Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 16 March 1934 — Page 4
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FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934,
A Ghastly Tale of BLOOD-SHED In the Woodshed
glass—as tough ae
'Twas a dark and stormy night in summer. An equinoctial gale was blowing out of the south and there was a portentous hush. The wind shrieked and howled like a thing in distress. The full moon roee majestically in the west and shone fitfully through the rifts in the clouds, casting dark ehadows which made one creep with horror of something that might be lurking there. It was just the night for a deed of blood such as was being planned by those two out there—a night “fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils,’f as the poet Riley so eloquently wrote. “You must kill him!” hissed a woman’s husky voice. “I’ll hold the lantern while yon do it. Creep up op him from behind, and let him have it. You mustn’t let him get away!” The axe was raised—poised in midair just ready to descend, when the village clock, by striking 14, announced that it lacked only three hours of mfdnight. "I just can’t do it; I’ve lost my
a shoe;
brittle as
gristle;
neat as a pin—as clean as a wTiistle; \ good as a feast—as bad as a
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nerve,” said the man. “You take the axe; you’ve got to do it while
I hold him.”
The woman took the axe and held it aloft, and a wucked light shone inj her eye as she took a good look a* i her helpless victim. The man held j him in a tight grasp and looked away as the axe fell, for the sight of blood had always made him sick. The woman, too, was unnerved at the prospect and she shut her eyes and struck blindly. Instead of hitting her victim on the neck she struck her husband’s band. The blood that smeared the edge of the axe was her husband’s—not the old rooster’s. But luckily the axe w r asn’t sharp and so thqt wound
wasn’t serious.
“It serves yon right for wanting to kill our old roaster, when he’s been with us so many years,” she said. “Yes, weil let him live,” said
the husband.
And that explains v r hy the minister next day had to put up with a neck piece of corned beef for dinner instead of his favorite “second joint.”—Pathfinder.
DALEVILLE, INDIANA.
The Woman’s Club held an all-
As light as day—as black as pitch; «ay >aeeting at the home of Mrs. As brisk as a bee-as dull as an °-^ Tucker, Tuesday. At noon a agg .. potluck dinner was served to the As full as a tick—as bold as brass, mem hem and a few guests. o | Mrs. Raymond Shirey and her guest. Miss Irma Dare, of Upland,
spent Monday in Muncie.
Mrs. William Wright spent Tues
day in Anderson.
Mrs. Elizabeth Riohman has returned to her home here after visiting several weeks with her grandson, Jordan Richman, at New-
castle.
The recommendation of thej Woman’s Home and Foreign President that the principal as well| Missionary Society of the Chrisas interest be guaranteed by the,Ha,n Church, met at the home of
Mrs. Clarence Shoemaker, Thurs-
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Why We Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
tated to accept unguaranteed securities in exchange for mortgages, will have less to fear, and conversions will occur on a far larger scale than heretofore, and wiht less opposition from persons having funds invested in mortgages. Second, it cannot be denied that the offering of securities in which the interest alone was guaranteed, tended to cast a stigma upon the whole mass of government paper. With the principal of the Home Owners’ Loan bonds guaranteed, the phrase “as good as a government bond” will take on much of its old-time significance, and confidence in government bonds of all sorts will be strengthened.
St. Parlck’s Day, March 17, is the day when one and all fare shamelessly forth wearing a bit of the green, be it a necktie, shamrock or hat, in commemoration of the patron saint of the Irish. Contrary to most celebrations of this kind the day doesn’t signify the birth of the saint but it is the anniversary of his death. Setting apart of his date as a feast day originated with the Emerald Isle, as was fitting, but in view of the numbers of O’Briens, Caseys and others who Xioint with pride to their Irish descent it is not surprising that the day is widely celebrated in Amer-
ica.
St. Patrick is remembered and honored for his extensive missionaxy work in Ireland but this fact is unknown to many people who associate him in their minds with the reputed scarcity of snakes in that country. It is not known where the myth arose that the venerable saint ever bothered to drive the
took up his abode in a monastery. During his period of slavery he had been subject to visions and conceived the idea of converting the pagan Irish to Christianity. He returned to France where he was ordained and sent by Germanus to
Ireland about 432 A. D.
