Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 28 September 1911 — Page 2

A LITTLE GIRL DIES SUNDAY GREAT My FOR THE FRIENDS

MARY FRAZIER, 8 YEARS OLD, RECEIVED FULL CHARGE OF SHOT-GUN IN HANDS OF lO-YEAR-OLD BROTHER

FATAL ACCIDENT SUNDAY

Home of George Frazier, in Blue River Township, Made Sad By Instant Death of Laughing Child—

Accident Occurred at the Noon Hour—Screamed Once and Died.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. George Prazier, of Blue River township, was thrown into the darkest gloom at noon Sunday, when the life of their little 8 year old twin daughter, Mary, was snuffed out in a moment, as her little brother, Jesse, 40 years old, pointed a shot gun at her and pulled the trigger.

There was no warning to the parents of the fatal accident until the Teport of the gun and scream of the little victim were heard simultaneously and a minute later the little life was gone.

While the mother was in the kitchen preparing the noon-day meal, and the father was asleep on a couch, their children, Mary and Margaret, 8 year old twins, Jesse, age 10, and the youngest daughter, Lena, 6 years old, were in the dining room.

The three little girls had climbed up to the table, but the boy went to a closet and found a double-bar-reled shot gun. Bringing it into the room where the other children were at the table, it was discharged full at his sister, Mary, the charge of shot striking her in the left Illiac region and lodging in the hip bone. Dr. Sisson was called and iirrived in ten minutJes, but she had died almost instantly. She screamed "Mama!" simultaneously with the report of the fatal shot.

There seemed to be two versions, in the confusion and excitement, as to just how the shot came to be lired. The little boy, it is said, claims the gun, which was heavy, fell from his hands and struck the floor, with the muzzle pointing toward his sister. The twin sister of the victim seemed to think her brother pointed the gun, thinking it was not loaded, and pulled the trigger on the empty barrel, as she said he shot Mary once and it did not hurt her. Then he pulled the trigger of the barrel containing the fatal charge. It is but natural that children or even grown people would not see and agree as to just how an accident occurred, but the fatal result was sure.

The coroner, Dr. Earl R. Gibbs, being out of the city, his deputy, Dr. J. L. Allen, took charge of the case. Mr. Frazier and family live on the Lewis Rule farm in Blue River township, and both Mr. and Mrs. Frazier have grown children by former marriages.

The boy's story to the coroner of the shooting was that he went into the closet to get a ball and that the gun fell, striking the hammer. Funeral Tuesday at 10 O'clock at the house. Interment at Westland cemetery.

American Magazine For October. The American Magazine for October publishes the first instalment of the autobiography of Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin. It deals with the early life and first political struggles of one of the greatest fighting liberals of this generation. It is crammed with adventures and vivid with intimate pictures of the great men.

Fiction, in the October American, is headed by announcement of H. G. Wells' new serial novel, "Marriage" which begins in the November number. Mr. Wells stands at the head of contemporary novelists and students of the age, and "Marriage" is a startling analysis of matrimony by the one man who realizes its relation to modern society.

In this number is also a dramatic newspaper story by Donal Hamilton Haines a new and powerful tale of a girl who couldn't get work, by Edna Ferber one of James Oppenheim's mpst vivid stories, and a fascinating contribution to W. J. Locke's adventures of "Aristide Pujol." "Kin" Hubbard and "Ed" Howe, perhaps the best characteristically American humorists now living, also contribute to the number.

Hugh S. Fullerton, the great base ball expert, contributes "The Right and Wrong of Baseball," which, besides explaining the ethics of the national game, is a valuable treatise on sportsmanship in general.

In Yearly Meeting at Richmond— Splendid Sermons By Prof. Russell and the Rev. Daisy Barr.

The Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends at Richmond Sunday drew great crowds from all over the state and also from other states. At the church Sunday morning the two main sermons were by Prof. Elbert Russell, of Earlham, and Rev. Daisy Barr, of Muncie. Both dealt with modern social conditions in their discourses.

