Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 12 April 1935 — Page 3

FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1935.

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF HEARING ON APPROPRIATIONS In the matter of the passage of certain ordinances by common 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 6th day of May, 1935, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. on ordinance making special and additional appropriation: An ordinance appropriating the sum of $1,175.00 out of the general funds of the City of Muncie, Indiana, to I lie Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Muncie, for the maintenance and operating of the animal shelter, a department of said city, for the remainder of the fiscal year 1935. 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, City Clerk. April 5 and 12.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals and bids at the office of the Auditor of said County, up to the hour of 10 o’clock a. m. Tuesday, April 16, 1935, for the furnishing of Bread for use at the .Delaware County Infirmary and for the furnishing of Mens Clothing for use at the Delaware County Infirmary and Delaware County Jail, estimates and specifications for which are now on file in the office of said Auditor. Contract for furnishing said supplies will be for the second quarter- of the year 1935. Separate bids shall be made upon said above classes of supplies. Definite bids must be submitted on each article or quantity and all goods and supplies are to be delivered to the institutions free fro mfreight, express or di’ayage. Each bid shall be accompanied by a non-collusion affidavit and by bond conditioned as required by [aw in the sum of $500.00. Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Done this 5th day of April 1935. Gus August Meyers Auditor Delaware County, Indiana April 5-12.

value of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each, all dated June 1, 1935, with interest from said date at the rate of four per cent (4%) per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July of each year, as evidenced by j interest coupons attached to said bonds. Said bonds and interest will be payable at The Merchants National Bank of Muncie, Indiana, and all of said bonds will mature and be payable on July 1, 1946. All bidders will be required to state in their proposals the gross amount they will pay for said bonds with interest accrued to date of delivery and will be required to enclose the proposals in sealed envelopes having endorser! thereon the nature of the bid and the name and address of the bidder. A certified check for two and one-half per cent (2 1-2%) of the amount of bonds bid for, payable to the order of said School City must accompany each bid and the proceeds from such check shall inure to the benefit of the said School City upon failure of the bidder to comply with the terms of his bid or take and pay for said bonds. Said bonds will be sold to the highest and best bidder for not less than the full par value thereof, with interest accrued to the date of delivery and the Board of Trustees shall have the right to reject any and all bids. Said bonds will be delivered to the purchaser at The Merchants National Bank of Muncie, Indiana, upon payment in full of the purchase price and accrued interest. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 12th day of April, 1935. SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE, IND. By WILLIAM F. WHITE VERNON G. DAVIS E. ARTHUR BALL, Board of School Trustees. Bracken, Gray & De Fur, Attorneys. April 12 and 19. o LEGAL NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that an emergency exists for a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of Niles Township, Delaware County, Indiana, to make appropriation of an additional amount of money for expenditure for said Township during the current year of 1935, as follows towit: Fund No. 4, Printing and Advertising $159.00 And that a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of said Township, and the Trustee thereof, will be held at the office of the said Township Trustee at his home in the said Township of Niles, on the 22nd day of April, 1935 at 7:30 o’clock p. m. of said day, at which time said appropriations will be considered. CHAS. E. WEAVER, Trustee of Niles Township. April 12 and 19.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that an emergency exists for a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of Liberty I ownship, Delaware County, Indiana, to make appropriations of additional amounts of money for expenditures for said Township during the current year of 1935, as follows, to-wit: Fund No. 24 School Furniture and Equipment $200.00 Fund No. 36 Tuition $500.00 And that a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of said Townchip, and the trustee thereof, will be held at the office of the said Township Trustee at Selma in the said Township of Liberty, on the 15th day of April, 1935, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. of said day, at which time said appropriations will bo considered. HARVEY R. KING, Trustee. A.!». 5 and 12. LEGAL NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that an emergency exists for a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of Perry Township, Delaware County, Indium, to make appropriations of additional amounts of money for expenditures for said Township during the current year of 1935, as follows, to-wit: Fund No. 4, Printing $ 25.00 Fund No. 8, Care of Cemeteries 200.00 Fund No. 23, Repair of Equipment 50.00 Fund No. 24, School Furniture and Equipment 450.00 Fund No. 35, Miscellaneous (Special) 30.00 Fund No. 39, Library 144.38 And that a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of said Township, and the Trustee thereof, will be held at the office of the said Township Trustee at his home in the said Township of Perry, on the 15th day of April, 1935, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. of t)aid day, at which time said appropriations will beconsidered. B. N. CARMICHAEL, Trustee of Perry Township. April 5 and 12.