He began his missionary w T ork by establishing a church in an old bam and in spite of constant conflicts with Logaire’s Druids his teachings began to spread. From this humble beginning he became very successful in his work and during his lifetime he established at least 365 churches and converted many thousands. His labors came to an end with his death in 493 at the advanced age—if the dates are correct—of 106 years. Even his burial place is disputed but it is believed to be at Saul
where his death occurred.
Many would have us believe that he was a saint only through tradition. It is true that the Roman church never proclaimed him a
It is said that another change in the xiersonnel of the President’s Cabinet is contemplated, the attorney general being transferred to the post of governor of the Philippines?. By the suggested change, the attorney general will lose hisr chance to become President by succession. If the President, the VicePresident, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War were removed by death, the attorney general would occupy the White House. The attorney general, of course, does not covet the place of the chief executive through any such calamity as that, and no doubt will take his place on the islands without giving a thought to the fact that so far as the next three years are concerned, his chance for sitting in the White House,
has departed.
School at her home Tuesday night Mrs. William Landrey and daughter, of Chicago, visited with Mrs. Landrey’s father, Ralph Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tingling, Miss Lavera and William Yingling, and Mrs. Jose Cox, of York town, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Marker Sunderland and daughters, Lois and Rosemary. Miss Minola Ash, of Chicago, is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Jackson and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Turner en tertained at dinner the members of the Daleville and Yorktown High School basketball teams, coaches and trustees. Talks were made by Coach Ralph Heath, of Oaleville, and Coach Arthur Beckner, of Yorktown. Covers were laid for the following Yorktown guests: Roy McKibben, Gene McKibben, Chas Donovan, Budd Derbyshire, Tom Sears, Cody Allan, Farrell Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller and Arthur Beckner. Daleville guests were: Tom McAllister, Earl Smith, William Snodgrass, Dwight Stiffler, Donald Ross, Henry Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Heath, Mr. and Mrs. Cary Richman, Mrs. Helen Potter and Donell Turner.
snakes from Ireland. Nevertheless, saint but it is also a fact that the it has persisted down through the i same church has always recognized centuries despite the fact that j him as such. It is to be rememthere is no documentary evidence i bered, too, that in those early days to show r that he ever conducted a the regional churches possessed crusade against the serpent. He and exercised powers equal to cannot be credited with driving those of the Mother church. Thus,
According to rumor, an American has offered to buy himself a job as king of a small European country. If the ’report has anything behind it, truth indeed is stranger than fiction, and one should be slow in condemning motion-picture plots as based on an improbability.
them from Scotland but it is well known that the land of kilts is free of them. England, too, boasts of its lack of the crawling tribe. Both England and France claim the honor of being the land of St. Patrick’s birth but as a great deal of obscurity surrounds this event it is largely a matter of controversy. It has been agreed, how-
we find that the Irish church canonized or proclaimed many, many saints Including St. Patrick. He was held in such reverence and esteem that it is not at all surprising to find that the adoption of the shamrock as the national emblem of Ireland may be traced indirectly back to him. According to tradition the shamrock with its
ever, that this blessed event took i single stem and triple leaf was his
place in the year 387 A. D., and that he was the son of a landed I>roprietor, a deacon named Calpurnius. He w r as kidnai>ed at the age of 16 by a band of pirates and taken to Ireland where he remained as a slave for a matter of 10 or 12 years (some say only six.) He
favorite method of illustrating and explaining the doctrine of the Trinity. His first use of the shamrock for this purpose is said to have been when he appeared before a gathering of chieftains and Druids at Tara. On that day one of the most powerful of the chief-
finally made his escape on an out-1 tains became converted and was going trading vessel to the shores I baptised together with his family of the Mediterranean where he land all his tribesmen.
Here, There (Continued From Page One) enough to have the intended victim save them the trouble. Maybe it’s the hangman’s mentality, which seems to remain about the same through the ages and evidently we have same worthy successors to the three burly executioners who entered the room of the young English prince and burned out his entrails with a red hot iron.
James E. Watson, who gave you au excellent sample of his donothing statesmanship while a member of the United States Senate, during the dark days of the Hoover administration, is out making speeches against the “New Deal.” It is better to cling to the old ways, even if we all starve to death in the process—intimates the fossilized Mr. Watson.