Prof. Russell took as his text a quotation from Prof. Hauschenbusch, the eminent student of social economy, as follows: "The Worst Sins in Modern Society are Those it Commits With a Perfectly Good Conscience." The discrimination against the negro, which keeps him from certain vocations and the higher advantages in life the selling of diseased milk, and the payment of inadequate wages to shop girls, thus driving them into lives of vice, were some things which Prof. Russell held society was doing with a perfectly good conscience.

Daisy Barr made a plea for the American Home. Life in city flats and the exclusion of families having children from rented property by many landlords were two causes leading to the disintegration of the home, according to Miss Barr. Much criticism was also made of the system which compels workingmen to remain at their labor long hours and seven days a week. This was said to keep them away from the family and the home and was an undermining force.

The meetings addressed by Elbert Russell and Daisy Barr were held inside the church, while from platforms erected in the yard various persons talked to the overflow of people, formed a more prominent part in the day's services than ever before.

The Winning of Barbara Worth. (A Review by E. W. Reynolds.)

"The Winning of Barbara Worth" by Harold Bell Wright, is another star in the author's crown of success and the brightest of them all. In this present-day story of desert lift and the national reclamation work we have as clean and wholesome a book as man ever wrote a story of big things, strong people and high ideals.

He has delineated the passions, the longings, the motives, the loves and hatreds of men and women with added skill and he has^ also with finer power analyzed human emotions and penetrated more keen ly the depths of the human soul.

The Winning of Barbara Worth is different from any novel the author has heretofore done, but it is somewhat after the style of "The Shepherd of the Hills." The three elements of strength, "motive power," "story power," and "thought power," that each of his other three novels in turn so distinctly possess, are combined in this latest story.

Living for the past four years in the great Colorado desert and actively engaged with other pioneers in reclaiming our barren and waste lands, it was only natural that Mr. Wright should move the scene of his story.

It remained for the author of "That Printer of Udell's" and "The Shepherd of the Hills" to lay bare the real conditions in actual church life of the present day in that masterful work, "The Calling of Dan Matthews," and not only continue his uplifting work, but make a further search for truth in his allegory of life, "The Uncrowned King," that delightful little volume of a hundred pages.

So it has remained for this gifted author to write "The Winning of Barbara Worth," a great American novel of desert life, and the national reclamation work and the present-day Good Business. Will Harold Bell Wright ever give us a bigger story than "The Winning of Barbara Worth? Many thousands of readers will ask themselves this same question, but time only holds the answer. d&w

The Delaware County W. C. T. ot its annual meeting this week, adopted resolutions for State-wide Prohibition, and the speakers flayed everything from the scanty apparel worn by some society women, to the taking of automobile rides on Sunday instead of going church. Sunday excursions were deplored, and it was declared that all stores should close on Sunday.

Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S A S I A

IN MOST CASES THEY ARE DIRECTLY OPPOSITE AND SEEM VERY QUEER AT FIRST TO

ALL THE AMERICANS.

RAIN AVERTS FAMINE THREAT

Miss Minnie Houck, a Missionary From Hancock County, Writes of Her Work, Prospects and Wrhat

She Has Learned in the Far Eastern Country.

The following letter from Miss Minnie Houck, a Hancock county missionary in India, will be read with interest by her many friends and well wishers in her home city and county: "Gorakpur, India, "August 17, 1911. "Dear Children:—In my last letter I told you of my trip up the Himalayas. I spent a delightful month in Almora, the climate being cool and refreshing. The atmosphere was so clear that sometimes we could see the far distant snowcapped peaks at least two hundred miles away. The word 'Himalaya' is taken from two words—'him,' meaning snow, and 'alaya,' the aibode—so they are the place of perpetual snow. There are many little Indian Christian children in Almora, some of whom came to see me and sang me their kindergarten songs in Hindi. When I prepared to come down the mountains, I did not come down horseback, but in a 'dandi,' which has somewhat the shape of a boat with one seat in it and is carried on the shoulders of the coolies by the poles attached to both ends. Six coolies carried the 'dandi' and one coolie loaded my baggage on his head and carried it thirty-seven miles up and down the mountain paths. As I had no horse to guide, I could watch the ever-changing scenery with great enjoyment. The mountains in many places were so steep that we had to wind back and forth down the mountain side. In some places on the roadside the trees and underbrush were very thick so that the sun's rays could not penetrate beneath them. Beautiful ferns were growing from thoir mossy beds on the branches of the trees. I stopped to gather them, also flowers and begonias, which were growing wild. As we passed a dense thicket some baboons sprang from our pathway and, hanging by their tails on the trees, they leaped from branch to branch, the little baby monkies holding fast to their mothers. They were grey with black heads and thought they were very homely creatures. "At the close of the second day's march we reached the railway station just in time to catch the train.

