Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 22 October 1925 — Page 4

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT

THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1925.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT. A democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats 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. PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR.

Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher. Muncie, Indiana, Thursday, October 22,1925.

DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET. FOR MAYOR—R. Milton Retherford. FOR CITY CLERK—Fred Kennedy. FOR CITY JUDGE—Ward Marshall. COUNCILMEN-AT-LARGE — Newton Campbell, Harry Brammer, Frank Lang and Chester Gilbert. FIRST WARD COUNCILMAN—Samuel Snell. SECOND WARD COUNCILMAN—William Rench. THIRD WARD COUNCILMAN—E. B. Winder. FOURTH WARD COUNCILMAN—Samuel Hite. FIFTH WARD COUNCILMAN—Frank Russell. SIXTH WARD COUNCILMAN—Leo Fell. SEVENTH WARD COUNCILMAN—James Leitch. EIGHTH WARD COUNCILMAN—Joe Dangler. NINTH WARD COUNCILMAN—Clifford B. Smith.

trict, made on the recommendation of Postmaster Billy Williams, makes Muncie the horrible example of Indiana. Possessed of only one qualification, a willingness to don any sort of political dirty work ordered by his master, Smith was given the job after a trained man had been removed. He is now devoting all of his time working for the election of John Hampton, the candidate picked out by Boss Williams. Charged with the duty of forcing others to pay their government taxes, Collector Smith himself does not pay his own city and county taxes. The record in the county treasusrer’s office disclose that he has evaded the payment of his personal taxes for nineteen years. Smith is a charter member of the young men’s Hampton-for-mayor club, and is one of the ‘‘best minds” that are to be employed to keep Hampton in the straight and narrow path if the voters here happen to lose their minds a week from Tuesday and elect him mayor.

Frank Ball had a good chance until it was killed by the petition signed by Billy Williams, Harry Hoffman, Herb Smith and Niny Sample. O Court Asher is the best political prophet in Muncie. He told the editor of the Post-Democrat three months ago that Arthur R. Robinson would be appointed United States Senator.

Jim Watson wanted Beveridge, not because he likes him, but because his appointment would have smoothed things foi Watson. Beveridge will now enter the primary and beat Jim hands down, in the spring primary. Robinson, the Jackson appointee, is a progressive. Stand pat rule in Indiana is fading

away.

AN INDECENT GANG Governor Jackson at least was ethical about it. He did not even discuss, or allow any of his political associates to discuss, the apointment of Senator Ralston’s successor until the funeral was over and the state press had paid proper tributes to the memory of the deceased democratic statesman. How different was the attitude of Congressman Vestal and the Muncie republican machine when the late Frank Haimbaugh, democratic postmaster, died of a sudden heart attack. Before the chill hand of death had frozen the fires of life in the body of the dead postmaster Billy Williams was yanked from his county infirmary job and seated in the swivel chair at the postoffice which had ben occupied but the day before by Mr. Haimbaugh. While friends and relatives were mourning at the bier of one of Muncie’s most beloved citizens, and while the many civic organizations to which he belonged were paying heartfelt tribute to his worth as a man and as a public spirited citizen, the scheming, grinning boss had usurped his official position and was sending out orders from the postoffice to his henchmen to see that the “right” man was given the infirmary job. The selection of a successor to the late Lance Coons, judge of the city court, was also attended by the same indecent haste upon the part of the Williams machine. Before the body had grown cold representatives of the machine were beseeching Governor Branch to appoint Harry Redkey in his place. The governor rebuked the importunities of the ghouls, but eventually acceded to their insistent demands. The governor had but one day to remain in office and made the appointment knowing full well that Governor Jackson, who was about to succed him, would never consent to the naming of Redkey, a tool of the Williams machine. And this is the sort of a gang that is seeking to make an undertaker mayor of Muncie. The ordinary amenities of life mean little to this mercenary gang.^Opportunities of the very worst type, they seek only personal advancement and enrichment. Decency and a proper regard for the living or the memory of the dead, is entirely foreign to their make-up. If Billy Wiliams had been required to seek the votes of the people of Muncie to get his job as postmaster, he would have been beaten 10 to 1. Redkey, the occupant of a dead man‘s shoes, had to fill them by appointment, not by election. He has made numerous efforts to win office at the polls and has been invariably rebuked. He will be defeated this time by a decided vote. The conduct of his office has been a stench in the nostrils of the people. He is merely a tool of the Billy Williams machine. The people have no confidence in the man who freed Bob Graves and his gang by order of the machine. They remember the way he turned Mary Carmichael loose and how he soaks laboring men who do not vote right. The voters of Muncie surely want to do the decent thing. They will certainly go to the polls a week from Tuesday and see to it that Hampton, Redkey, Dalby and the rest of the underlings who take orders from Billy Williams are defeated. O THE HORRIBLE EXAMPLE Robert Catherwood, of the National Civil Service Reform League, in a letter to Commissioner of Internal Revenue David B. Blair, declares that the system of apointments by Collector Ber Thurman makes Indiana the “Horrible Example” of the United States. Catherwood says that in the matter of the appointment of deputy collectors, Thurman selected only members of his own family and political henchman of the Indiana republican organization, which is dominated and controlled by Senator Jim Watson, and that the men chosen were wholly without experience and fitness for the positions. If Indiana is the horrible example of the nation, then we submit that the appointment of collector for the Muncie dis>

