Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 January 1931 — Page 2

GREENCASTLL HERALD PAGE TWO

M»H( K or OFTITION TO 1M-IfABM BUREAU DIRECTORS rkOVK HKiHVVAY BACK CREDIT COMMISSION

Notice is hereby given oy the un-1

dersigned Auditor ot Putnam County, I

Indiana, that a petition has been filed

in his office by John F. Hodshirc and Financial relief plans for fa mien, Bl , e j-j ivt , K L .b c kah lodge will meet otvTs.f. the improvement of a cer-|ol the slat, as being worked out by Mwml cvt , ni ■ at 8 O . clock . There

tain highway in Washington Town-jthe Agricultural Finance Commission, shop, Putnam Coi.niy, Indiana and l , ( ,, mly al)puinu , a by Governor Lesthat said petition is sot iur nearinf? , . . 4 „ before the Board of Commissioners lit ‘- rccelved endorsement ut the dirof said (.'ounty, on Monday. February ! tol u °f the Indiana Farm Buerau in 2. 1931, same being the iirst day of Uhelr llrst quarterly session of the the regular February term, 1931 of year held in Indianapolis, Januay 2 the Board, ami which said petition is | and 3 v . ln GloS8brenn e,, chairmau,

a: follows to-wit: To the Honorable ,

Board of County Commissioners 0 f fn^'nnapolis, IJ^ait J. II. Skinner, Putnam County, State of Indiana: j Lafayette and Samuel U. Guard of

We the undersigned respectfully I the commission, met with the dlrect-

represent to your honorable Board jors of the state farm bureau and extl.al vve :md each of us are resident' lalnod t , ntatiV( , pi . ot , 1 , un t0

fru -hold ’ . and lo^al voters in W ash i ^ ington Township, said County and rclleve lhe (k ‘P 1 ' et,80d

State, being more than 50 in number j I Ion of the farmers. W. 11. Settle, and we petition that you take the president of the furm bureau and propi i. 1, id and lawlul procedure to also a member of 'the commission,

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ing with rushed stone the following u - Sam » ol tlle Federal Intermediate highway in Washington Township, Credit Bunk of Louisville, Kentucky Putnam ( ounty, Indiana, and de- also attended the conference, scribed as follows: Although definite plans of the co*“Commencing at the north west cor- ... , , . ,

huve not been eomplt ted

will be installation of officers. Miss Crystal McFarland lias returned home after a \isit with relatives

in Greensburg.

The directors ot the Chamber ol Commerce and the merchants com-; niittee v\ill meet Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the First National |

Bank.

Funeral service for Clifford Mar-1 shall, Cloverdale barbel', who died in ■ his home following an illness of j pneumonia "11 be Sunday afternoon , at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in the • Clo\erdale cemetery. — THE FARM BUREAU OUTLOOK FOR 1931

ner of tl quarter north, i: easterly of the t the nor: lion, to which s; line bet Warren State.

.Said

sought t. passing

tate of '

township

The p i

course i : itad lot the pui | prove n

pat ing We >•

men of i crushed

way be i your peti

that the connects

ncing at the north west coreast half of the north east

: section 24, township 12:" a expected that a local credit cort 5 west, thence in a south |j»urution would be set up In each i 1 t ion L, about the center | county, through tthich loans can be

l line of said east half ol i east quarter of said secnship and range aforesaid,

i l east line is the township [ 11 is proposed that a local or county en said Washington and committee of three persons be select 1 own-hip, said (ounty and , q t 0 have charge of a survey re- , , Igarriing the needs for financial assist-1 i po ed highway herein , , , be laid out and established 1 11 nc,> ' rhe I<K ' i,1 , ' oporatlo, ‘ each ' me and over the real es- 1 in8ta,lCe will constitute a eoopcrutve ■ illiam Walter Lucas, said organjiaton of farmers, through . County and State. (which funds "ill lie available from ,-d road is to follow the j th( . rt . dt , l al In ,., liat ,. Cre ,| M flank,

in. present unimproved 1

made available to farmers through tlic Federal Intermediate Credit Bank.