It was very hot at the foot-hills, and also down on the plains. When I reached my home in Gorakhpur, I found it had not rained for a month, although it was in the middle of the rainy season. The rice and other grain fields looked yellow and withered, Every one was talking of a coming famine and already the government had taken steps toward famine relief, but the rains have now come to some parts of India, and although there may still be a famine, it will not be general. The missionaries have told me that it is very sad in famine times. A few years ago there was a very great famine it did not rain for over a year. The wells and the streams went dry and there was great suffering and many people starved to death. When at last one day it began to rain, the people rushed out of their houses, throwing up their hands and crying out with delight. Some dropped onto their knees and licked up the water. There is much plague and famine in this land of great spiritual darkness. Still, the old proverb is true that it is an ill wind that blows no one any good. Parents are unwilling for their children to break caste, leave their heathen religion and become Christians, but when thousands of orphans are left to die by the roadside, then the missionaries gather them into the mission schools, and they are trained up in the right way and become earnest Christians, which perhaps they, never would have been had there not been a famine. The erection of our new mission house at Uska Bazar is very slow work, for it is difficult to get brick and other building materials during the rainy season. "Forty miles from here is our 'County Seat' town, Basti (pronounced Bustee) City. A number of years ago the English Church Missionary Society built an Anglo-

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vernacular school and native house. They sent some Indian Christians to live there, but as they had no missionaries to spare to go there, they finally rented the buildings for a government school. We had passed through there several times, hoping to get a suitable place to open a mission station and at last we were rewarded by finding that the school was out and the buildings empty. We have rented them and two of our party, Miss Doll and Miss Cunningham, will take charge. Many pejpple at Basti City have called on the new missionaries and are so glad to have them locate there. "From some friends who have been many years in India, I have gained some interesting information which will show you how different are the customs of the people on the opposite side of the globe from which you live. In America, if a boy is willful, they say his will must be broken in India, they say his head must be broken. In America, cattle and animals are kept in the back yard, while in India, always in the front yard. In America carpenters, masons and blacksmiths stand up, while in India they and nearly everyone else invariably sit down to work and only stand up to walk. In India, the dressmakers and cooks are men, while the women are hod carriers. Instead of sewing with the needle pointing toward them, they push it directly away from them. "In sawing wood in America, the carpenters use the 'pr stroke,' in India, just the opposite. The same noise to make a iiorse go in America, is used to make him stop in India. In America, when passing each other on the street, we always turn to the right in India always to the left. In America, when men dine, they generally 'dress up,' but in India they undress, leaving only a dhote on. Women in America are served first, while in India the men and boys are served first and the women get whatever is left.. In entering a house in America, the men take off their hats in

India they keep their hats on, but take their shoes off. In America the women gather their dresses in the back in India always in the front. In reading Hindustani, they commence at the back of the books and read from right to left. A writer of letters signs his name at the top. "In conclusion, let me say that it would be well for you children to always cultivate a grateful spirit for the blessings of a Christian land. Ever your friend, "Minnie L. Houck.."

