Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 December 1908 — Page 1

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VOL. :i.

TO DISCUSS FARM THINGS

School, L. CJ. Wright. OiHciiKsioii, Arthur Real and Roscoe Todd. 2:30, Slioci) on the Farm, W. B.

I'rofjrams I'or Four Farmers Insti- i ^ nderson.

lutes tit be Held in Putnam Conn- IHscussion, John \\. Rolte and I. tv Within the Next Two Weeks— ' llurst At C’lovertlale Next Momlay and A »' * 10 " wiU b ‘ ! K i "“ 11 to the exhibitor of best 10 ears «)l I uesday. corn of any variety.

INTERESTING PAPERS TO BE READ

Russellville Institute. The Russellville Institute will be held on Friday, January 8, and the

Following are the announcements, aTrtl programs for the Farmers’ In- 1

following program will be given the I. O. O. F. Hall:

stRates to be held in Putnam Coun-

ty during the next two weeks; The Cloverdale Farmers' Institute will he held on [Monday and Tuesday, December 2.x and 28 at Woodman's Hall. The following program 'Will be given: ^ MON DA Y MORNING, 9:30. Music. Invocation. Music. Management of Haying Hens, Otis Crane, Lebanon, Ind. General discussion. The Money Value of the Local

MORNING SESSION, 9 : 1 f. Music. Invocation. Rev. Hargrave Music. 10:0, Relation of the Tenant to the l^uid Owner, .1. R. McCabe. Discussion, Wilbert Saylor. 11:00, How to Succeed with Clover, W. V. Anderson, Welken, Ind Discussion by Institute. AFTERNOON, 1:15.

For-

Farm Poultry, Mrs. W. W.

dice. *

Poultry Business, A. L. Secrest. Tlie Farm Garden, Ella Sinclair. AFTERNOON. 1:30. M usic. A living from Twenty Acres, Mr. Crane. Discussion. The Agriculture Outlook, W. E. Gill. EVENING, 7:00. Music. Hoys’ and Girls’ Clubs Mr. Crane. M usic. Reasons For and Again.d Centralized Schools. (Speaker to hi* an nounced.) Discin ' ion. Tl ESI)AY MORNING, 9.30. (Music. The Value of the Clover Crop Charles Davis, Rockville, Ind. The Soil, How impoverished, How Improved, J. U. Burris. -afternoon, ryjo:' Music. ivianagcnient and Cultivation of the com Crop, Mr. Davis. Value of Hie Corn Crop, lleiiry Coffman.

Discussion, H. M. Grimes. 2:15, Maintaining Soil Fertility,

W. B. Anderson. Discussion by Institute. M usic. EVENING, 7:30. Music. How a, Young Man May Acquire Farm, Walter Sutherlin. Discussion, J. F. Clodfelter. Music. Cultivating the Corn jrop. W A nderson. Discussion by Institute.

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Rouclidule Institute.

The Roaehdale Institute will held on Thursday, Januui > T, 1909 and the following program will b given: ‘

Fillmore Institute. The Fillmore Institute will be held on We Inesday, January 0, 1909. The following program will he given: MORNING SESSION, 9:30. Invocation, Rev. W. H. Brown.

iMosic.

Remarks, Fred Todd. Chairman. 1:00, Grain Growing vs. Stock Raising for Maintaining Soil Fertility# W. li. Anderson of Pike County. Discussion led by John T. Jones.

MORNING. 10 no. invocation. 10:30, Short talk by the chairman T. D. Hrooksliire, on The Good Things to be Gained by Assn* iatton and! Exchanging of Ideas on Fimn in*. 4 . 10:45, Song, Evans Sisters. Address. A Story of a Worn Out Farm. W. P. Anderson. 11:30, Discussion, led by .1. T.

Jones.

AFTERNOON, 1:10. Song by High School. 1:20, Address by School Superintendent, P. B. Hutcheson, Subject, What May lie Done in Public Schools for Farmer Boys.” 1:40, is a Silo Profitable 1 ? Lee

Collins.

