Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 5 January 1911 — Page 2

Retiring Coroner, J. L. Allen Has Held

€1 Inquests—No Unidentified

Bodies—Two Murders.

The record of Joseph L. Allen, the retiring county coronor, for the past four years, is an unasual one in many ways, as will be seen upon reading the following facts.

Total number inquests held in four -years 61, White, 60 colored, 1. Adults, 51 youths, 3 children, 7.

Males, 51 females, 10. CAUSES OF DEATH. Natural Causes, 21, as follows:— Heart disease, 8 apoplexy, 5 tuberculosis, 2 pneumonia, 1 syphilis, 1 epilepsy, 1 eczema, 1 alcholism, 1 prematurity, 1.

Accidental Causes, 25, as follows.— Electric Interurban cars, 7 steam railway, 7 burned, 3 poisoned, 2 automobile, 1 shot, 1 lightening, 1 dynamite, 1 machinery,! asphyxia, 1.

Suicides, 12, as followsShooting 4 carbolic acid, 3 arsenic, 1 phosphous, 1 drowning, 1 hanging, 1 steam railway, 1

Murders, 2, Both by shooting. Unknown means, 1. In the four years, with 61 inquests, there has never been an unidentified although one was found after laying out in the field for months. Of the murders, one is serving a life term and one, Hicks of Shirley,' has not been apprehended.

Praises The Mayor.

Again we say flowers for the mayor. We saw an article in Thursdays paper stating that Mayor Myers had refused to allow the Firemen's banquet to be held in the city hall on account of them serving beer and wine in the building.

We are glad to see the mayor standing up for the right. He is casting not only his influence but using his power against the wrong.

If we had such men in our Legislative Halls and all other places of power, we might hope some day to wipe out the liquor traffic entirely but just so long as men who are in power fail to do their duty perhaps not so much because of a lack of right principals as the fear of loosing popularity and the gain of a few dollars they are willing to throw their influence on the side of wrong and see their fellowmen, not only men but boys who are the hope of our country daily following the footsteps of older ones, being'dragged down to ruin.

What else can we expect when they see at such festivities, wine and beer used by men who hold themselves up as exemplary men perhaps some of them church members, setting such examples for others to follow but the boys would not dare drink it in such places, or they would be found out and the mayor have them arrested. Might they not say we stole it out from the fireman's banquet. What then? We say away with such examples. If' men can't see that such things are wrong, the officers should help them to see it especially when it lays within their power to do so. Begin with the man and

then expect something better of the coming boys. Some way this reminds me of a mother who follows playing cards in the home. Perhaps years afterwards when her boy becomes a gambler she wonders why he was reckless, why he causes her so much care and anxiety, forgetting that it was she, herself, who set the example for him to follow and he went only a few steps farther than his mother.

Sometimes father and mother may set the best examples for their children and then they may go wrong but let us not boldly set for them bad examples. An Opponent of Wrong

WHS NOT THE WHO IS KNOWN HERE

A dispatch from Franklin, Indiana, to the Indianapolis Star Monday, in which it stated that George Mitchell, of that city, shot his wife and then turned tha revolver on himself inflicting fatal wounds, caused considerable anxiety here until it was learned that it was not the George Mitchell so well known here and who has many relatives here. The similarity of names and number in family, etc., caused the mistaken impression to be conveyed in this city. The George Mitchell known here lives at Indian,apolis and is in very poor health.

Jesse Everson and family, of Indianapolis, and Benjamin Everson \and family, of Vincennes, took New 'ear's dinner with their parents, and Mrs. Joseph Everson, of this

ARREST OF WALSH EL

Greenfield Boy Held as Suspect

Rushville on New Palestine

Robbery, Was Released

WILD, BUT NOT CRIMINAL

Greenfield People Would Sure be

Able to Give Good Account of

Himself and Come Clear.

Greenfield people, generally, felt that the arrest of Lawrence E. Walsh at Rushville Friday night, was a mistake on the part of the officers, although they were acting upon what they considered sufficient information to hold him as a suspect in the New Palestine bank robbery of Thursday night.