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Dinner For Aged Lady. A birthday dinner was given for Mrs. Sarah Moore Sunday, September 24th at Julietta, in honor of her seventy-seventh birthday. She is still poorly, not having fully recovered from the injuries she received in an accident in which she was thrown from a buggy and rendered unconscious for a time a few weeks ago. Aside from this, she enjoys good health and was very glad to have her relatives come in. It is the intention that this shall be an annual affair as long as she lives. A few were unable to be there at this time, but next year it is hoped that every relative will be present. Those attending were Mrs. Sarah'Moore, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Conner and daughter, Ruth Owen Moore, Howard Moore, Willie Moore, Samuel Moore and wife, Etta Cooper, Orin Moore, Ola Teal Floss Teal, Charles Teal, Guy Bills, Harold Helms, Bert J. Cooper, Earl D. Martin, Merrill Boles, Florabel Warrenburg, Ossie Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Warrenburg, Ralph Bills, Loren B. Helms, Emma Moore Mr. and Mrs. Murry Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. John Boles, Minnie Bills, Nelle Helms, Sylvia Teal, Henry Johnson and Harry Johnson.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Junken, of Fountaintown, gave a reception on Sunday, September 24th in honor of their son, Jesse, who was married Wednesday of last week to Miss Pearl McNamara. Those present were the Misses Ruth McNamara, Marie and Bessie Miller, Miss Ethel Downing, Miss Edna Ross, Miss Jessie Karr, and Messrs Burl Boring, Edgar Ross, Ray McNamara. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crane, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ensminger, Mrs. Melvira McNamara, Mr. and Mrs. 01 Junken, of Morristown, and Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Beckner and son, Alfred, of Hannibal, Mo.

Children Orv FOR FLETCHER'S A S O I A

RIGHTS OF PEDESTRIANS NEW CONSTITUTION

The Motor Vehicles Have Necessitated Writing of Many Laws.

The automobile has been on the road long enough to give the courts much business and to add to the number of law books. "The Law of Motor Vehicles" is the title of a 700-page volume in which is to be found the law as it has been set forth in the decisions of Federal and State Courts. All who have to do with motor vehicles should read it and thus learn what things are lawful for them and what are not.

There are some passages in the book which are of interest to the pedestrian, for they specify what he has a right to expect of the motor car driver. "In addition to sounding a signal of warning, the driver is bound to reduce the speed of his vehicle, and if a collision is imminent he must bring it to a stop, and he must not take chances of the pedestrian getting out of the way. Nor does the duty to stop arise only where a collision is threatened it exists in every case where a pedestrian may be placed in a position of danger by the vehicle continuing on its course. "A pedestrian has an equal right upon a cross walk with the driver of a motor vehicle, and he has a right to expect that the driver, by operating the car at a controllable speed, will avoid running him down while he is on his original course along the street."

In approaching and passing a street car standing at a regular stopping place, it is the duty of the driver to exercise very great care. He must change the course of his automobile so as to pass the car at a distance, reduce the speed of the vehicle, or even bring it to a stop. And if he passes rapidly by the street car he is guilty of negligence.

Junken-McNamara.

Jesse Junken, of Shelby county, and Miss Pearl McNamara, of Fountaintown, were married at Shelbyville Wednesday at 12 o'clock with the Rev. Cloyd Goodnight, the Christian church minister, officiating. The bride is the youngest daughter of the late Jeremiah McNamara, and is one of Fountaintown's most popular young ladies, and Jesse should be proud of the prize he has won.

The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Junken, and is one of Shelby county's most industrious and worthy young men. After the ceremony the happy couple returned to the home of the bride, where a fine supper awaited them. Mr. Junken has a bright prospect for the future as a farmer and all arrangements have been made for the same.

BAD LUCK* OMEN.

Bird Flew Into Firebox and Engineer Quit the Road.

A Logansport dispatch says: Ed Sterrett, engineer on the Wabash railroad, has resigned his position because a bird flew into the cab of his engine, while the train was passing through Logansport, and when he and his fireman tried to catch it, it fluttered into the open firebox and was incinerated.

At the time he thought that this was an omen of bad luck and later events proved it to be true. As the train neared Lafayette he came near running down a man, and two days later his engine was derailed at Delphi. He only saved his life by jumping. He feared that if he continued he would meet with an accident and be hurt or killed, and so he resigned.

Successful Operation.

Dr. J. A. Comstock, of this city, who was operated upon at the Deaconess Hospital Monday, is getting along nicely. The operation was the sixth that the doctor has undergone in the past few years. He rallied readily, and after he was entirely free from the influence of the ether, to his son-in-law, Mr. Spannuth, who was present, he said: "Well, tell Spencer, if he inquires what's the latest news from the seat of war, that I'm still living and holding the fort." It is needless to say that the doctor is a soldier. He has the nerve and fortitude to endure and make the best of everything that happens. Although Dr. Comstock is 68 years old, the surgeon who operated upon him is quite confident that the last operation is final and that the doctor will soon recover.