In saso the United States government issdes ten billion dollars worth of bonds bearing five per cent interest, it is obvious that the taxpayers will be compelled to pay an additional half billion dollars annually, to meet the interest. The banks, in fill probability, will purchase most of the bonds. Isn’t it quite certain that the banks will then have ten billion dollars less available funds to loan to legitimate private enterprise? But if the government of the United States should issue ten billion dollars in actual currency to he retired at the rate of five per cent each year, wouldn’t the money paid out in annual interest under the bond issue scheme pay off the entire ten billion dollar debt in twenty years? Then what is wrong with the idea of issuing the currency in lieu of the interest bearing bonds? That is, unless you are running a large financial institution with millions to loan safely at five per cent interest.
flint—as soft as a
-as cross as
-as free as
In case you want to say that this or that is as so-and-so as something else, perhaps you can find what you need in the following oldtime poem which compares almost everything you can think of: As wet as a dish-rag—as dry as a
bone;
As live as a bird—as dead as a
stone;
As plump as a partridge—as poor as a rat; As strong as a horse—as weak as
a cat;
As hard as
smile;
As white as a lily—as black as
coal;
As plain as a pikestaff-
a hear;
As tight as a drum-
the air;
As heavy as lead—as light as
feather;
As steady as time—uncertain as
weather;
As hot as an oven—as cold as a
frog;
As gay as a lark—as sick as a dog; As slow as a tortoise—as swift as
the wind;
As true as gospel—as false as man-
kind ;
As thin as a herring—as fat as a
ptg;
As proud as a peacock—as gay as
a grig;
As savage as tigers—as mild as a
dove;
As stiff as a poker—as limp as a
glove;
As blind as a hat—as deaf as a
post; *
As cool as a cucumber—as warm
as toast;
As flat as a flounder—as round as
a ball;
As blunt as a hammer—as sharp
as an awl;
As red as a ferret—as safe as the
stocks;
As bold as a thief—as sly as a fox; As straight as an arrow—as bent as a bow; As yellow as saffron—as black as
A Nazi speaker in Germany thrills his hearers by declaring that, “the worst is behind us.” It is not possible to put one’s o. k. on all that the chancellor of the Fatherland has done, but perhaps many of us in the United States can profitably turn Hitlerite to the extent of feeling and saying that the deepest and swiftest waters have been crossed.
Uncle Jeh Pruden sez: “With all] Ihet’s goin’ on down tu the Stait House hetwene Guvner Micknut, Peas Greenley ’en A1 Feney, In regards tu the polise corpse, an’ ’em ■;allin’ each uther snakes ’en so du, it looks like they orter invite 3t. Patrick tu cume down ’en Irive sume uv the reptils intu Fall Crick. One truble seems tu be Ihet ther’s tu much “Peas Greenley.” ’er “Green Peasley,” ’en not ’nugh good Demokratic hoss-sense 'er ther wuldent be so much sightin’ jist afore the ’lection. When Demokrats hev to he fingerprinted ’en examined ,befor’ a justis uv the pease tu find out wether ’er not they voted fur the Guvner in the priamery, befor’ they can see him, it looks like they orter change the Stait constitushun. But uv course they wont ask Demokrats tu hev ther fingreprints taken befor’ lettin’ ’em vote in the next ’lection. Enyways they orter git St. Patrick tu cume down befor’ he goes on his next vacashun, ’er mebby they’l all hev snakes, after the ’lection.”
What! "Watson likely G. O. P. chairman; Farley to quit,” says the Muncie Star. And we always believed Farley to be a Democrat.
NOW From Your
It frequently occurs, that our ignorance gets us into less trouble than trying to explain things we
know nothing about.
Scietists tell us that six out of! every ten people have -one les shorter than the other. They don’t say which leg is short, hut we presume it is the one our wives pull. Noah’s Ark is said to have been like a broken down actor, because
it had a “Ham” on hoard.
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The reason why some of us cannot afford to buy our wives new Easter hats this year, is because we have to save up our money to pay our share of the May installment of tax, which the fellows who have tax exempt bonds should pay, hut. don’t. Some people are so dumb they imagine the wall now under construction along Wheeling Avenue, is part of a plan to enclose a “nudist colony.”
BANKRUPTING INDUSTRY. Some editors, in their articles, seem to think that if industry shortens hours of work and raises wages, industry will not be able to operate and make profits. I take issue with their stand and ask any one of them why stockholders in industry live in fine mansions and buy fine cars every year, pay executives large salaries, yet, when anything is said about raising wages, these editors raise a howl. I wonder who owns these newspapers? They seem to be for the chosen few; never saying that the worker should also enjoy some of the things which they produce. Wake up, fellow workers, and use the power you possess to mak~ these editors see the light. E. C. HOLSCLAW. (Moral: Subscribe for The PostDemocrat.)