Mr. Walsh is a son of Mr. and Mrs. David Walsh, of this city, and air though he may have been considered on the wild order, he was not a criminal or inclined that way. He is a telegraph operator and has been employed at Brooklyn for three years.

A special from Rushville to the Indianapolis Star says Walsh was identified by an I. & C. conductor as one of the men who left his car at New Palestine late Thursday night. Walsh asserted that he had nothing to do with the robbery and more than that was never in New Palestine. He stoutly affirmed that he stayed in Indianapolis with a frieud all Thursday night. The police searched him and found $24.20, mostly bills. He said that he went to Rushville to attend a dance with a young woman of that town. He had several post cards in his pocket, one addressed to L. E Walsh from the young woman whom he mentioned, on which arrangements were made to attend the dance together.

Mr. Walsh's story, apart of which at least, was known here to be true, was investigated Saturday morning and was corroborated by the evidence at hand and ~he was freed, having proved an alibi.

HOLIDAYS FOR THE YEAR 1911

Calendar Shows There Are Many of

Them—August Has

None.

A 1911 calendar just out, which has all the holidays marked, both religious and secular, patriotic and popular, reveals the rather remarkable fact that there is only one month in the year without a holiday of importance. Some have as many as five that are remembered in some part or parts of the country. August is the month that has no holiday. It happens, however, that this is a favorite summer vacation month which tends to equalize things.

The longest unbroken stretch in the year is from July 4 to September 4, which is Labor day. January has three including R. E. Lee's and McKinley's birthdays February has four, counting the ground hog day March recognizes Ash Wednesday and St. Patrick's day April has five, mostly church holidays May has Mothers' day, Peace day and Memorial day June recognizes Flag day and the first day of summer September has Labor day and the Jewish New Year October has Yom Kippur, Discovery day and Hallowe'en November has election day and Thanksgiving and December closes with the one and biggest day of the year.

GOUHTOnB APPOINTED LATER

The county commissioners will not make the appointment of county attorney at the regular meeting but have postponed the appointment until commissioners W. T. Spell returns' from Massachusetts where he was called by the illness of a brother-in-law. He expects to be home for the special meeting January 14th. There are several attorneys who, it is understood would accept the appointment which pays $300 annually and does not acquire a great amount of time.

Misses Ruth and Merrill Rhoades have returned to their home in Shelbyville after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Real.

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GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, T1

DISTRIGT

FARMERS 10 MEET

Two Thousand Expected to Attend

Short Course and Corn School at

Richmond Feb. 6 to 11.

The Sixth district short course corn school to be held in Richmond Feb. 6 to 11, will be under the direction of the agricultural department of Purdue University. Financial backing to the undertaking has been given by the Young Men's Business Club of Richmond, and at a meeting held recently, the program was decided on. Among the instructors that Professor Christie, of Purdue, will have with him are D,»0. Thompson, Otis Crane, G. M. Frfer, M. W. Richards, D. B. Johnson, F. G. King, F. H. Hillman, J. B. Abbott, G. L. Richards, Miss Grace Woodard and Miss Gertrude McCheyne,

Preparations are being made to care for more than two thousand farmers during the corn school week. The coliseum has been selected as the place for the lectures because of its large seating capacity- Several other buildidgs are to be used for stock judging and for the displays of corn and other products. Domestic science is to come in for a share of attention, and Richmond club women are to assist in this work for the benefit of the farmers' wives. The program for the domestic science is to be especially attractive.

In addition to the topics that will haye special interest to the corn producers, the program for the institute proper embraces a varied lot of farm subject, and the "students" who attend will find that no matter what branch of agriculture they are especially interested in, the program will cover it.

PRETTY BABY BOY AS XMAS GIFT

Fine Year Old Boy Baby Left on Door

Step of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lang-

ley at Minneapolis.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Langley, of Minneapolis, Minn., and well known in this city and county where they have many relatives and friends, Mrs. Langley being a granddaughter of Henry B. Wilson and a niece of Mrs. J. H. Moulden, received an unexpected Christmas present in the form of a year old boy baby left on their door steo.