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF HEARING ON APPROPRIATIONS In the matter of the passage of certain ordinances by common council of the City of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware County, providing for special approbation 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 6th day of May, 1935, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. on ordinance making special and additional appropriations an ordinance appropriating the sum of $250.00 out of the general fund, department of public parks, to budget item No. 251, department of public parks, for the use of said department in purchasing material for laying floors in cabins No. 2 and 5 in Heekin park. An ordinance transferring the sum of $500.' 0 heretofore appropriated to budget item No. 223, board of public works to the general fund of the City of Muncie, Indiana, and appropriating the sum of $500.00 to budget item No. 25, board of public works and also appropriating the sum of $100.00 to budget item No. 32 fire department of the City of Muncie, Ind. 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 bearing in -this city. COMMON COUNCIL, of City of Muncie, Indiana. Linton Ridgeway, City Clerk. April 12/dud 19. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

NOTICE OF THE SALE OF SCHOOL FUNDING BONDS Notice is hereby given that at 4:00 o’clock p. m., on Tuesday, the 7th day of May, 1935, at the office of the Superintendent of City Schools in the Central High School Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, sealed proposals will be received by the Board of School Trustees of the Sc hool City of JMuncie, Indiana, for the purchase of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,009.00) par value of School Funding Bonds of said School City, the proceeds from the sale thereof to be used for the purpose of refunding and extending the time of payment of certain, indebtedness of said School City evidenced by bonds heretofore issued. Said School Funding Bonds will he issued and sold pursuant to a resolution adopted by said Board of School Trustees on the 26th day of March, 1935, and will consist of ten (10) bonds of the par or face

MILK TRUST HIT AS RAPACIOUS AND THIEVING

Federal Trade Commission Reveals How Farmer and Consumer Are Robbed by Combines That Pay Big Dividends and Fabulous Salaries to Officials

State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: In the Delaware Superior Court January term, 1935 Complaint: Divorce, Gertrude Wharton vs. Charles Wharton No. 199S. Notice is hereby given the said defendant Charles Wharton that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with an' affidavit that the said defendant Charles Wharton is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Tuesday the 21st day of May 1935, the 38th day ot next term of said Court, to be holden on the 2nd Monday in April. A. D., 1935, at the Court House in the City of, Muncie in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in his absence. Witness, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at ihe City of Muncie this 22nd day of March A. D., 1935. Mable B. Ringo, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney. March 22-29-April 5.

‘‘Every guilty deed holds m itself the seeds of retribution.”— Longfellow.

Any lingering belief that there may be even one redeeming quality in the Milk Trust was shattered this week by the Federal Trade Commission in a sensational report on its investigation of the Philadelphia and Connecticut milk sheds. The inquiry was ordered by the Senate, in a resolution sponsored by Senator Pat McCarran (Def., Nev.) and the commission has done its work in the same thorough manner it removed the lid from the Power and Steel Trusts. The Milk Trust is portrayed as greedy, rapacious, thieving and contemptuous of the rights of the farmer and consumer—both of whom are robbed with ruthless impartiality. Cooperatives Rapped Having largely wiped out competition, the trust fixes the price it pays to the man who milks the cows and the price it charges the baby who drinks/ the milk. In this double barrelled exploitation, the commission declares, the milk barons have the cooperation of many of the farmers’ cooperatives, who are bluntly charged with having betrayed their own members in the interest of the big distributors. It is a comparatively simple matter for faithless cooperative officials to turn their .membership, bound hand and foot, oyer to the Milk Trust, the commission discloses. The farmers, it says, are under iron-bound contracts to sell their milk only to the cooperatives, wkleJi in turn negotiate through their officers with the Milk Trust. The commission adds: “Once a farmer begins shipping to a distributor, it-is not possible for him to change to another distributor, even though he may be dissatisfied, without the permission of the distributor (the Milk ( Trust). Trust Can’t Lose In two paragraphs the commission sums up the result of the Milk Trust’s “heads-I-win-tails-you-lose” practices. The dairy farmer, it declares, is a man of rags and patches.Thousands are in financial distress, due to the low price received for their milk. Many have mortgages on their farms, on which interest payments are in default. Others have abandoned dairy farming, disposed of their herds and moved into breadlines. The Milk' Trust, however, has been able to maintain its high profits, ranging around 14 per cent, even during five years of the depression. It pays large and regular dividends to stockholders, and fabulous salaries to its officers. For instance, the president of the National Dairy Products, which dominates the Philadelphia milk