2:00, Address, Cultivating Corn Crop, W. P. Anderson. 2:30, L. C. Hutcheson leads in dis-

cussion.

11:00, Successful Poultry

Rais-

2:5o, Song, Evans sisters.

ing, Mrs. (’. Pickett.

3:00, Mr. Ralph W. Moss,

Con-

Discussion, let! b>

Mrs.

Aaron

gressman-elect from the Fifth

Dis-

Cooper.

triet will address the meeting.

AFTERNOON,

1:30.

3:40, Song, K. of 1’. Quartet

M usic.

T. 1). Brookshire, Chairman.

1:30, Agriculture in

tlie

Public-

F. H. Bowen, Secretary.

Special—Fur Coats

We have consigned to us on approval, by Wm. H. Miller & Co., of Detroit, Mich., 6 Handsome Fur Coats \ regularly worth (to quote their letter) from ^bU.UU to $150.00. These six coats represent each a different style and are mude in popular and stylish furs. We shall keep these coats until next Thursday And in the meantime

GREFNCA8TLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER JUI. l»on.

SINGLE COPIES 2c.

Offer them to you at a Decidedly Lower Price than those quoted above

And further— Any Fur Scarf, Fur M’uff or Fur Matched Set can be bought of us for decidedly less money than before Christmas prices. It’s a splendid opportunity to buy a desirable fur at less than value.

ALLEN BROS.

The A B C anJ X Y Z of

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^ M mi > OF I FN T\LKS ON ADYLK .lSINU writu-n by Seymour Laton of Philadelphia

No. 2

Advertising and news are first cousins. The railroad and the stage coach are grandchild and grandfather.

Four out of five advertisers still use stage coach methods The agency that distributes news has the quickest, cheapest and most effective machinery for distributing advertising. That agency is the newspaper.

The man who passes your shop window is going somewhere. He is on some other errand. If you want to catch him when he is not in a hurry put your shop window in the newspaper; a few articles at a time. You can make a hundred and fifty thousand people look at this kind of window every day and with much better selling results than if that hundred thousand walked by your shop one by one.

OUR ELECTION AND REPEAL

What Would be the Status of Putnam County in Case it Should Vote Dry and l.ater the I ,aw Should he Striekeu From the Books.

DIVERS OPINIONS ARE EXPRESSED

I know a retail store in one of our large cities, a branch of an English house, which until the autumn of 1906 was managed by an Englishman; austere, conservative, dignified; a man who would have ueen shocked to see his shop advertised in an American newspaper. He hud an exclusive trade and his net profits amounted to about $20,000 a year. This Englishman died. His assistant, an aggressive young American, took charge. He advertised; advertised continuously in the best local newspaper. Last year this exclusive shop made a net profit of over $80,000. Why? Simply because there are five hundred thousand well-to-do people in that city who never knew that this shop existed until they saw those advertisements in the newspaper; and the shop has an excellent street location, too.

This is a concrete case, the facts of which I personally know. The Englishman depended upon the quality of his goods and his beautifully crested stationery and his attractive shop window and his perpendicular-backed dress-parade clerks; all of which were above criticism. The young American put the whole show into the newspaper; admission free.

Show me ten shops which advertise regularly in a daily newspaper and 1 will show you nine that are making money. The failure of the tenth is probably due to bad management of some sort. Some people value goods by the price they pay; others by the shop in which they buy; others by the effect the goods have upon their neighbors. It is only the common workaday sensible people who value goods by the goods. If you want all four classes as customers it is your business as an advertiser to make the cap fit.

THE GRAVEL ROAD REPAIR

romiiiissioiicrs Mi 1 * 1 ! to 1 onniiler I'liiims fop the Work of Keeping our <'ounty llitfliwnyn III Ftt-ssalile I' lit ion.

IS MeCAMMACn LAST DAY

1 1 1,loss the nnforseen happens ami

a special meeting of the Board of CotnnilsiJoners is ealled, D. V. Mc("aminack, President of the Board, ilhl Ids last work as commissioner lor the county today. After faithful- ) V ,.|.ving the county and its people lor many years in 1 will lay aside the arduous duties of commissioner on

the iirst of the year, turning oifice over to Mr. Houck.