Mr. Langley heard a knock at the rear door of his home and opening the door, saw no one. He thought it was a joke by some friend until he discovered a* bundle on the steps. With the assistance of his wife the bundle was taken into the home and proved to contain a healthy and pretty, expensively dressed boy baby.

In the bundle was the following letter: "Will you please take the baby boy into your home and care for him? He is of American parentage and was 1 year old Nov. 30. We have kept him as long as we could and give him up now only because we know that it will be better for him. We have heard what you have done for your little girl and know that it will not be possible for us to do for him what you have done for her and what we hope you will do for him. "Hard though it is to give him up, we feel that we would rather put him in a home like yours than to place him in any institution. You need not try to discover his parentage. They do not wish to be known nor will they ever trouble you in regard to their baby. God bless him and you and help you to do for him what we could not do. "Kind friends furnished these clothes for him thinking that it would make him more attractive to you."

The letter was not signed and finished abruptly. Mr. Langley said that a man was seen standing in front of his home for 15 minutes prior to the finding of the child. There is a church on one side of the Langley home and an alley on the other side, and the parties leaving the baby had ample time to hide themselves before the knock was answered.

Mr. Langley writes that he would dislike very much to give up the baby now as the entire family have become very much attached to it. So it seems the baby has found a happy home, although he entered the same without an invitation.,

Walter Cox and wife, of Monroe, Mich., who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Cox, returned Sunday.

AY, JANUARY

JAIWRY WEATHER AS

Out Look foil Furst Month of Year Is

Not Very\ Pheasant To Contem

plate—Syov^s and Blizzards.

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Here is what Kiev. Hicks, in forecasts, serveo up for January: A regular storm period is indicated for the 2nd to the 'Jtb. January will open cold and fair in western and central states, witli low barometer and winter storms disappearing in eastern extremes. E'y the 4th, higher temperature, falling barometer and gathering storms Willi appear to the westward. Durin^bhte 4th to the 7th rain and snow willwsvt most parts of the country, passii\g from west to east. Electrical mamfe^tations to the southward will culiniinate on and touching the 7th, after which, high barometer, attended bW fair and much colder weather, will pwevail generally for three or four days

A reactionary storiii period will •bring change to warmeil weather, attended by falling barometer, cloudiness, rain and snow, passing eastward during the 10th, 11th anjj^l2£h.

A reactionary storm pe )d will result in falling barometer, sing thermometer, cloudiness, rain id snow, on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th.

A regular storm period b. ads with the mercury disturbances om the 25th to the 30th. This peric is central on the i7th. It will culn. late on the 27th to the 30th in fierce ?torms of rain, snow and sleet, amou. ing to blizzards north and west, and wringing in a general cold wave th will reach far into the south as pass from January into February. .is is one of those mercury "sleet god periods that will give us a maximui fall of the barometer, sleet and st ms that will destroy shrubbery and *es and open the gates of the norths for blizzards and cola wave.

Would Take Practically All the Money

in Circulation to Buy the 1910

Crop at $1.00 a Bushel.

(Munsey's Magazine.)

Such was the magnitude of the crop of corn raised by Joseph in Egypt, in the time of Pharaoh, that it was thought worthy of record in the Bible. We cannot tell accurately, as by measurement reduced to American bushels, what this harvest of Egyptian grain was. All that we know is that it was of such amplitude as to amaze the rulers of Egypt, and make the country the commercial master of the ancient world.

Yet it was undoubtedly much smaller than the harvest of Indiana corn, or maize, which the American farmers secured in the early autumn of 1910. That is estimated, in round numbers, at 3,121,000,000 bushels. Curioaly enough, the number of bushels of Indian corn harvested by the farmers of America is approximately equivalent to the number of dollars in actual circulation throughout the United States. That is to say, if it were necessary to buy outright the corn crop of last autumn, and to pay for it in cash at the rate of one dollar a bushel, then, in order to do this, there would be needed every dollar of money now in circulation.

