Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 28 July 1910 — Page 7

IN DEFENSE OF FL

1

Local Insurance Agent Sends Cons-

tic Letter to Company's Head­

quarters in the East.

LETTER IS CONSIDERED A GEM

Informs the Men Higher Up Just What

Kind of Fanners Live in Han­

cock County.

A prominent life insurance company which maintains an agency in this city, in following a policy along with other companies, of placing minor restrictions on farmers' wives' policies, recently asked of its agent in this city further particulars before completing the insurance on the life of a woman upon whose life a policy had been applied for through the local agency. The questions were printed and purport to guard against the proposition that men insure wives' lives after they contract a fatal ailment. The agent at once jumped to defense of Hancock county women in the following letter to headquarters: "Replying to yours of the 9t"n inst. would say that I shall attend to the matter of additional information at my convenience. But as I read your printed inquiries, the absurdity of the whole thing so impressed me that I laughed outright at the idea of any company casting aspersions on a 'farmer's wife and her husband' when I think of the great crimes that have been and are still being committed •against the people, by those high up in the social, religious, basiness and political spheres. "Besides, Indiana is no longer the

I would be pleiased to entertain |our Board on a summer outing in attr rural districts among our cultured farmers, and the rural queens, and open your eyes to the truth of the above, if you will agree to discard a bolt or two of red tape concerning the moral status of Indiana farmer^, and mistaken ideas about the queenly er's wife. "I will try, however, to secure the information you request as soon as jjiossible."

To

this

part as

'wild and woolywest,' as you seem qualified to succed Mr. Cooper, and is to think, but a vast realm of progress, refinement and education. The lines between the farm, and towns and cities are so loosely drawn, that even so discriminating a body as your honorable Medical board could not discover the boundary. Our farmers are not only nature's noblemen, but they grace the halls of legislation. They are up-to-date, having phones, daily rural mail at their doors. Country clubs, society events, Literary clubs. They have their beautiful homes, autos, all the latest improvements of all kind. Think of a farmer's wife hoeing corn, or deftly driving the rowels into the sides of a mustang as she dexteriously throws the lasso over the horns of a fleeing steer! The Indiana farmers attend the graduation of sons and daughters, and even assist them to eclipse the efforts of the most elite city dude and dudess. "The farmer's wife sleeps regularly and enjoys the sweet rest that integrity, virtue and health vouchsafe to her, not disturbed by the nightmare of remorse and fever of despair that haunts the devotee of city fashions. 'She lists to nature's teachings' and heeds the 'Still voice,' and as she enters the pew on Sunday morning, she beams with health, with joy and worship. "Her husband, bible in hand, reverently bows as he enters the sanctuary. Why,'my dea* medical board, don't you know that church attendance among the farmers of Indiana, their loyal affiliation with their church, so far outranks the cities that a comparison would be odious? Do you know the country churches are furnishing the largest adult Bible classes, contribute more to Foreign Missions as well as Home? Do you know that the wives hold markets in the cities, towns and villages throughout the land, and that the husbands haul the thousand and one articles in their autos and carriages to the place of sale all for "Sweet Charity" and the Church? That in the parades of the feathered Masons, the helmeted Knights of Pythias or the linked Oddfellows,or any prominent order, on the streets of our cities and towns that the farmer many times predominates? "If your honorable body should make a comparison of crime among Indiana farmers and the "City of Brotherly Love," what do you think Would be the result of the eomparion?

letter the Board replied in

follows:

"Your production is certainly a j^em, and will have a high place in the archives of this company. To

my knowledge Indiana's fair name has never been impugned and the spirited defense of its ardent partisan leads me to cry, 'Peccari!' I have no doubt about the desirability of farmers' wives as pictured by you, and we, I assure you, will hereafter know that your selection is sufficient to eliminate the undesirable element which has crept in, in the past, in certain sections."

This Is the Last Week That George H.

Cooper Will Be Officially Con­

nected With the Schools.