P -J ' •

Girl Scouts iMeet Fiiday The Girl Scon's held their first meeting of 1931 in the Scout Room in the Methodist Church Friday aftirnooti. There were 15 present. After the business meeting, the afternoon was spent in wonking on tests. The meeting closed with the singing of "Taps.” • • • Pre-School Study Group To Meet Monday Prof. Stephen M. Coi \ will address the members of the Pre-School Child Study Group of A. A. U. W. at a meeting Monday evening. His subject will be “Motor Co-ordination.

then

LAFAYETTE, Jnd.,

Various dn isions of tlie Indiana Farm Bureau are looking forward to an increased interest in cooperative mark* ting and purchasing in 1931, according to officials who made the an nouncement in Indianapolis tills

week. • i

I. H. Hull, manager of the purclia*. I Twenty-four living sires i _ • /lovvi* Vwii'/ls! n un 11 riiwl r/v v

'ing department in speaking of soil ini provements during the coming year jsaid “There is no one dliing In the economic situation which the farmer should consider more strongly now than the opportunity of inert

TH« II’SANDS OF 1)1 \M()M)S IIKRK. 1 h is LichU nburg. Transvaal, South Africa, where a recent diamond strike disclosed alluvial-

ly mined stones as frequent as pebbles.

IC. Kvlur and S.m, Columbia City;

TO GBT tu UtDS I ROM i u v . H i PIKDLE INIVEKSlIl 'Trafalgar; Nelson l>. Shaffer. Indi-

| anapolis; Chas. I). Shock, Rochester; F. E. Weller, Garrett; Vickers &

•Ian,' 10.— in Indiana

Shoemaker. Muncie; bronze. Guernsey—C. F* Lewis, Bourbon;

Putnamviile P. F. A. Held Meeting Jan. 8 The Parent Teachers ol p u t nani ville held their regular meeting ;r the school house Jan. 8. The p n>sl . dent, Mrs. Glenn Fry opened th. meeting by singing „Tramp! Tramp' Tramp!” followed by the Lord’s in a ,

er.

The secretary’s report read and approved.

The primary room took the | Hn . nant with thirty member pi, After the business meeting, MtKey Jones gave an ineresting talk oii “Cnild Welfare,” and wliat benelit

it was 4o the child.

The county nurse, Miss gave a splendid talk on. "Health and Cure For the Children.'’ The P. T. A. song was sung ihm a splendid program by the ininiiiiv room whs given consisting of ,,1^., music and readings. Apple.. an ,| candy were served during the ociai

hour.

I a above described and I ll " ils exp,a,,1 ‘’ tl ,hat the Larmers of this petition is t*. im- "'ll be required to pay not more than by giading, draining, and tiVa per cent for borrowed funds h crushed stone. ! through tliis source unci cun secure it nm. nd that the improve-l for ninc nionthjj time with renewals, • Atoresaut highway bt* ot ; , . , . . , , , s , -lie. and that the said high : H advlliab,e - t0 i,u;lude “ prno ' 1 of ade 35 feel iu width, and I'“H more tlian three years. Loans oner will further show jean be secured for the purchase of highway herein described livestock, feed, seed and fertilizer. »*> I.* *' macadmize.l i.,ud at its terminis. j UKnt ol 1, ’ a,IH - Achantages of lhe And we further petition that saicl|«y^tem include iiotli liberal time for iniprovenn nt lie 1 ordered without sub-! repayment and a lower rate of Interi.iitting the .-nine to an election l»;.’;,,st than usually prevails through oth

• he (|ualiiKi| voters of said township, as said highway be improved and laid er

ou( a- hem 't forth is less than 3, The directors also approved the re-j gtock markelJ ^

miles in Incih, being about 1 2 mile.! l^nt of the tux survey cimmittee of* Signed ty John F. Ilodshire and 51 j which Lewis Taylor, vice-president, is

others. M

, , In member. ,

in Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal! of mv office at Greencastle, Indiana,' this the 7th day of January, 1951.

dairy herds qualified for medals of-j silver. W. P. Wilson, Alexandria; W. feted by the Indiana State Dairy | I). Humke, Roanoake; Cohee & Redi Association (lin ing 1930, I!. A. Gan-i ding. Flora; Robinwood Fatm, Mun-

; non, of Purdue university, secretary . tie; bronze,

lot' the association, announced today, i Six ol the medals were silver and

.. , . ' were bronze. The awarding of these his soil fertility to the place where , . . z- .1

, , , medals is u part of the

the per unit cost ol production can . , . . , j , . ^ program sponsored by

be greatly reduced in future yeara. | Asso. mtion and carried on by!

