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Had Aged Man Running All Over Town at Waldron and He Never Caught On.

Residents of Waldron are still getting a great deal of amusement through recalling and discussing an incident that occurred in that town a short time ago when a nonagenarian widower from St. Paul visited the place seeking a wife, says the Shelbyville Democrat. He began by making a social call on one of the many buxom widows of the town. As soon as he had stated his purpose she caught the spirit of I he occasion and sent him to one of her widow neighbors. Itseems that the one and subsequent ones also caught the spirit as they kept the aged man running about town til 1 he was so tired his legs almost refused to support his body any longer. It seems that even then he did not take a tumble, for, just as he was ready to leave, he made arrangements with one of his gentleman friends to assist him in getting the consent of oneu. of the widows to become his wrife.

WILL HAVE CLEAN-UP DAY

Knightstown Board Acts After Request By Women's Clubs.

The Knightstown Federation of Women's clubs has launched its campaign for a cleaner Knightstown. At the regular council meeting, C. L. Shelton, on behalf of the fifteen to twenty representatives present fixed a general "cleanup day" some time this spring, when every citizen would be ordered to clean his sidewalks, alleys and all his premises. The board agreed to make this order for any day the Federation washes to set. A request was also made to allow the Federation to install waste boxes at the corners over the city

MRS. MATTIE BUNDY DEAD. Mrs. Mattie Bundy died at her home in Spiceland Thursday morning at about 10 o'clock. She was the wife of C. F. Bundy, of the Spiceland Sanitarium. Mr. and Mrs. Bundy formerly resided in Hancock county, near Maple Yalley, where they had many friends. Mrs. Moses Yandenbark, of this city, is a sister of Mr. Bundy and wras at the bedside of Mrs. Bundy since last Friday. Funeral Saturday at residence at 10 a. m.

Interment at Glencove cemetery, at Knightstown.

REPUBLICAN CALL.

Pursuant to the direction of the Republican State Committee, the Sixth District Committee, and the Chairmen of Fayette, Rush and Hancock County Committees, the Republicans of the several townships of Hancock County are called to meet Friday, March 22d, at 2 p. m., for the purpose of selecting delegates to the State Convention, to meet at Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Ind., on the 26th day of March, 1912, at 10 a. m., for the purpose of selecting four delegates and four alternates at large from Indiana to The Republican National Convention to be held in the City of Chicago, and for the purpose of nominating two electors at large, to be voted for at the November, 1912 election, and to select two contingent electors at large, who shall be qualified to take the place of either or both of said electors at large in case of disability to so act.

You will also select delegates in the various townships to meet in District Convention at Connersville, Ind., Thursday, March 28th, at 1:30 p. m., for the purpose of the selection of two delegates and two alternates to the National Convention at Chicago.

You will also select delegates to the Joint Senatorial Convention of Fayette, Rush and Hancock Counties, to be held at Connersville, Ind., March 28th at 10:30 a. m., for the selection of a candidate for Joint Senator.

One delegate and one alternate to be selected for each of the above purposes from each township, except Center, which is entitled to two delegates and two alternates.

The meeting places for the several townships shall be as follows: Blue River at Township Hall, Westland Brandywine at Couden school house Brown at Wilkinson Buck Creek at Mt. Comfort Center at Farmers' Room, court house Jackson at Cleveland Sugar Creek at New Palestine, and Vernon at Fortville. ORA MYERS, J. V. ROSSER, Chairman,

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STATE OFFICIAL ALMANAC FOE OF PATENT MEDICINES

Kansas State Board Issues One Giving Health Hints Instead of Testimonials.

The Kansas board of health has gone into competition with the patent medicine almanacs and is getting out an almanac of its own. In place of the testimonials about how Dr. Punk's pellets saved Mrs. Smith, of Squashtown, from an early grave, the Kansas almanac gives simple remedies for various ills, tells how to sleep, how to eat, how to avoid colds and various other bits of information of that kind, including the warning to "avoid patent medicines as a pestilence." The Kansas almanac gives all the usual astronomical information, and in place of general historical dates gives Kansas dates. Scattered through the book are health hints in epigram. Here are some of them: "An open window is better than an open grave." "Warm rooms have' killed more people than ever froze to death.'* "A stitch in the underwear may save a stitch in the side.'' "A dirty well is more dangerous than a dirty kitchen." "Flies in the kitchen are almost as dangerous as 'rough on rats' in the food." 'If your roof and your wTell both leak, fix your well first. "If your milkman brings warm milk, make it hot for him.'

WHERE THE BUYER GETS WORST OF IT

Buying in Packages Increase the High Cost of Living by the Chance of Short W'eight.

John C. Conners, for 12 years a sealer of weights and measures in Massachusetts, has been helping H. E. Barnard, chief chemist for the state board of health and state sealer of weights and measures, in preparing questions for the state examination of persons seeking credentials for appointment as sealers in counties and cities. There are about 155 applicants.