John M. Hall, ex-County Clerk, found his fine $300 black mare dead in the pasture Sunday morning. She was insured with W. I. Garriott, agent for the American Live Stock Insurance Company, for $200. dw

Judge Remster, of Marion County,. Handed Down Decision Monday Morning on Constitution-

Early on Monday morning Judge Charles Remster, of Marion county,, handed down a decision, declaring the new State Constitution adopted by the last Legislature, to be un*~ constitutional. It will now go to the higher courts for further consideration and higher decisions-.

Foley's Kidney Remedy (Liquid) Is a great medicine of proven value for both acute and chronic kidney ailments. It is especially recommended to elderly people for its wonderful tonic and reconstructivequalities, and the permanent relief and comfort it gives them. M. C. Quigley.

Col. W. I. Burnside and Col. Ji. E_ Frost, Auctioneers, Greenfield, Ind. PUBLIC SALE

The undersigned will sell at public auction at his home in Brandywine township, six miles southeast of Greenfield, on the Greenfield & Morristown Pike, and six miles northwest of Morristown, on the old James Tyner farm, on

Tuesday, October 3, 1911, Beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., the following personal property, to-wit:

Nine head of horses, consisting of one bay mare, 7 years old, in foal one bay mare, 5 years old, in foal one bay mare, 4 years old, in foal one bay mare, 6 years old one gray horse, 3 years old one black horse, 11 years old two Colts, coming 3-' years old.

Thirteen head of cattle, including four full blooded Jersey milch cows, bred to a full-blooded Jersey bull—all gentle, broke-to-lead cows and good milkers.

Forty-seven head of hogs, including forty-two spring shoats, weighing about 100 pounds each four good brood sows, bred, will farrow soon, and one fine Poland China* male hog.

Thirty-five acres of good corn in? field. Twenty tons of extra good timothy hay in mow.

Farming Implements and Machinery, including one 2-horse wagon,, one hay rack, one Osborne mower, one 16-inch 3-horse riding breakingplow, one 14-inch walking breaking plow, one 2-horse steel harrow, one 2-horse steel hay rake, two com cultivators, two corn planters, one with check rower one extra good breaking cart, one set of double work harness, and many other articles too numerous to mention.

Fifty head of sheep. Terms of Sale—All sums of $5.00 and under, cash in hand on sums over that amount, a credit of 10 months will be given, the purchaser executing bankable note with approved freehold security, waiving relief from valuation and appraisement laws. A discount of 5 per cent, for cash on all sums over $5. No property to be removed from premises until terms of sale are complied with.

HERMAN C. HILL.

J. E. Sample, Clerk. W21-28—dl9-22-26-29-30.

T. H. I. & E. TIME TABLE East Bound 5:11 A. 6:11 A. 7:11 A. M. 8:11 A. M. 9:15 Dayton Limited A. M. 0:11 A. M. 1:11 ...• A. M. 12:15 Limited....'. P. M. 1:11 P. M. 2:11 P. M. 3:15 Dayton Limited P. M. 4:11 P. M. 5:11 P. M. 6:11 Local to Gfld P. M. 6:15 Limited P. M. 7:11 P. M. 8:15 Dayton Limited P. M. 9:11 To Gfld P. M. 10:11 P. M. 12:30 To Gfld A. M.

West Bound

5:15 A. M. 6:28 A. M. 7:18 A. M. 8:18 A. M. 9:05 Limited A. M. 10:18 A. M. 11:01 Dayton Limited A. M. 12:20 A. M. 1:18 P. M. 2:18 P. M. 3:20 P. M. 4:02 Dayton Limited P. M. 5:18 P. M. 6J80 P. M. 7:02 Limited P. M. 8:20 P. M. 9:44 P. M« 10:02 Dayton Limited P. M. 11:18 To Gfld P. M. 12:15 A. M.

The 8:20 p. m. west bound oar goes to Indianapolis on Sunday night only.

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