Ibis is the opportune time to build . , . 1 r P . , . extension workers ot Purdue. 1 h* _

soils when the Pdcea of .arm produeta nledul; . ;il . e lo b , K j vvll Thursday. ! valves 150; -heep, 1,200. ale ow. * . uggested that nm j un u a i ^ be Agricultural Confer-J H ( ,g prices early today at the local

cnee at Purdue university. j live stock miiFket were steady to 15e Tile 24 awards this year bring the i higner with niost of the advance on

Proved Sire' the State i

Livestock

INDIANAPOLIS, Hid.. Jan. Receipts: Hogs, 3,000; cattle,

10.—

100;

Slate Vice President Guest of P. T. A. Here

Mrs. M. W. Blair, of Terre Haute, state vice president of the ParentTeachers Association was an honor guest of the Mary Eniiua Jones P. T. A. meeting Friday afternoon. She ^ gave a very interesting talk on the j

otganization of P. T. A. work. |W. R. C. To Install The program was opened with the i Office)s Monday

devotions conducted by Mrs. E. R.| The Woman’s Relief . Bartley, followed bv a vocal duet byj'"*'" Monday afternoon ut

Helen Birkes and Lucile Rickhart. I'Fhere will be Installation

Virginia Montgomery gave a violin | solo, followed by a vocal solo by Mary Grant and Katherine Grant. At noon yesterday the officers of the Mary Emma Jones Parent Teach ers Association gave a luncheon honoring Mrs. Blair in the College Inn.

W. F. GILL, Auditor of Put-:

num County.

2t. Jar,. 8-15. Posters.

^1 It’s a waste of time to worry along with incompetent help when an army of good material awaits you among the readers of the classified columns. CJjThe want ads—next to the telephone—ai* the necessary lieutenants of the modern, busy busi* ness man.

TELEPHONE US NEWS

Your co-operation will be ap predated and you can help to make the Herald even a more newsy paper by calling 6b and telling the reporter if anyone has— Died; Eloped; Married; Divorced; Left town; Embezzled; Been hurt; Had a fire; Sold a farm; Had a baby; Hccu arrested. Bought a home; Committed murder; That’s news—Telephone us.

fourt.li ol <thc farm lands in Indiana Inset aside from the raising of grain crops, limed heavily and seeded down with sweet dover. which later ran he* ployed under with a sufficient amount ol fertilizer to increase the field to a poin*t where the farms can produce crops at a profit, even if prices for

their product^ are low.

L. K. Highlen, 'director of live

Bur

eati, in announcing that the producers Commission Association a‘. the Indianapolis stock yards recently do dared dividends of approximately 440,000 for 1930, which was distrib uted to member patrons, stated that lie expects the year of 1931 to show a big gain iu cooperative livestock

marketing.

During tile past eight years of its existence, this association lias iucreas ed its precentage of Livestock handled a', tile Indianapolis yards annually making not profits in that time ol j 1531,000 of which over $300,000 lias 'been returned to member patrons in

cash refund*.

The Central States Grain Association in the offices of the Indiana Farm Bureau is also looking forward to a greatly increased volume this year over 1930. “Inquiries from grain growers concerning the Federal Farm Board plans of cooperative grain mnketing are more miuicrous

j Child Study Group To Meet Monday

The Pre-School Child Adolescent Study Group wil meet Monday even- | ing at 7:30 o'clock at the Bowman

I'i'S "il| ! o'clock. l ' 'liner

Child Welfare To

Meet Monday

There will be a Child Wei:are m, ing Monday afernqpn at 1 o'. 1k

the city library.

total number of medals awarded in : the lighter weights; 130 to ^O, Dr Tyk , i . „ Bl . ()()ks wi „

three years to 71. won by 68 ditTer-j pounds .?K.li) to 4S.30; underweights,

. . .... , , I 1 ' ''' ’ " j,, I speak on “The Development of ent sires. In 1928 and 1929, medals | jg.25; heavier, $7.10 to *8; sows, $0 | ^ Idol .c

of sires which , to $6.75.

were given to owners

qualified even though the sires were dead; however, the 1930 awards were confined to living sires. In order to i qualify for a bronze medal as a Proved Sire, a bull must have six daughters, from five different dams, produce not less than 300 pounds of butterfat in a year; to be eligible for a siLor medal, the daughters must produce 400 pounds of butterfat; ii the six daughters produce BfiO pounds of butterfat, their sire qualifies for a gold medal. However ,nu Indiana bull has yet qualified for this

award.