Mr. Conner's 12 years' experience as sealer in Massachusetts, followed by a period of weights and measures inspection in New York City, has led him to adopt the theory that one of the chief causes of the high cost of living is the preference for package foodstuffs, and that while the short weight in one package of any commodity may not do a dealer a great deal of good, it may work a great deal of harm to the poor buyer who must make every penny count. As an illustration of the latter, Mr. Conner told of a poor widow in Boston who bought her coal every Saturday night in a 100-pound bag. "She found," he said, "that the coal was running out every Friday evening, instead of lasting until Saturday night, as formerly. 1 caught the delivery man carrying a bag into her house one night, and found that instead of one hundred pounds, he was delivering only 80 pounds, although he collected for one hundred pounds. It meant probably four cents additional profit to the dealer, but it' meant the children of the widow had to stay in bed all day Saturday because there was not enough coal to heat the poor little tenement in which they lived. I give that merely as an example of what short weights do for poor people."

TEACH ON HOLIDAYS. Attorney-General Honan has written a letter to W. B. Bilkerton of Cataract, Ind., in which he holds that when a teacher has signed a contract he is expected to work on legal holidays unless excused. Mr. Bilkerton asked if he might obtain double pay for being forced to work on Lincoln's birthday.

In another official opinion, Mr. Honan held that the corrupt practice act passed by the 1911 Assembly, authorizes party primaries and provides for the expense of holding such primaries being paid by the county central committee by a regularly appointed treasurer.

Farmers may be pessimistic about, crops, but they usually think the country school teacher should save a good bunch of money.

R. L. Ogg has a force of men at work at the Ball Brothers glass factory in the west end of the city, relining the glass melting tanks and making other repairs, looking towards the reopening of the factory, it is hoped.

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Indiana Delegates to be Chosen to Attend Meeting for That Purpose in Kansas City.

Governor Marshall has been asked to appoint 20 delegates from Indiana to attend the convention to be held in Kansas City, April 17 and 18, to consider plans for building a permanent road across the continent. Governor Herbert S. Hadley, of Missouri, has written a letter to the Indiana governor asking co-operation.

The meeting is to be held under the auspices of the National Old Trails Road Association and a general program of interest to promoters of road building will be given. Tt is intended to plan that the transcontinenal road shall follow as nearly as is practicable the route of the Cumberland pike. Boon's Pike Road, the Santa Fe trail and the Sunset routes. The route of the proposed national highway lies across Indiana. Governor Hadley says: "As the route of the national highway crosses your state, I am certain the construction and making of a great transcontinental highway along the route of these old trails will be of particular interest. to the people of your state."

GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1912

WILL BE REBUILT

Governor Marshall himself is invited to attend the meeting as it is the object of the officers of the old trails association to have in attendance all governors through whose states the proposed road would be built. The governors will appoint any one wrho wishes to attend.

How She Managed.

W'henever a Vvonam who is a "good manager" prepares chicken salad she uses part veal as it is always much cheaper and can not be told from chicken in salad. After preparing chicken (and veal) salad for a big party lately she found too late that the usual conditions were reversed: Chicken was 12% cents a pound, while the veal used for economy's sake was 17% cents a pound.

IN MEMORIAM.

Ralph Kenneth, little son of Guss L. and Nellie Snider, was born in Gem, Ind., December 12, 1909, and died February 8, 1912, age two years, one month and twenty-seven days.

Little Ralph was taken sick with scarlet fever and lived just one short week. He always had a smile for everyone. To know him was to love him. In the home he was ever ready to romp and play. Oh, it is so sad and lonely now when we cannot hear his little pattering footsteps and happy little voice. We sadly miss his trust and love. He leaves a father, mother and little brother, Raymond, to mourn his untimely death.

A precious one from us has gone A voice we loved is still A face is vacant in our home

Which never can be filled.

God, in His wisdom has recalled The boom His love had given But though the body moulders here

The soul is safe in heaven. MOTHER.

MAY AUDIT CLAIMS

Commissioners Want To Be Sure Henry County's Bill Is Correct.

At their meeting last week the county commissioners had under consideration the claim of Henry county for something over $1,900 charged against this county in change of venue cases. The claims extend over a period of several years and the commissioners are considering the advisability of sending the county attorney and a helper to Henry county to audit the claims so they can act intelligently in the matter of allowing them.

DEATH OF ELIZABETH MOFFITT Mrs. -Elizabeth Moffitt, a pioneer lady, of Henry countydied Thursday morning at the home of her son, Sherman Moffitt,. She was near eighty years old, and is survived by six children. Funeral Saturday at noon at the Raysville Friends church.

Last year at this time a great deal of early spring farm work had been done, but so far there has been but very little accomplished this season, on, account, of the bad at 4

FOB RETURN THE OF CHESTEEN SMITH

Anderson M. E. Church Want Former Greenfield Man Another Year—Been there Four Years.