NOT A PIE COUNTER CROWD. The courtroom was crowded “to the guards” Tuesday night to hear Milt Retherford and the other speakers. It wa; great outpouring of interested citizens, democrats and republi cans. There was not an office holder in the crowd. The Hamp ton crowds, if you can call themcrowds, are made up almos wholly of payroll patriots, their wives and relations. 0 That good old axiom, “things equal to the same things an equal to cash other” applies with great force in the presen city campaign. RedHght prostitutes, short card gamblers am bootleggers are all for Hampton. The telephone company fav ors him and so does Judge Dearth, Bob Henshaw and Rev. Say ers. What is this community of interest which bands togethei a thieving public service corporation, a circuit judge and a pro tected race horse pool gambler?

COME AND GET IT A report comes down from Liberty township that Sherm Shroyer, poor farm superintendent, is running a free gasoline station at the county infirmary. Posmaster Billy Williams,' who lives at Selmy and licks stamps in Muncie, has been seen on numer- { ous occasions “filling up” from the gasoline tank at the poor farm while , on his way to and from Muncie. Get- j ting it for nothing beats paying fif- | teen cents a gallon for it. It takes | free gasoline to keep the postoffice ; going, that is, it is free for Billy. The tapayers settle for it.

reject any and all bids. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD ( PUBLIC WORKS, Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Adv. Oct. 22-29, 1925.

ROAD PETITION.

Notice of the filing of a petition foi the improvement of a highway ii Monroe Township, Delaware Coum ty, Indiana.

PLEASE EXPLAIN A correspondent writes the PostDemocrat that residents of Kilgore avenue feel safe at night. Sheriff Hoffman takes a great interest in | watching for law violators on that street and his car is frequently parked there at night, the writer says. We do not know exactly what he means, but will employ the local horse thief detective association and Deputy Sheriff Parson Sayers to ivnestigate and report.

CITY ADVERTISEMENT. 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 office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described, to-wit: I. R. No. 111-1925, For cement sidewalk on both sides of Seventh street from Batavia avenue to Gilman avenue. Each bidder is also to file with the board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219). All such proposals should be sealed and must be deposited with said board before the hour of 7:30 o’clock in the evening of the 3rd day of November, 1925, 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 %) of City Civil Engineer’s estimate which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated 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 proposal. Such Board reserves the right to