ALL OF US TIME TO HOLY GRAIL

Dr. Perry E. Powell, Formerly Pastor

of M. E. Church Here, Has Or

ganized 500 Castles.

New Castle Courier—Dr. Perry E. Powell, of Tipton, spent Wednesday with his parents, Martin L. Powell and wife, on the Ridge. Dr. Powell retired from the Methodist ministry some time ago and is now devoting his time and energies to the institution of castles of the Holy Grail, a religious order for boys of all churches. He has had wonderful success, both in the East and West, and there are now over 500 castles, and* his work has been approved and applauded by high church officials all over the United States.

Dr. Powell is resting this week and took advantage of a few days at home to run down and visit his New Castle relatives.

World Revolves

The holiday season has passed. The "trees" were loaded with gifts. The mails were glutted. Now the carriers are burdened with returns of the "compliments." Employers gave turkeys, boxes of cigars and candy, and other tokens, to their employes. Some gave with their left hand while their right hand knew it not—giving for charity. These belong to a class that may be counted, perhaps, on the fingers—alas! they are too few. Some give because they think that their gifts, though stale bread cast upon the waters, may come back aftei not too many days. Others give like the farmer gives seed to the soil, expecting a harvest by the next post. Others give like the weasel that sucks the whole yolk out of the egg of golden opportunity. But again—the black surfacf by contrast makes brighter the pictures of happiness brought by "Merry Christmas" to the fireside, the churches, the homes, and even to the pocr house—out on the farm, just over the hill.

At this season one must be entirely wanting in sentiment who does not look back over the old year with regret and forward into the new with hope for higher and better things. Of course we all joke about New Year's resolutions and their uselessness but there are few of ns who do not really desire—and even intend—to make the new year beiter than the one just closed. Tbere are few who do not wish to be stronger, kinder and more helpful. But to wish is not enough. The Chinese have a saying something like this: "Great souls have wills small ones, feeble wishes." It is a law of the mind that emotions, impulses, sentiments that find no outlet in action tend to grow weaker. If you feel an impulse toward good act upon it and it will be strengthened. If an evil impulse assails you repress it and it is weakened by just so much. This isn't preaching it is just plain ordinary common sense, though you may prefer to call it psychology. But— anyhow it is good to look ourselves over and see if we measure up to our notion of what we ought to be and might be. If it be true, as has been said, that every day is a new beginning the day which ushers in a new year is anew beginning in a large and inspiring sense.

After all, there is a sadness that omes with the passing of the old a^r, with its memories of difficulties

puntered, but not surmounted, of 9 undertaken but left unfinished, a & the severance of many precious ti This sadness, however, is somewl^ dissipated in the anticipations foi t^'e new year which rest in thought of ^jre accomplishments and ulti°^reunion. Father Time marks years with regularity and precisic and they soon measure into the c'-®buries and millenniums, and we ai taggerei in our attempts to comp ^iend the operation and prevent crSelves becoming more fatalists. I faith of our mothers, that Godis\\d, and that He doeth all things F^U, is our final comfort, making life V^orth while. The world of change r\ves on and as a part of it we each\ lfill His destiny according to a planwe do not fully understand.

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But be .Pit as it may, "writing up" Brown coile-,y is a harmless amusement. It yo as harmless as shooting up a town in the old days of the Western bi\°men. However, few of the peopleVVho write about Brown county knor any thing about it. Reporters from^istant cities are sent to Brown count*, to get material for a story. But p'yple of that county are no different tvm others. They are good neighbor and good citizens. They spank, tieir children, till the soil, attend pra.er meeting and vote the domocratic icket, to judge from the election retvns. By and by they move away and ocate elsewhere because the census turns show a loss of 2000 over 10 yers ago.

A New Yer Dinner.

Sunday there wnre several people gathered at Mrs. Jo Milner's in East Greenfield, they fere Mrs. Floyd Maynard and baby, Mrs. Mont Ball and childrep, Mrs. Clarence Milner and children Arthur lilner and wife. They all had a good tme. Refreshments of apples, cand, and popcorn were served in the aftenoon.

