Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 April 1898 — Page 8

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Change of time Sunday. Nov. 14, 1807. SO(K3 EAST: 'No. N. Y. una Boston Lim.,dailv 2:I!2 a.m. Wo. 6, ili'ast Mail, daily .. 8 43 a.m. No. 4. ^Atlantic Bx., daily 3:15 m.

No. 10, Ft. Wayne Ac, ex. Sunday. 6 :'27 p.m. No. 74, Local Freight, ex. Sunday 10:06 a.m. SExcept that No. 4 will not run Sundays between Peru and Toledo.

And No. 6 will not run Sundays between Peru and Detroit.

GOINLI WEST.

Wo. 11, Decatur Ac., daily ex Sun. 8:43 a.m. No. 5, Pacific B*., daily .12:31 p.m. No. 7, Kansas City Kx, can.ball, d'y .3.52 u.m. iso. 1, Fast, Line Mail, daily 9:10 p.m. No. 8, St. Louis Limited, dully 11:30 p.m. I*Io. 75, Local Freight ex. Sunday 11:50 p.m. l|On trains 2 and 3, through Kansas Cltyfiuffalo. clialr lias been added Trains 4 and will be "liyera," carrying through sleepers ond vestibuled chair cars between Kansas

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City office. 113 Main St. Lahr House Hlk' -2311 telephone 119. Harrison 307,

WEEKLY JOURNAL,

ESTABLISHED IN 1848.

FRIDAY APRIL 15 I8v8

To i»e Iucorpoiiued.

Linden voted last week to be an incorporated town. The party favoring incorporation bad a majority of 45.

Memorial Day at I'aikershurg. The John Coshow Post, A at Parkersburg, will observe Memorial Day with appropriate exercises Hon. P. S. Kennedy will deliver the address.

Hatt Not", a Caiuliditlo,

Covington Friend: Perry llatt, of Hillsboro, the genial, jovial traveling man, has after due consideration, decided not to be a candidate for county clerk on the Republican ticket.

The Last Day.

The first Monday of May, or May 2, is the last day for the payment of county and State taxes, but the city taxes go delinquent on the third Monday in April as heretofore. Remember only sev-n more days in which to pay city taxes without the penalty.

Knights of St. John. I-

Tht Knights of St John, about fifty ia number, attended mass in full uniform Sunday and received holy communion. The Knights will begin drilling at once and under the guidance of Captain Drury expect to land the first prize at Detroit next June and for the third time become the champions of the United States and Canada after which they will challenge the world.

Death of Dr. Charles YanClevo. Last Friday at three o'clock, Dr Charles VanCleave, aged thirty-one years, died at his home in Wingate after a two weeks' illness from typhoid fever, lie 1- aves a wife and two children. Dr, VanCleave was raised near New Market and had many warm friends over the county. The funeral occurred Saturday at 11 o'clock.

What "Reoonceiitrailos" Are. A writer on a New York paper asks: "Will you kindly give hundreds of your readers a definition of 'reconcentrados I have seen no man so far who could give others a satisfactory answer To which this answer is given: Steal bodily away from the overpowering influences of 'foreignism' and turn the work in piain, everyday English VVeyler, buicher, drew imaginarj' circles around Cuban towns and ordered old men, women and country to 'concentrate' and abide within. Such as obeyed were regarded as non-combatants, in our language and might have been called 'the concentrated.' The circles proved too large and the butcher caused a reconcentration within the actual limits of the towns, hence the 'concentrated' became the 'reconcentrated,' or in the Spanish equivalent, 'reconcentrados.' What is finally meant was actual imprisonment with starvation."

Sunday School Convention. The following is the programme of the thirtieth annual convention of the Franklin township Sunday school association to be held at the South Christian church at Darlington, April 28, 1893:

MOHNINO.

9:30—Devotional exercises R. Harper 9:45—Preparing the lesson Miss Kua Miller U:00—Discussion. 10:20—The review, what shall we do with it or how shall we conduct ft? Rev. A, E. Ewers 10:45—Discussion, 10:55—Song. 11:00—Our Sunday school compared with our secular school

N. U. Couberly

11:25—Discussion. 11:40—Miscellaneous business. 11:15—Adjournment.

AKTEIt.S'OO.V.

1:30—Praise service Rev. F. S. Qulgir 1:15—Miscellaneous business and report of committees. 2:00- Song. a:.' :05—Hible class teachings ...

Mrs. William Emmons

•2 :'J5— Discussion. 2:30—The teacher outsido tho school..... Rev. W. 11. IJroomfield 2:50—Discussion. •J: 55—Song. 3:00—The true measure of responsibility Rov. F. 1'. Trot,tor 3:20 Discussion. 3:30—Song. 3:35—Installat ion of officers 4:00—Adjournment,.

KVENINtl.

7:30—Devotional exercise Rev. J. C. Francis 7:40—Recitation Miss Jessie Cunningham 7:45—Quart 'tte. 7:50-Is the Sabbath school and its influences waning?

6:15—Quartette.