Notice is hereby given that Amo D. Hoober and others have duly filei their petition in the auditor’s office o Delaware County, Indiana, which pe tition is now pending, praying for th improvement of a public highway i: Monroe Township, Delaware Countj Indiana, to-wit: Beginning at Frank E. Hiatt Roai No. 180, an improved free gravel roai located on the west line of the south east quarter of Section Twenty-on (21), Township Nineteen (19) Nortl Range Ten (10) East, in Delawar County, Indiana, at a point when road is intersected by a public high way known as North street, producei westward, which said North street i shown on the plat of Turner H. John son’s Addition to Oakville, Indians recorded in Plat Book 2, Page 38, o the records in the office of Recorde of Delaware County, Indiana, and run ning thence east along said extensioi of said North street and also alonj said North street to Johnson street in said addition; thence south wit] said Johnson street to Drinkwate street in Dr. E. V. Boram’s First Ad dition to Oakville, Indiana, as show in Plat Book 5, Folio 6, of the Record in the office of the Recorder of Dela ware County, Indiana; thence west oi said Drinkwater street to Hoobe street in said addition; thence nort in said Hoober street and the exten sion thereof to Charles Kern Road Nc 171, an improved free tarvia highwa; running east and west in the south east quarter of said Section Twenty one (21) aforesaid in Delaware Coun y, Indiana, and there terminating That the Auditor of said Delawar County, State of Indiana, fixes Satur day, November 7th, 1925, at the hou of 1:30 p. m., the 6th day of the reg ular November Term, 1925, of th board of commissioners of said count at the office of said board of commis sioners in the court house in the Cit of Muncie, in said Delaware Countj Indiana, as the time and place whe and where said petition will be pre sented to and heard by said board o commissioners of the County of Dela ward, in the State of Indiana, and a the time at which proof of postin, and publication of notice of the penc ency of said petition will be made an heard by said board of commissioner! Dated October 19, 1925. JAMES P. DRAGOO, Auditor of Delaware County, Indian! OMAR G. WEIR, Attorney for Petitioners. Adv. Oct. 22-29, 1925.

CITT ADVERTISEMENT. Department of Public Works. Office of the Board 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind. Notice of Declaratory Resolution.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS: Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described vacating for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered declaratory resolutions, adopted by the said board on the 20th day of October, 1925, to-wit: Declaratory Resolution No. 1121925, For the condemnation of real estate at the southwest corner of Madison street and Memorial Drive, described as Lot Number One (1) in Block Number Fifty-three (53) in the Muncie Natural Gas Land Improvement Company’s Subdivision, of the Galliher & Ohmer Tracts, an addition to the City of Muncie, Delaware County, Ind. All work done in the making of said described vacation shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the declamatory 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. The Board of Public Works has fixed the 10th day of November, 1925, as a date on which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interest in , or affected by said described vacation and on said date at 7:30 o’clock, p. m., said Board of Public Works will meet at its office 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 vacations, and will decide whether the benefits that will ac--rue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed vacations and to the said City will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed vacations, as estimated by the City Civil Engineer. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, By Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Adv. Oct. 22-29, 1925.

% CITY ADVERTISEMENT 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 for Benefits and Damages, 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 i following improvements, to-wit:— Declaratory Resolution No. 1041925, For widening, opening and extending the Muncie and Granville Turnpike, commonly known as Granville avenue, from Highland avenue to 517 feet north of the point of intersection of the middle line of the Muncie and Granville Turnpike with the middle line of the State Road. And notice is hereby given that on the 10th day of November, 1925, the Board will, at its office receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll, and will determine the question as to whether such lots and tracts of land have been or will be benefitted by said improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll or in any sum, at which time and place all owners of such real estate may attend in person or by representative, and be heard at 7:30 o’clock p. m. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,

Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Adv. Oct. 22, 29, 1925.

CALL 5216 FOR “SUDDEN SERVICE”* MOTOR DELIVERY SERVICE. Parcels a Specialty. We Hurry Office Sinclair Filling Station, Washington and Jefferson Sts. E. R. Jordan, L. A. Davis 8851-J 2989-J.