Dissolution of Patnership The partnership of Pauley & Burnside, auctioneers, has ben dissolved by mutual agreement. Mr. Pauley makes the following statment: The utmost good feeling exits between Mr. Burnside and myself, but thinking that there was not enogh in the sale business to divide, I hye made up my mind to attend to aLthe business that the people call upn me to do, myself, but I will not tlnk hard of inyone who employes M. Burnsides. Wm. H. huley.

Mr. and Mrs. Emery Dtan and IJazel Pauley, of Indian apoli, were iuests Saturday evening of Tr. and (Mrs. Ed W. Jaoobs.^v

FATHER KICKS.

I'm a packhorse, that's what I am! I'm a human checkbook.

A parcel delivery and a Necessary evil. They take me along to pay the bills

And carry things home. Anything From a piano to a featherbed, A package of pins or A peanut. They load on my shoulders, stuff in my pocket

And stick in my hand and They say to the clerk, smilingly, "Mr. Smith will give you a check

I'm Mr. Smith! Yep! I'm the human mint the perambulating mine!

I'm the fellow that has to Blow the whistle in the morning.

I get 30 cents a day for lunch, And my wife keeps a handbook, because

She's afraid I'd lose it but She lets me sign the cheeks Because she says it looks more business like for

The man to spend the money! They all let me spend the money,

My wife, my daughters, my sons, My relations and my landlord are all

Unanimous. They agree perfectly that I shall

Spend the money! There's no chance of a disagreement on that.

Nixey! I'm the checkbook, the mint, the mine-

I'm the packhorse I'm the getter I'm the bringer! Anything that's too big for the furniture van

My wife says: "Here, John, you carry it." My name's John—John Smith —Mr. Smith.

Baltimore Sun.

Resolutions of Respect.

To the Comrades of Samuel Dunbar Post, Grand Army of the Republic, We, your committee appointed to draft and publish resolutions on the death of Comrade William R. Jonesy beg to submit the following:

Whereas, Our comrade William R. Jones, enlisted in the 19th Indiana Battery at Knightstown in May 1862 and served his country with distinction and honor to the close of the war, first as corporal and later as sergeant of his company, and,

Whereas, He was in the Atlantic campaign and was a brave and efficient soldier and officer in the service of his country and t'ellowmen, in the great struggle to free the country from the bonds of slavery and save the Union intact, and

Whereas, Our Comrade, William R. Jones has been called from the battle-field of life by the great commander of all therefore be it,

Resolved, That Samuel Dunbar' Post, Grand Army of the Republic has lost a faithful member and one who was always ready and willing**to perform any service necessary for the relief or for the benefit of a comrade, either in or out of the Post room, and who always performed his dutiesjwell as a member, and be it further

Resolved, That our sympathies as, a Post and iudividually be and hereby are extended to the widow, chilkren and friends of our deceased comrade and be it further,

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread of record in the Post room, a copy sent to the widow and a copy given to each of the papers of the city for publication.

Respectfully Submitted, rr,m Henry Winslow,

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Z. J. Morford.

Mr. and Mrs, W. W. Rigdon, of thia city and Miss Lizzie Nichols, of Union county spent New Years Day with Mrs. Rigdon's mother, Mrs. Mary Showalter, of Morristown. Mrs. Showalter who is 82 years old presented Mrs. Rigdon with a quilt the log cabin variety which she made 55 years ago and which has been kept in first class condition all these years.

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Mack and |Miss Isabella Winfield, of Chicago, haye returned to their home after a few days visit with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bridges. $

Elmer Willett and wife, of Indian- -f apolis, and Edwin Martin and wife, of Curry's Chapel, were guests at dinner Saturday of Mr. and Mrs. M. & T. Willett.

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Mrs. Pearl E. Tyner, who recently returned trom an extended visit throughout the far West, has not seqn it rain but twice within a whole year. She welcomed the rain a few daysi ago, and is thoroughly enjoying &, the, genuine Indiana winter. k}l -v,.v f?%f. ...