George H. Cooper will retire from

vice member of the school board. He has been on the board for several years and has given to it the same careful attention that he does to all business with which he is connected, a practice that has placed him in the front rank of Indiana's men of affairs. He has done his part in the many improvements that have been made in the schools during the last few years, and to him, perhaps more than any other one man, is due the credit for the splendid library building recently erected. True, the money was supplied by Mr. Carnegie, but it required influence and labor properly bestowed to secure these funds. The buiiding stands on the ground that was Mr. Cooper's childhood home, arid was given to the city by his mother. I

The new member is in every way

an experienced school man, having for many years been one of the city's most valued teachers, resigning to take up the practice of law.

PATENTSIEVICE FOR CARRYIII6 MAIL

Which Will Do Away With

All Carriers.

In this State is now being shown an automatic mail carrier operatad by electricity and designed as a substitute for both city and rural men. The inventor is L. E. R. Wescott, Hartford, Mich. The device is claimed by the inventor to drop and pick up letters, papers or packages of mail in the same way the mail would be destributed by a regular carrier, and its operation demonstrated the truth of the statement.

The device, which is of light metal, is propelled by a one-half horsepower dynamo. It travels on a steel track and works not unlike a trolly car, at. taining a high speed, at the same time accomplishing its work without accident. Mail is placed within the carrier and dropped to the receptacles of patrons without stopping. It picks up mail with equal ease, still maintaining a good speed.

A, II. RUMLER FUNERAL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

Death Also of a Baby Girl Monday

Night in Same Neighborhood

Near Fortville.

The funeral of A. V. Rumler was held in the Fortville U. B. church Wednesday afternoon at 1:30, conducted by the Rev. Marcellus Walker, and under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Repubilc. The interment was at Mt. Gilead. Mr. Rumler was 72 years of age.

Hilda, baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kingery, who live just across the road from the Rumler home, died Monday night. The burial at Maple G,ove, near Eden, Wednesday morning. Oak S. Morrison, of this city, is the undertaker in charge of both of these funerals.

Mrs. R. D. Hays and little daughters, Mary Elizabeth, and Julia, will go to Brownstown Friday for an extended visit with relatives.

Mrs. Bertha Justice Bragg will leave Friday for her home in Topeka, Kans., after an extended visit here with her mother, Mrs. Emma Justice.

WHEAT LOSES OUT

the city school board on the last day growing in the county as was grown of this month, and Hiram L. Thomas, I thirty years ago. who has been elected his sttccessor by There was a time when wheat the city council, will take the office shared about with corn among farmduring the coming week, when the ers, but it is different now. Corn board will re-organize. The law re- completely shadows all other crops. x- The same man states that he rememquires that this shall oe done oy tne

Local Man Says That Corn Is Fast Be­

coming the Predominant Crop in

This County.

"Corn," said a local dealer, "has left wheat far behind this year. At least the sale of farm machinery I shows this to be a fact. I doubt whether more than a dozen binders have been sold this season in all

Hancock county. This same man, who has had occasion to keep close watch on the wheat crops in the country for more than a quarter of a century, gave it as his opinion that not more than twentyfive per cent as much wheat is now

one

5th of August. 100 binders. It is not because the Mr. Cooper has been of great ser-1 price is high now, for it is not. The to the city of Greenfield as a

in Every Respect.

The oats being doAvn this year enabled Clark's LTpright binder to demonstrate its superiority over other machines. It has been thoroughly tested with the most satisfactory results.

The binder was taken into an oat field that will yield 75 bushels to the acre. They were lying just as flat as oats can lie. The machine cut the oats, separated the straight straws from the tangled and brought them all in to the packers and the needle where the bundle was bound and tied into a straight and perfects sheaf which could be shocked in the very best condition. The machine was I used in this kind of oats for two and a half days without any difficult.

Automatic Machine Has Been Invented machine3 sa'ys^hat It wilfcrt? down

grain in three ways. It will cut such oats when other machines utterly fail, to tfike care of them.