CITY ADVERTISEMENT 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 descriptions 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. 1272-1925, For a local sewer in Eleventh street, from Batavia avenue to Port avenue. I. R. No. 1289-1925, For paving alley between Mound street and Gharkey street, from first alley north of Powers street to first alley south of Howard street; also first alley south of Howard street from Mound street to Gharkey street and first alley north of Powers street from Mound street to Gharkey street. I. R. No. 1299-1925, For. paving the alley between Main street and Jackson street from Beacon street to Grant street. I. R. No. 100-1925, For paving alley between Mulberry street and Jefferson street from alley lying between 10th and 11th streets, to Twelfth street. I. R. No. 102-1925, For local sewer in Brotherton street from Willard street to Sixth street. And notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of October, 1925, the Board will, at its office receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll, and will determine the question as to whether such lots and tracts of land have been or will be benefitted by said improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll or in any sum, at which time and place all owners of such real estate may attend in person or by representative, and be heard, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Adv. Oct. 9-16, 1925.

CITY ADVERTISEMENT.

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 office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described, to-wit: I. R. No. 106-1925, For cement sidewalk on both sides of South Jefferson street from 20th street to 22nd

street.

I. R. No. 107-1925, For cement sidewalk on north side of West Jackson street, from Hutchinson avenue to Tillotson avenue. I. R. No. 108-1925, For paving alley lying between Mulberry street and Jefferson street from Ninth street to the alley south of Tenth street, to join up to cement pavement recently constructed. I. R. No. 109-1925, For local sewer in Cole avenue from Adams street to first alley north of said Adams street. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219,) All such proposals should be sealed, and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of 7:30 o’clock in the evening of the 27th day of October, 1925,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 shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated 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 woposal. Said Board reserves the right to •eject any and all bids. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF •PUBLIC WORKS. Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Adv. Oct. 16-23, 1925. a CITY ADVERTISEMENT. 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. 1248-1925, For cement curb and special gutter on west side of Granville Avenue from north line of McCulloch Boulevard to north line of property of Harry C. Almy.

I. R. No. 1279-1925, For cement sidewalk on both sides cf Celia Avenue from Jackson Street to Godman Avenue. I. R. No. 1280-1925, For cement curb and gutter on both sides of Celia Avenue from Jackson Street to Godman Avenue. I. R. No. 1296-1925, For cement sidewalk on East side of Broadway, Whitely, from Hazel street or (First Street) to Centennial Avenue. I. R. No. 1297-1925, For cement sidewalk on west side of Franklin street from Washington street to Gilbert street. And notice is hereby given that on the 3rd day of November, 1925, the Board will, at its office receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll, and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of land have been or will be benefiited by said improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll or in any sum,, at which time and place all owners of such real estate may attend in person or by representative, and be heard, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, Mary E. Anderosn, Clerk. Adv. Oct. 16-23, 1925.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Inviting proposals for the construction of a Heating and Ventilating system for the Public school Building in the town of Redkey, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received by the Board of School Trustees of the School Town of Redkey, Indiana, at their office in the Public School building in said town, until 7 o’clock, p. m. on Thursday, October 29, 1925, at which time said bids will be publicly opened and duly considered for the erection and construction of a Heating and Ventilating System for the Public School Building in said town the maps, plans, profiles and specifiof Redkey, Indiana, all according to cations therefor, now on file in the office of the secretary of said Board of School Trustees of said town. Said work shall be installed according to the said plans aforesaid, and to the full satisfaction of the said Board of School Trustees and the Architects in charge. Proposals must be made for the completion of said work as a whole, and must be accompanied, by the usand statutory affidavit of non-collu-sion and by a certified check drawn on some responsible bank or trust company, and made payable to the order of the said Board of School Trustees, in a sum of not less than two and a half per cent of the architects estimate of the cost of the work bid uponon, to secure the execution of a contract for which such bid is made, and that he will give a good and sufficient bond to be approved by said Board insuring the faithful performance of said contract. The successful bidder must furnish proper certificate showing that he has complied with all of the laws of the state of Indiana in relation to the WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids. By Order of the Board of School Trustees, town of Redkey, Indiana. EARL W. JERLES, DAVID L. RALSTON, GEORGE D. BROWN, Board of School Trustees, Town of Redkey, Indiana. Oct. 8, 15, 22, 1925.

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