The last work of the hoard for the

year was a hard task. It was the consideration of claims for gravel road repair. Nearly $ 1 4,000 worth of claims were filed, the number of claims being about seventy. This includes repair to roads and bridges all over the county. It was no small task to go over all the claims and give due consideration to each. At the close of the work of the board the road superintendents pre sented to Mr. McCammack, the retiring president of the board, a beautiful Morris chair. It was a beautiful gift and much appreciated, showing as it did the esteem in which the president of the board is held.

One of the most interesting questions that lias come up since the decision to hold an election in Putnam under the county local option law, is whether or not tin 1 county would re main dry in case the present legisla lure should vote for repeal. There are divers opinions. On the one side many who arc interested in pushing the election believe that In case the county votes dry the saloons will be ousted for two years whether the law be repealed or not. On the other hand many of the local attorneys who have examined the law are of the opinion that the repeal would kill the effect of an election at once. They base their opinion on the reading of section 7 the law which is as follows: "The certificate of said election commissioners shall be filed with the auditor of said county not later than five days after said election, an<| th<j hoard of commissioners of said county shall make an order at the next regular session declaring the results and have the same entered of record the records of said court. If a majority of the legal votes ca&t at said election shall be in favor of prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor as a beverage in such county, shall thereafter be unlawful for said commissioners or any court to grant a license to any person for the sale of intoxicating liquors in said county, and the board of commissioners thereafter sdiall have no power or jurisdiction to bear or consider applications for license to sell intoxicating liquors nor to grant such license to any person in such county, until at a subsequent election held under this act a majority of the legal voters of said county voting at such subsequent election shall vote against prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage." The attorneys hold that since the section makes it impossible under the law for the commissioners to consider n license after a county votes dry until another election has been held, and since, If the law were repealed such election could not be held under the law, therefore the time a dry vote under the law would he effective would be only during the life of the law. If the section defining the powers of tin 1 commissioners had stated that they could not consider a license for two years from the time of tin 1 voting, then, possibly, the county would remain dry for two years even if the law were repealed. But no such limit is fixed and the limit that is fixed becomes impossible when the law is killed. Section 8 has been mentioned as fixing the limit at two years. But Section 8 declares that elections must not be held oftner than two years and leaves the limit indefinite.

LEAVE SALEM OFF LINE

supply the company with adequate wat* 1 !* and lias not the money to extend its mains to several valuable springs north of the town that will be tapped by the Monon company when it acquires the ownership of the land on which the springs are located. The railroad company has been compelled to haul water from New Albany the past three months to supply its tank at salem. This entailed an expense of some $3000. The Monon has taken no stops to replace the depot that was burned, and now intends to rebuild it on the new ground they contemplate purchasing. Thus will the elevators and manufactories he compelled to move to the new lin*> proposed by the .Monon people who claim that they will discard the present track through Salem and claim that by so doing lhey will be saved the necessity of paying taxes on some two miles of useless track. The Salem quarry just northwest of the town, that has been practically abandoned, will he left by the roadside, figuratively speaking. Tin* present track entering and leaving Salem l& considered me of the most dangerous pieces of r.mdhed on the entire system, and requires must labor, cost and care to keep it in repair. Many expensive wrecks have occurred just north of Salem and the 'Motion also gives this as one reason for the change. The fight between the Monon and He authorities began several years ago when the town endeavored to compel iln* road to " sintain ilectric ligl'R at all crossings. The case was fought out tn the courts resulting In victory for the town. The water inestion precipitated another ’’spat" and the end is not in sight.—Bedford Mail.

EXEECUTIVECOMMITTEEMET

Men Ap|M»inte<1 by the Mass Meeting la«st Monday lo SiiihtvIm 1 the Work of Organizing the County Option Flection Consult.