Society Events.

Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Boner, of Willow, gave a party Saturday evening, July 23, from four to seven, in honor of their son, Cloyd's 13th birthday anniversary. Music and games were enjoyed after which refreshments of ice cream and bonbons were served. Cloyd received many beautiful presents, including 116 beautiful post cards. The invited guests were Oris Hittle, Raymond Thomas, Retha Thomas, Leone Bussel, Florence Mar taindale, Leland Wallace, Hasseltine Wallace, Earl Wilson, June Martindale, Basasscus Thomas. James Sitton, Carl Grunden, Mary Sitton, Ruth Sitton, Russell Parker, Harold Parker, George Tuterow, Ura Vanduyn, Eva Fort, Opal .Vanduyn, Floyed West. Lawrence Vanduyn, Elmer Daily, Forest Vanduyn, Zelma Daily, Luella Vanduyn, Luella Huckleberry, Merl Vanduyn, Harry Huckleberry, Ernest Vanduyn, Jessie Webb, Fannie Thompson, Pearl Webb, Orel Parker, Anna Thompson, Ethel Hittle, Jennie Apple, Vera Fort, Lial Bussel, Avery Bussel, Rose Clark, Lunday Welborn, Ruth Record, Vivian Welborn, Nomia Record, Ethel Thompson. Mrs. Boner was assisted in entertaining the y'oun people by Miss Blanch Harlan an Mrs. Maud Plumer.

Miss Grace Brandenburg celebrated her seventeenth birthday, Sunday afternoon by entertaining about twenty-five of her girl friends at a fried chicken supper. The Greenfield band was invited and favored the company with several of their selections. Miss Grace was presented with a handsome silk umbrella as a token of the occasion. Those present were, Lila Jones, Pearl Huston, Lillian Moran, Marie Justice, Opal Parker, Nora Stanley, Louise Johnson, Kate Boots. Josephine McGuire, Gladys Teel, Anna Laura Hafner, Mabel and Maudie Toles, Bessie Bidgood, Naomi Tapscott, Naomi and Leone Kinder, of Willow Branch, Mrs. Jessie White and John Brandenburg.

Mr.

and Mrs. J. M. Hufford entertained at six o'clock dinner Tuesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Sheppard, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hufford, of Cumberland, and John Retmire and family, of Richmond.

GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1910.

IN6 GAME

year jn -which one firm sold

cause of tbe

dropping off

in the bind­

er sales is the less acreage of wheat. It is not the important crop of Hancock county that it once was.

E

The Clark's Upright Binder Has Been

Thoroughly Tested and Made Good

BIG AUDIENCE HEARS SPEAKER

Anti-Saloon League Holds Enthusias­

tic Service at the United

Brethren Church.

The United Brethren church was crowded Sunday evening to hear the Rev. Mr. Shumaker, president of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, who spoke entertainingly on the work of the League. He said good progress was being made along all lines and that no effort will be spared to keep the county option law on the statute books. He gave figures to prove the financial benefit of the law to the homes of the country.

Mr. Shumaker is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church and belonged to the North Indiana conference when he was assigned by Bisop Joyce to this work.

J. Ward Walker, Republican candidate for representative, was present and was called upon.

Mr. Walker said he was not going to make a speach, but "I say that I am in accord with all the speaker has said. I am in favor of thecounty option law."

JUST A LITTLE

OF

Charley Williams of Morristown Tries

to Operate His New Automobile

With Disastrous Results.

The experience of Charles T. Williams, of Morristown, in one of his lessons in operating an automobile, will cost about $100. Williams purchased anew machine last week and yesterday evening he was being taught how to drive the automobile by the man who had made the sale. They were out in the country, west of town, at the time. As they approached across road, Williams thought he would go straight ahead, but the second thought is the one that caused all of the trouble. As he reached the road he decided to turn, but his decision was not made quick enough to avoid trouble. In making the turn he ran the machine down the side of the road and into a fence. He broke one of the lamps, smashed the front end of the machine, bent an axle and otherwise injuring the benzine wagon. The damage done will amount to at least $100.