Miss Inez , Phillips, twenty-eight, New Orleang, recently departed for the orient on a world tour with $3,500 that she had saved for the trip in nine year’s work as a stenographer • ’■'JSlJh
The fellow’s who are always tell ing us the world is getting better, are usually the ones who are mak ing it worse.
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There are “Codes” for every line of business these times, except of course, the undertaker, who always gets the last chance, and usually carries - off “the remains." .
Be wise and try to live so that when you have passed away, your friends will think as much of you as your mother did.
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NOTICE TO BIDDERS. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the County of Delaware, will receive sealed proposals and bide at the office of the Auditor of said Coun-
With sixty candidates running for office this year, there ought to
be about sixty thousand promises ty until the hour of 10 o’clock a. m., made, hut the trouble is a fellow on Thursday, March 29, 1934, for can’t cash in on them in any of the furnishing of meats, groceries,
clothing and dry goods, for use at the Delaware County Infirmary and clothing and dry goods for use at
the banks.
There is a decided difference between “striving to get up,” and “giving up.” If you are in doubt, try the latter in your everyday business, and see the result.
the Delaware County Jail, estimates and specifications for which supplies are now on file in the office of said Auditor, at said clay and hour such bids will be presented to said hoard. The contract for furnishing said supplies to the County Infirm,aay will he for the second quarter of
year 1934.
Bids will not be received on a percentage basis, but definite bids must be submitted on each article or quantity. Successful bidders shall deliver all goods and supplies to the institutions free from freight, express or drayage. Each
There is at least one good thing bid shal1 be accompanied by nonthat can be said about the present ! co H 1,s i on affidavit and also a bond
That Philadelphia manufacturer who stepped into a taxi cab, ordered the driver to drive to an undertaker, and then blew r his brains out, certainly didn’t use a “wood-
en gun.”
When a fellow has been out with the gang all night the “night before,” isn’t it funny what a bad taste his wife will have in her mouth, the “morning after?”
depression, and that is, hundreds of men and women are doing -without lots of things their grandpar-
ents never saw.
In order to he successful in
life, and acquire a fair share of worldly goods, one should not filch from his neighbor that which_ is rightfully his, nor try to deprive!
him of the right to live.
conditioned as required by law in
the sum of $500.
Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Done this 16th day of March, 1934. W. MAX SHAFER, Auditor Delaware Countv, Ind.
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Sistie Dali is down with the measles at the executive mansion, a small matter for national comment, perhaps, but not without its lesson. It should he remembered that, in addition to extraordinary burdens, persons in high places have to put up with most of the troubles of the more humble.
Scientists are claiming that smoking is not so bad, after all, which brings to mind a remark attributed to Henry Ward Beecher “A man may be excused for smoking tobacco, but there is no mantle of charity broad enough to cover the sin of smoking bad tobacco.” Quoting again, recall the sailor who said: “There ain’t no such thing as had tobacco. Of course, some tobacco is better than others, but I never yet. saw r any tobacco that deserved to he called dow’nright had.”
Counting back a decade from the present year, the Allies and Germany were dickering over reparations. Twenty years ago, the World War started, thirty years ago the Russo-Jap War began, and forty years ago the Chinese-Jop War opened.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF HEARING ON APPROPRIATIONS
In the matter of the passage of , certain ordinances by common a council of the city of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware County, providing for special appropriation of funds. Notice is hereby given taxpayers of the city of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware County, that a public hearing will be in the city hall, Muncie, Indiana, on the 2nd day of April, 1934, at 7:30 o’clock p. m., on ordinance making special and additional appropriation. An ordinance appropriating $25.00 of the General Fund to pay claim of Virgil Rathel. Taxpayers appearing shall have the right to be heard thereon. After the special appropriations have been decided upon by the Council, ten or more taxpayers, feeling themselves aggrieved by such appropriations may appeal to the state board of tax commissioners for further and final action thereon by filing a petition therefore with the county auditor not later than ten (10) days from the date of the final action of said council and the state board of tax commissioners will fix a date of hearing
in this city.
COMMON COUNCIL, of City of Muncie, Indiana. LINTON RIDGEWAY, Mch. 9-16 Clerk.
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