Rev. S. P. Fryberger

8:20— Heading Mrs Clara 15. Huntsinger 8:25—Song. b.30—Benediction Rev. A. L. West

AFTKK meals you should have simply a feeling of comfort and satisfaction. You should not feel any special indications that digestion is going on. If you do, you have i?i.digeBtion, which means not digestion. This may be the beginning of so many dangerous diseases that it is best to take it in hand at once and treat it with Shaker Digestive Cordial. For you know that indigestion makes poison, which causes Dain and sickness And that Shaker Digestive Cordial helps digestion and cures indigestion. Shaker Digestive Cordial does this by providing the di gestive materials in which the sick stomach is wanting. It also tones up and strengthens the digestive organs and makes them perfectly healthy. This is the rationale of its method of cure, as the doctors would say. Sold by druggists, price 10 centB to 81 per bottle.

THE TOWNSHIP.

How Its Government Could Be Made More Efficient, With Lower Taxes—Cut oil' tlie 1'owcr of Trustee unit (Jive

JIur« to tlio People.

The reorganizations of our civil and school townships is a much more embarrassing problem than a reorganiz ation of county government We will, however, follow the soundest political principles, the safest business experi ence, if we restore to the people of the respective townships the right to legislata directly, without representation of any sort. If the voters of each township be authorized to assemble in town meeting and personally discuss and vote upon the tax levy for the schools, roads, poor relief and the like, for the ensuing year, we will have adopted the most popular and most beneficient political institution ever invented for giving expression to the popular will in small and compact communities. The town meeting is the legislature, levying taxes and appropriating the necessary amounts for the various purposes of the township. This plan, now in existence in New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Illinois, is commended by the soundest experience and the ablest scholarship. The people are allowed to participate directly in the government of tbeir community young men become educated in the affairs of government: they are taught the value of debate. It is the school of the citizen which the republic cannot afford to do without. If we have confidence in the people, let them have an immediate and direct voice in matters of local public expense.

The executive duties of the township cannot be discharged by the town meeting, but must be devolved upon township officers, chosen by the town meeting or at township ele ctions.

The objection most likely to be made to the levy of taxes by a town meeting of the people of the township is perhaps the s'ze of our congressional townships and the difficulty of voters getting together in one meeting on account of the distance to be traveled. These objections might be met by providing a smaller political unit than the township. The township might be subdivied and the public meeting of the people in each subdivision might fix the tax rate for his own locality. It may be possible to devise a representative sj'btem for township government instead of a town meeting. At first thought it would seem that this would be too elaborate and expensive for mobt, if not all, townships.

The executive head of the township, the trustee, should make all contracts for the expenditure of appropriations made by the town meeting. He would, however, be strictly limited in his power to incur the liability by the appropriations made for the various township purposes. The string to the township purse would be held by the people themselves.

Another sound business principle which should be introduced in township affairs is that the custody of funds should be placed in the hands of a different person from him who has a right to draw upon the funds. Therefore the trustee should have no funds in his custody. All township funds should be placed either in the hands of the county treasurer, or, possibly, of the township treasurer, to be paid out according to law. This principle has long be observed in state and county organization. Its application to the township would abolish a large list of abuses. This principle, as well as other considerations, ought likewise to secure the abolition of the payment of road taxes by day labor. All taxes should be paid in money pursuant to general assessment. The working-out of road taxes, suitable and necessary, perhaps, in pioneer days, has long since ceased to be useful, and become a notorious source of fraud and corruption.

Another troublesome question in connection with township government is the relation of a city to a township This, however, is a mere matter of legislative detail, to be settled by practical consideration.

In reorganizing township government, no scheme would be complete which did not improve the office of justice of the peace so as to relieve it of the odium attaching to fees conditioned on the result of the case. This evil is manifest in justices of the peace holding offices in citieB and large towns, if not in country districts. Another question in reforming township government is, whether some of the functions of our present townships might not economically and for business reasons be surrendered to the county government. Thi6, however, is a detail. To unduly centralize the care of roads, the appointment of teachers and the relief of the poor in the county government, while promising greater efficiency, is contrary to the American theory of local self government. Yet, is it not possible that with an improved system of county government, such &B has been proposed, the people would have more confidence in it? Naturally we are jealous of further increasing the power of our boards of county commissioners, as at present constituted, yet, if the finances of the county, the purse, as it were, were in the hands of a popular

representative body, a county council such as has been suggested, wou not the people be willing and satisfied to intrust to such a body of their rep-e sentatives powers which at, pr-'seut, are withheld and retained in the various townships?

It eeems to the writer that these reforms need not be forced upon the people of any township. Thequebtion should be submitted to the vote of each particular township as to whether or not it would adopt the new form of township government. It might hap pen that some townships in a county would bii governed by the new plan and others by the old, depending on the particular circumstances and views of the people of the respective townships Yet it is believed that all this could be arranged by suitable legislation so as to work without friction.