Wants His Paper.

The following letter was received this morning from Reuben L. Barnard who was formerly in business in this city but who is now with the Mt. Adams Lumber Co., at White Salmon, Washington: "Greenfield Republican,

Greenfield, Indiana,

Dear Mr. Spencer:— We have not received the last three issues of that valuable paper of yours and thereby damaged to the extent of three weeks news which is a very considerable sum when a fellow is 3000 miles from home. Please look this matter up at once and forward the papers with damages attached at once. Mail to our address at "White Salmon, Washington" the town of all towns situated on the Columbia River bluff just opposite big Oregon Apple "Hood River" and is also the place where you have a nice cool breeze all day in July and August and sleep under a blanket and comforter at night. We are all well, hearty and happy for it is now berry time and has been for some time.

Trusting we will receive our papers promptly and regulary as usual hereafter we remain Yours Truly,

Reuben L. Barnard.

Green Apple Season Here. Since the apple season has opened the youngsters are all busy climbing trees and loading their pockets with half-ripe fruit. More care should be given to children about this time of the year of symptoms of cholera morbus are reported at different homes over the city. In most cases the patient is a child who has been loading his stomach with green fruit of the orchard for the past few weeks. One or two apples with plenty of salt are not very dangerous, but when a child eats a quantity of green fruit something is sure to result and in most cases a hurried call is sent for the family physician. &

Pastor Has Returned Home. After remaining away from his family and church congregation for eight weeks, Rev. S. M. Hawthorne, pastor of the Christian church at Gwynneville, who paysteriously disappeared about eight weeks ago, returned to his home at that place early this morning. His return created

almost as great a sensation in the town and surrounding community as was caused by his sudden disappearance. Since leaving home Rev. Hawthorne has been located near Carlisle, Minnesota, where he has been employed on a farm. For the past weeks he has been in close corI respondence with his wife and she and a few others were aAvare of his contemplated return.

THE FAR SOUTH

Cold Weather Got the Northern Vari­

ety but tbe South is Well

Supplied.

Receipts of peaches from the orchards of Tennessee and Georgia by local merchants this week will total several hundred bushels. They are of the very choicest variety and are finding a ready market.

Every fast train from the sunny South is made up of several cars con-

taining baskets of the luscious fruit. Indications are there will be ho need to wait for Michigan peaches this year especially inasmuch as reports from the peninsular state say the crop will be far short if not an entire failure. The cold spring weather,

&

peach orchards. The current week and the next two will mark the height of the season, so far as the southern crop is concerned. It is expected that the home grown varieties will be as large as the prospects are unusually good, but these never are depended upon for the trade.

The market now is being supplied with exceptionally fine fruit. Geor-! gia and Tennessee are the states furnishing practically the entire supply. The fruit is large and solid, just the kind for canning purposes. The prices are about the same as usual, except when the Michigan yield is exceptionally large. No great reduction in price is to be looked for and the quality will not be so good later on.

OF

Greenfield Man Whose Home and Farm

Was in Path of the Noted

Gorilla Chief.

A short story in this paper of Morgan's raid was read with special interest by James A. Reynolds, who lives on Broadway, this city, for his home back in the sixties was in southern Indiana and he has personal recollections and experiences of Morgan's invasion of the NoHh not possessed by the average citizen.

It was known that Morgan's plan was to lay waste everything in his path and the people naturally were in a state of panic and fear. Mr. Reynold's farm was in the gorilla's route and he has acute recollections of the noted chief who passed near his farm. The Home Guards who went the same way in pursuit of Morgan are membered with more pleasing recollections than the visit of the marauders.

WITH THE RUCKS

Company That Made War Against

Samuel Gompers and Others

Gives Up Fight.

