grocery contract for the infirmary and other institutions and Hervet & Clark, also of Selma ran away with the dry goods contract. There are about eleven people in Selma when everybody is at home, but the village seems to fare pretty well when the plums are passed. Another Liberty township citizen who seems to be doing well is one 0. C. Norton who draws three separate salaries at once, two from the township and one from the county. Norton is assistant road superintendent at a salary of four dollars a day, has been named superintendent of construction of the Powers road by the township trustee and also drives a school truck for the township schools. In addition to these various dutie^ Norton has two teams of his own working the roads. He receives five dollars a day for each of the teams and pays the drivers the munificent salary of $1.50 a day. It-is needless to say that this very busy person finds plenty of time to look after Billie’s political dirty work when called upon to do so. Norton is the man to whom was assigned the duty in the last primary of inducing anti-Williams candidates for precinct committeemen to withdraw and leave the field open for machine candidates. Charles Guthrie is also a very busy person. Guthrie is an assistant road superintendent and although he is also a member of the township advisory board, is employed by the trustee to drive a school truck at a salary of $6.50 a day and is said to be interested in gravel contracts. Billie and his gang are grooming Guthrie to succeed Commissioner Truitt when the latter’s term expires. Just how these fellows get away with it is hard to explain, hut nevertheless it is done.
Muncie, State of Indiana. Notice is hereby given by the Boaru of Public Works of the City of Muit cie, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 6th day of January, 1925, to-wit: I. R. No. 1215-1925; For cement sidewalk and cement curb and gutter on both sides of West Main Street from Talley Avenue to Nichols Ave. I. R. No. 1216-1925, For paving the alley lying between Calvert Avenue and Martin Street from University Avenue to Sutton Street. I. R. No. 1217-1925, For paving the alley lying between University Ave-
nue and North Street from Linden Street to Greenwood Avenue. All work done in the making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles and specifications which are on file and may be seen in the office of said Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana.
in said City for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or which may have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and
The Board of Public Works has fix-adjacent to the proposed improveed the 27th day of January, 1925, as a j ment and to the said City will be date upon which remonstrances may ! equal to or exceed the estimated cost be filed or heard by persons interest- ' of the proposed improvements, as esed in or affected by said described ! timated by the City Civil Engineer, public improvements, and on said ' BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS date at 7:30 o’clock P. M. said Board | By Mary E. Anderson, Clerk, of Public Works will meet at its office Advertise on Jan. 9-16-1925.
The Great Titan B’gosh
Indianapolis, Jan. 16.—Joseph M, Huffington, of Evansville, is the “great titan” of the fifth “province” of the Ku Klux Klan of Indiana. Huffington has established himself in. regal splendour in a suite of rooms in the Lincoln Hotel and is giving out statements as to how the klan is to control the actions of the legislature. To show the esteem in which Huffington is held among some of his own klux buddies, we reproduce charges which were filed against him by an Evansville Ku Klucker. We do not vouch for the truth of the charges, but merely present them here to show how klansmen love each other: HOW ABOUT IT, JOE? Comes now and makes petition to prefer charges in Evansville Klan Number one (1) against Joseph M. Huffington under Section two (2) of Article twenty (20) of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and upon these charges prays for punishment meted out in the extreme penalty of banishment forever from the delectable bounds of the invisible Empire as provided in Section four (4) of Article twenty (20) of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. And further prays that the said Joseph M. Huffington be at once suspended and that all members be required to respect that suspension as provided in Section five (5) of Article twenty (20) of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. All of the foregoing is prayed for upon the following charges which the undersigned can sustain by available affidavits and by verbal testimony: First: that the said Joseph M. Huffington has accepted money from bootleggers upon a promise of giving them immunity from prosecution. Second: that the said Joseph M. Huffington conspired to Injure the business and personal reputation of Klansmen. Third, that the said Joseph M. Huffington has conspired and endeavored to employ men to kill Klansmen and has otherwise conspired to commit murder and take human life. Fourth: that he brutally abused a lady in the City of Evanswille who is a member of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan and Tthat he cursed her and would not permit her to enter the hall where the ladies were holding a meeting. . i Fifth: that on or about April 3 and on or about April 4, on two separate occasions the said Joseph M. Huffington threatened to take the lives of members of Evansville Klan Number one (1). Sixth: that the said Joseph M. Huffington has been repeatedly guilty of compromising the sanctity of womanhood. • Seventh: that the said Joseph M. Huffington had women of questionable reputation in his rooms at the Vendome Hotel on repeated occasions. Eighth: that the said Joseph M. Huffington has been repeatedly seen in the company of delinquent women and it is generally talked around Evansville that he has accepted money from houses of ill repute by promising them protection and immunity from prosecution. Ninth: that the said Joseph M. Huffington has been seen repeatedly in a drunken and disorderly condition. Tenth: that the said Joseph M. Huffington has been in the habit of and makes a practice of repeatedly using foul, vulgar and profane language in the presence of ladies and on the streets of the City of Evansville. Eleventh: that the said Joseph M. Huffington has on repeated and numerous occasions been seen to brandish a revolver and has threatened to take the lives of numerous individuals in Evansville and elsewhere. Twelfth: that the said Joseph M. Huffington has on numerous occasions endeavored to employ meen to murder employees of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan., All of the foregoing is repulsive and offensive to the decent •people of the City of Evansville and is causing the population of the entire southern section of Indiana to hold the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the utmost contempt. It is driving the best men from the Klan and is setting up a reign of terror in the City of Evansville which is disturbing the peace and quiet of the commuriity. It is setting- a bad example before the voung veneration and Is ^a disgrace to the American flag, a sacrilege to the Holy Bible and repulsive to all honest men. The undersigned therefore, nravs and petitions that in behalf of common decency, in behalf of a high ideal of citizenship, and in behalf of the sacredness of the princinles of the knights of the Ku Klux Klan Joseph M. Huffington be immediately suspended pending his trial before a properly constituted tribunal, and that these charges, together with suspension order be broadcasted to the Klansmen of the Nation.
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