On January I, there were 35 living proved sires in service, slightly more than half of the total number proved in the three years. Owners of the proved sires for 1930 are as follows: Holstein-Friesian -C. W. Newman. Culver; Frnin and Zellers, Winamac; silver. D. D. Schwartz, Berne; Fred Stutsman, Goshen; Byron I,egg. Windfall; Mungus & Folk, North Liberty; Lehman, Gorsueh, Hoover, Goshin; I. E. Hanning, Evansville; Goshen Bull Club, Goshen; bronze. Jersey—E. E. Hunter, Angola;

Cattle were unchanged; calves 50c lower, top $11.50. Sheep were steady; lambs $9

down.

Continuation D

the

ent Child.” Professors

Lucy Bowen, Moffett and Messersmith have spoken at previous meetings on the physical development. ,

Gross, g

Totals

... 6

Jefferson (18)

Young, f

... t

Wallace, f

... 4

La Plante, c

Coomo, g

... 2

Karty, g

... 0

1 J

.... o

MeCahn, c

Totals t

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ROCHESTER, Ind., Jan. In. 1*,, sence of mind of Harry 0>1 n, (hr. er of a Richland township mIi.m.I bus late Friday probably saved ;h, li<,. of twenty youngsters when the butwas struck in the rear by an autu driven by Frank Fergusan, ;il< twen-ty-two, Burlington. The accident m. curred seven miles north of here nn U. S. Road 31. Osborn was (leliveni,. pupils to their homes from the Rich-

land Center grade school.

Ferguson was one of sovcial drivers who were taking ears Imm ' npel svillc to Chicago. Os horn had -t

was mir-

now than a year ago." says Edmond |. | ()V( | County Jersey Bull Club; C. Foust, in charge of organization. | Claude Jones, Anderson; silver. T.

National W. C. T. U. To

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“V • A “breathing battery'* which stistains life by breathing oxygen from the air. Miss Marcella Shields, popular B. C. artist, is pointing to one of the eaibon electrode “lungs’* through which the hat* triy breathes. Pieture ut left shows one of the new air eell radio receivers which looks and operates like a modern alternating current get, free from the limitations of the old dry buttery receivers.

A new ami radically different kind of battery operated radio receiver, requiring no storage battery and free from the defects of the dry battery set, has-niade its apiearanee on the market for use

in unwired homes.

A number of the country’s lea ling radio manufacturera arc

In discarded and another one purchased. Operating cost Is actually cheaper than with the old type dry eell sets. , The new “air cell” sets—socalled because ot the "breathing" air cell battery It utilizes—are considered the final solution to the probbyn of satisfactory radio

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famlllet: in the country have not

the battery “breathe” that it will i rut a seven-tube set using the nev t w^i-volt tubes for well over a vear, based on an average dally

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yet purchased radio receivers because 1 eretoforo there has been no receiver which gave satisfac-

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Miss Bowen Vddrtsses Martha Ridpath P. T. A.

The Parent Teachers Association of the Martha Ridpath school met Friday afternoon in the school auditorium. Mrs. Lawrence Crump led the devotions. The pupils of the sec-

ond grade entertained with a musical! peti to discharge a pupil and program. They gave a demonstration | his custom looked into th< in reading which was enjoyed very . ror of his school bus before pcritting much. After the business session the pupil to alight. Osborn -e i , s Ii Miss Lucy Bowen of DePauw univer- looked he saw Ferguson a !m p sity gave a very interesting talk of 1 the wheel of his ear, which \va- headher trip abroad. Mrs. Me( ullough. j ed for the school bus. (Mson 'ailed room received tin banner for attend-: to the children to run lorwiird in tl: amv. The February meeting w ill be j school litis. They obeyed lie oi,.. a joint meeting of the Parent Teach- mand as the rear part of the bu- wa.-

eis Association from ail the schools, j demolished.

Ferguson was brought here, where he was (barged with attempting

'Be Subject At Meeting pass a school bus hile pup* wci Mrs. Morton Fordice ol Ritset llviile) discharged. He plead. I guih fdelegate to the National W. ('. T. i’. , !n d was ned $25 and cost- nount at Houston. Texas, will lie Hi* speak j ing to $40, which he paid. I c " '' e '' a ' ll “’ ' ,,e ‘ ,u "8 W. C. T. U. | said in court that he had b n .b. Monday afternoon in the Methodist | i ntf Cl)ntinuous i y for Uveb( h„u,. Cliiinli. She will talk on lhe conven- before the crash. The car whi.h F'er-

tlon. 1 .. ...

eusMn was driving was wreck' '