Union Labor has won the capitulation of the Buck Stove and Range Company, which fought Mitchell, Gompers, and others through the highest courts. It come to be that it was like flying a red flag at a bull to mention Buck's stoves to a member of a union. The company is sending notices to newspapers saying that it has been reorganized and will be conducted hereafter in harmony with organized labor. The statement of the agreement is signed by Samuel Gompers, president of the Federation of Labor.

The Center of Population. In 1900 the center of population of the United States was in Bartholomew county, about six miles southeast of Columbus, the county seat of that county. This year it is Semiofficially Announced, the center of population will not be more than a mile from the point fixed in 1900 and thatPft will be land banging J&f a cousin of the owner of the land on which the center of 1900 was fixed.

ONLY LIVE III THE mm

'Cooking for Threshers" Formerly

Common Expression Is Seldom

Heard Nowadays.

THRESHING NOW ON IN COUNTY

Yield Runs Along From Fifteen to

Twenty-Four Bushels to

the Acre.

Wheat threshing is beginning in earnest all over Hancock county. But what a difference it is to the way the work was done a few years ago. The great "threshing dinners" are numbered with the past and the housewives, instead of having the hardest of labor, now have little to do but

I watch the work go on, I to draw the cash when the

and be ready grain goes

I to market. Threshing is done by I clubs of farmers nowadays, and nearly always each man takes his dinner from home. It used to be, before the days of the starw-stacker, clubs and other innovations, that the farmer's

hard freezes and following thaws did, .e wife prepared meals tor from twentyimmense damage to the northern,

five to one hundred persons. Not

pers

only the men doing the work had to be provided for, but even children of their families had their little feet under the tables, and it, too, was a favorite occasion for visitors. And the dinner that was served in those days! It is one of the delightful memories tha} fadeth not away.

The labor of threshing is nothing to it was. "The "tail end of the machine" does not have the terrors it possessed when the man with goggles and handkerchief over his mouth, standing waist deep in chaff, kept the straw from the end of the machine, and passed it back to other men, and they finally to the "stacker," always an expert in the community. But why dwell on the things gone by. "Let the dead past bury its dead."

The earliest ones to begin that has been heard from is the south portion of the county, they beginning at one place Wednesday, and yesterday there were three machines running south and west.

The grade varies, it seems, running from 50 to 60 pounds to the bushel, but the greater part of it is grading number two and weighing about 58.

Greenfield elevators and mills are taking in some wheat today and expect it to begin coming in the early part of the week very rapidly should favorable weather continue, and all report the conditions very good, it being better than was anticipated.

It seems that all or nearly all of the wheat that is being threshed is south, west and east of this city, there being no reports coming in from the north part of the county that they are treshing.

When next week has gone by, with weather conditions favorable, it is believed that there will be very little wheat left standing in the shock in this county, as there are a large number of machines, all being the very best and latest improved and in a short time they can thresh out the ordinary sized crop.

It is now believed by many of the farmers that the yield will be much better than was at first thought, this being a. very pleasant surprise.

AUTO RACES ON CARD.

Newcastle Fair Association Will Hold Five-Day Meet.

One of the best race programs ever provided lor a county fair in Newcastle has been provided for the annual fair, which will be held August 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. The premium list for the fair is now being distributed and Secretary Risk is busy getting horses for the annual exhibit here. The fair this year will occupy five days, instead of four, as formerly, and there will be an innovation on tbe last day in the way of an automobile meet.

The entire last day will be given to automobile races and event® and special attention will be given to the care of autoists. The program of races for the fair is as follows:

Wednesday, August 10—Three-year-old trot" stake, closed, purse $S00 2:25 pace, purse $250 road horse, onehalf mile, purse $30 one.half mile run and repeat, purse $60.

Thursday, August al—2:25 trot stake closed, purse $500 free-for-all pace, purse $300 2 16 trot, purse $250 three-year-old pace stake, closed,, purse $300.

Friday,

August 12—2:30 trot, purse

$260 4:24 pace stake, closed, purse $500 3:17 pace, purse $250 fiveeights mile run, purse, $80.

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