TOWNSHIP LEADERS APPOINTED

The executive committee appointed at the mass meeting last Monday night to arrange the details for the county local option election proposed to he held, met this afternoon In the assembly room of the cmTrt™housm The meeting was called to order by F. M, Lyon. Charles Bridges was elected permanent chairman of the

.Salem was the city in which the iic. e: -ful Democratic campaigns' of is>i2 and I9i>8 were opened.

SUGAR XING IS DEAD

Claus Spl'eckels, The San Francisco Millionaire Dies at His Home This Morning of Fneunionia—Had Been III Since Sunday.

San Francisco, Dec. 2t>.—(Special to The Herald.) Claus Spreckels, th*' millionaire sugar king of San Francisco, died this morning at his home a victim of pneumonia. Ho had been ill only since Tuesday.

SULLIVAN-McKENZIE

committee and George Hanna secretary, H. C. Allen treasurer and Mr. Jackson of Monroe township, vicepresident, George Hanna was then called upon to outline his plan of campaign. He favored the appointment of two men for each voting precinct to secure signatures to the petitions. He urged that the men appointed get tlie poll liooks of the two parties and use them as a basis of the canvass. •Mr. Hanna said he knew this would In- much work and believes these men should be paid. Considerable difference of opinion developed as to the time. Some favored waiting for the election. H. C. Allen and W. C. VanAisdel desired to rush the matter as much as I "sslble, and a motion was carried to have the petitions in by the 2nd of January. It was moved and carried that the president of the committee act to appoint the men in each precinct who were to secure the signatures for the petitions. Some difficulty was experienced in M uring the men. It was acknowltlged that it meant much and speedy work, and it was not every one who could be absent from his business as much as would be necessary. At the time of going to press the following men had been appointed: Warren township. Mac. Jones; Greencastle township, Rev. D. B. Johnson; Jackson township, John Jones; Franklin township, Drake Brookshire. The men so appointed are to appoint two men in each precinct to do Hie canvassing for signatures. The work will be begun tomorrow and pushed vigorously. The committee was still in session as we go to press.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mitchell, Mrs. James Mahoney ami Mrs. Frank Lane left this morning on an early rain for Louisville, Ky., where they v.ill attend the marriage of their brother, Mr. Kd. Sullivan, and Miss Surah Madelean McKenzie. The marriage will be solemnized tills evening at ti o'clock at St. John's < liureh of that city. Mr. Sullivan was formeraly a Putnam County young man. He was tlie son of Jus Sullivan of Piitnumville. Miss McKenzie is a Louisville girl. Both h ive many friends at Louisville and here who extend hearty congratulations to the young couple. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan will make their home in Dayton, Ohio, where Mr. Sullivan is superintendent for the contracting firm of Caldwell & Drake.

A CASE OF DIPTHER1A

Helen, the three-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood, who live on Anderson Street, is ill of diphtheria. The home was put unler quarantine by Dr. Sudranski yesterday. There are five children in the family. The family moved here recently from Clinton for the educational advantages this town affords. Mr. Sherwood Is Interested in business in Clinton.

‘‘The Happy New Year” is the morning sermon subject at tlie College Avenue church. In the evening the pastor will speak on, “The Benefits of Mystery.” These are the last Sunday services of the year.

Monon Contemplates < 'hanging Track to Leave Deinocrrtic Mascot City Far From the Railroad.

THE CITY AND COMPANY FIGHT

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The Christmas exercises of the College Avenue church were largely attended and most attractive. The Sunday School scholars were given each a stocking of candy and an orange. The silk banner was awarded to Mrs. Stephenson's class for the largest average attendance of the year.

The town of Salem and the Monon Railroad are again at war. The road Is negotiating for Dome fifteen acres of land located about a mile south of the town, upon which it proposes to erect large and commodious stock pens. It will also install a yard system of switches at the new point, and run a new or main track from tlie proposed yards straight through the northeastern portion of the city, abandoning its pre£«‘iit tracks. The new line will connect with the main road again some three miles north of the town, near where the old water tank was located. This move on the part of the railroad company is caused by a twofold reason. I First, the town of Salem cannot

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