Whether the suggestions for county and townsh'p refi.rm for which I have submitted are thought well of or not, it is certain that the present machinery of our local government is men tioned by students of local government existing in the various States in the Union, as being crude and imperfect. Nor do we need the instruction of trained scholars to advise us that the business of our counties and townships is not satisfactorily conducted. The point insisted upon is, that our system is wrong and can be improved so that the very men who now hold these local offices would themselves be enabled and required to give a better and more economical administration to the public business. The fault is by no means all with the officer himself it lies to a large exteut in the laws governing him.

The next article will deal with the government of cities and towns AUGUSTUS L. MASON,"' Chairman Committee on Municipal

Affairs, Indiana State Board of Commerce.

STILL AT WAR.

John Meteor is Still Fussing Away "With The Mormons of Polygamous Utah.

John Meteer is still waging warfare on polygamy in Utah and it seems that the whole press of the State are now discussing the matter. From the Southern Vcnsor the following tid bit is clipped: "Only ore editor in all Utah, Fred Nelson of the Tintic Miner, has been brazen enoujlt to uphold Meteer in his unwarrantable, indecent attack on polygamy, and the people of Richfield iu general."

When polygamy is so openly defended in the press it is fair to presume that it is openly practiced and is in popular favor as Meteer has so often charged. One other editor besides the Tintic man seems to side with Meteer, however, as the following editorial from the Iron County Record would indicate: "Before the manifesto was issued, when polygamy was a part of the Mormon creed, the sympathies of the Rec ord man were with the people made to suffer for obeying the principles of their religious faith. Both of his grandparents were polygamists, and better, more loyal men never trod this free American soil. The Record man was raised in the Mormon church, and respects the feelings of all sincere believers but he does not believe in a church or an individual saying one thing and doing the opposite

Meteer's paper is still blazing nway at the enemy but up to the last reports he had not been again assaulted or mobbed. He, on the contrary, seems even to be taking in 6ome cash as the following item from the paper i6 proof: "Cash received by the country editor is as mule meat to the starving prospector. Money sent entwined in poetry is as mule steaks seasoned with salt, pepper and sassafras tea. James Nilsson, one of our good friends at Monroe, sends the Advoeatc this musical note 'Your request for remittance came duly to band. Tho temptation to read ycu I cannot withstand. And herewith I therefore two dollars enclose With the wish that you'll no more be slapped ou the nose.'"

Emerson Wray Beaten.

Emerson Wray, of this county, lost his suit against H. W. Moore, administrator, in the Supreme Court, that body dismissing his appcai. The court held: 1. Courts have full control of the records of their proceedings through the entire ',erm at which such proceedings are had, and if the clerk inadvertently enters up a judgment which has not been rendered it is proper for the court to order it Btricken out without notice to the parties before signing the record. 2. No appeal can be taken from an order admitting new parties, as such order is not a final judgment. •,

Cadet at West Point.

Representative Landis has appointed Walter Hockman, of Frankfort, as cadet at West Point. Until recently Mr. Landis did not know that he would be called upon to make a recommendation for the Military Academy, the War Department failing to keep up with the congressional redisricting in Indiana. Young Hockman is a son of Milton Hockman, a prominent Republican, and veteran of the Tenth Indiana, General Manson's regiment. He will take bis examination in June.

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OT1CE OF APPOINTMENT.

I Notice is hereby piveu that tho under6i(rned, named a~ trUftee in an indenture of assiKiimeiit executed by Robert Smith, hay by virtue thereof duly qualilied as such trustee, and taken possession of all the property, rights crediis and elTects of said assignor, in trust, to he administered upon for the beneilit of all his bonaiide creditors, under order of the Montgomery circuit court and pursuant to the aws of the State of Indiana, relating to voluntary assignments

WILLIAM M. REEVES.,

March 29. 1898-::t Trustee.

OTICE Of INSOLVENCY.

In the matter of the estate of William E. Stephens, deceased: In the Montgomery circuit court. No 1,167.

Notice is hereby given that upon petition filed In said court by the administrator of said est.ite. setting up the insulliclericy of the estate of said decedent to pay tho (febts and liabilities thereof, the judge of said COUTI did. on the 26th day of March, 1898, And said estate to be probably insolvent, and order the same to be settled »ccoidingly. The creditors of said esiato are therefore hereby notified of such insolvency and required to file their claims against said estate for allowance

Witness the clerk and seal of said court at. Crawfordsville, Indiana, this 2th day of March, 1898. WALLACE SPARKS, 41 2t Clerk.

OTICE OF SALE OK REAL ESTATE.

In the matter of the estate of George W. Alleu, deceased. Proceedings to sell real ostate.

Notice is hereby given that by virtue of an order of the Clay circuit court, tlie undersigned. administrator of the estate of George W. Allen, deceased, will offer for sale at public auction at the door of the court house in the city of Crawfordsville, Indiana, on Saturday, the 30th day of April, 1898, the following described real estate located in Montgomery county, Indiana, towit,: Lots numoers nine (9), twenty-two (22) and twenty three (23) in G. W. and Allen's addition to the city of Crawfordsvlllo. Sale to begin at 10 o'clock In the forenoon erf said day.

Terms of sale—Cash In hand. WILLIAM E DAVIS. Administrator. Holllday Horner and A. C. Jennlson, attorneys for administrator. 4-1-41