shed and controls distribution in more than a hundred cities, was paid $117,099 in 1933, while 11 other officers received salaries and bonuses ranging between $30,000 and $83,120. The president of the Borden company, which rules the roost in Connecticut!! was paid $180,030 in 1932, and 14 other officers received between $30,000 and $107,225. Picking the Bones In fixing the price paid farmers, the commission declares,the Milk Trust always makes it as low as possible, and then chisels away a large part of it through various forms of skullduggery for which, the commission judicially observes, “it is difficult to find justification.” The farmer is told he produces too much, and a part of his milk is classified as “surplus,” for which he receives practically nothing. But the trust bottles it and sells it to consumers at high prices, and in this way cheated farmers supplying Philadelphia of more than $600,000 in one year. Farmers are declared to be “gypped” On hauling charges and on a number of other dubious schemes rigged up by thei trust to see that its dividends and highsalaried officials are paid lyPoliticians Help Out State laws and inspection services, ostensibly designed to protect the consumer, are turned to the advantage of the trust, he commission complains. Public officials are pictured as “Johnny-on-the-spot” to use their power to harass farmers when there are indications of revolt, sanitary regulations being employed to slug the disgruntled dairymen into submission. Because of lack of funds, the commission says, it was unable to extend its inquiry into other milk sheds, but it has no doubt that the evils it recites are almost universal. “Correspondence was found in the files of a large Philadelphia distributor,” the report declares, ^“indicating that agreements and understandings have been arrived at the fix prices to farmers and consumers i n other milk sheds.”

thusiasm and execution. All that goes up is bound to come down—taxes excepted. People who blaze in diamonds seldom set the world on fire. Men will sacrifice more for a poison indulgence than for food. The worst evil of wars is the moral laxity that always follows them. Because of superior instinct women’s first thoughts arc* best, men’s are not.

LEGAL NOTICE

Delaware county Poor Relief olaims for the month of March 1935, for allowance by Board O’f

| Commissioners.

Cary L. Richman, Trustee Poor Relief Thos. H. Miller, same Poor Relief

Carl D. Moore, same, same 67.36

Ernest E. Carey, same, same Chalmer D. Kern same same

Carl E. Ross, same same 13,012.39

Geo. W. Brinson, same,

same 46.66 W. E. Smith, same, same 818.23

R. N. Carmichael, same, same , Harvey R. King, same, same Roscoe Wingate, same, same Chas E. Weaver, same,

same

Witness my hand and official seal this 12th day of April 1935.

Gus August Meyers Auditor Delaware . County, Indiana-' Publish: Star & PD

April 12, 1935.

o— NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CITY PLAN COMMISSION ON PROPOSED EXTENSION OF BUSINESS DISTRICT

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j We strive to become what people | expect of us. j Don’t expect merit anywhere j when money says it. When mistrust or wilfulness !eaters love departs I Children live longer than for- ; merly,^ adults do not. Age for wisdom, youth for en-

Notice is hereby given the citizens of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that a public hearing will be held by the City Plan Commission of said City, on the 3rd day of May, 1935. at 4:30 o’clock p. in., at the regular meeting place of said Commission, bu the petition of Roy M. and Ellen Geen Bagley, for an extension of the business district. The real estate proposed to be County, City of Muncie, State of extended is situated in Delaware Indiana, and described as follows, to-wit: Thomas Morgan Sub. Ex W. Two (2), Section of lot Eight (S), |(ahge of Block Sixteen (16), being the third lot west from South Martin Street on West Jackson Street, in

said city. \ Petition on said proposed extension is now pending before the City Plan Commission. Person or persons feeling themselves aggrieved by said proposed ‘extension may appear before said Commission and enter their ob' jections thereto, and will be heard thereon. Dated this 12 day of April, 1935. Arthur K. Meeker, Secretary, City Plan Commission. April 12-19. o

Wise Cracks

Here’s the Town Hall Bulletin for this week: Gov. Laffoon introduces startling innovation. In a careless mement he made a Colonel of a Kentuckian . . . Autograph seeker narrowly escapes drowning. He wanted Mr. Beebe’s signature . . . Circus elephants break up parade by stampeding in front of movie house. They were showing a Mickey Mouse film . . . New Yorkers can always tell when spring comes. The rotogravures show society arriving home from Palm Beach . . . “The distance from a joke book to a microphone isn’t much,” says Portland, “but some current jokes shouldn’t have been carried that far—at their age.” Cordially, Fred Allen. o WISE IN ADVANCE A Union Pacific shopman had been drawn on a Federal grand jury and didn’t want to serve. When his name was called he asked Judge Pollock to excuse him. - “We are very busy at the shops,” said he, “and I ought to be there.” “So you are one of those men who think the Union Pacific could not get along without you,” remarked the judge. “No, your honor,” said the shopman. “I know it could get along without me, but I don’t want it to find it out.” “Excused,” said the judge.

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The easiest person to deceive is The sunny side of marriage is yourself. the outside.

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