According to the Anderson papers, the official board of the First M, E. church there, will ask for the return for another year of Rev. Chesteen Smith, who has been the pastor there for four years. In the resolution, asking for his return, which was unanimously adopted, he receives high praise from the grateful people. The resolution says in part: "We wish to express our appreciation to the District Superintendent, the Bishop and the Annual Conference for having sent to us for the past four years our beloved pastor, Dr. Chesteen Smith, who has won his way into ours heart. "1st. As minister and teacher of the living Gospel of Jesus Christ, his sermons ever being enkinded with true light from above. "2nd. As pastor and organizer of our church forces, ever alert and ministering kindly unto those in need, and having so united the various departments of our church that all are working effectively and harmoniously for the upbuilding of His Kingdom. "3rd. As a man, citizen and friend, he has taken his place in our city as a leader in all that is best for the public good, winning the highest esteem of all wrho know him."

Rev. Smith is a son of the late W. G. Smith, of this city, and he was reared here in Greenfield and was a member of the M. E. church and Sunday school here.

MAD CAT BITES CHILD AT CAMBRIDGE CITY.

Animal Had Recently Been Bitten By Dog—Cat Killed and Head Sent to Indianapolis.

Cambridge City, Ind.—Edgar Marshall, the seven-year-old son of John Marshall, was attacked by a cat whe.n he went to the barn Tuesday morning to see his father. The lad received a painful wound on the left leg just below the knee. The cat was shot and the head taken to Indianapolis. There is little question but that the animal had hydrophobia. As has since been learned it was bitten by a dog a week ago and had been acting in a peculiar manner for two or three days.

TEACHERS

President Foster, of Portland, Ore., Asserts That Professional Spirit Is Chief Asset.

"I know of no state in which the teachers have so high a professional spirit as in Indiana," said President W. G. Foster, of Reed College, Portland, Ore., in an address- before the teachers of the Indianapolis public schools at Caleb Mills Hall Monday afternoon. "The professional spirit is one of the greatest compensations of teaching. It seems that teachers, like the monks of old, must be pledged to celibacy, poverty and obedience." "We teachers are really fortunate in not receiving the material compensation given many persons," he continued, "for if we did there might not be the professional spirit attached to the work. There are two classes of teachers. One class is composed of those who are so bad that they are good for nothing. The only other class is composed of those who are so good that no amount of money could pay them sufficiently. "I noticed great signs in Indianapolis urging men to join the United States krmy, and the bulletins set forth the inducements of an easy life. Like the persons who enlist, are the persons who enter the teaching profession—those who come expecting a 'snap' will have an awakening. "The teachers must realize that true success is labor. The teachers recoive only little pay, but the greatest remuneration comes to those who think in terms of others. We must retain our visions of the ideal."

Miss Nettie Barrett, formerly a teacher in the Greenfield schools, is now at Humbolt, Ariz., where she has a position in the schools. She likes her position and states that she has the windows up and no fire in the school room.

LIST OF ALLOWANCES.

Made by the Board of Commissioners of Hancock County at a Meeting Held March 6, 1912. Shelby County, Righter Culvert

$357 28

John Boring, asst. fireman H. 32 00 Inquest Howard Whelchel. Earl R. Gibbs. coroner fees..$ 8 00 Delia Iv. Gibbs, clerk fees... 4 00 Moses C. Wood, clerk fees.. 35 L. J. Trees, witness fees 75 Demaris Trees, witness fees 75

Inquest W. G. Smith.

Earl R. Gibbs, coroner fees..S 10 40 Delia Iv. Gibbs, clerk's fees.. 6 00 Moses C. Wood, clerk's fees.. 35 Dr. C. K. Bruner, witness fees 1 15

Inquest Henry Bussell.

Earl R, Gibbs, coroner fees.. 8 30 Delia K. Gibbs, clerk's fees. 4 00 Moses C. Woood, clerk's fees 50

Inquest Eldon C. Jessup. Earl R. Gibbs, coroner fees.. 8 30 Delia Iv. Gibbs, clerk's fees. 4 00 Moses C. Wood, clerk's fees. 35 John Boring, asst. fireman

H. 20 00 W. H. Boyd, money adv., fireman H. 10 00

LAWRENCE WOOD. Auditor.

TO LICENSE FORTUNE TELLERS. The "kibosh" was put on the fortune-telling business in all its forms, from the days of Pharoah dowut to the twentieth century, when Councilman Howard Elliott introduced on first reading an ordinance fixing a license fee for astrologers, palmists, hypnotists and ordinary fortune-tellers, of $5 per day or fifteen simoleums per week. True, this ordinance was only up for its first reading, but the chances are that it will go through the council like a pay-train passing a tramp.—Newr Castle Times.

TEMPLE CLUB PLANS PARTY. The Temple Club, board of directors bave arranged for a party which will be "the" party of the yeaj* for which invitations will be sent out in a fewr days. It has been arranged to have a musical and literary program from 7:45( to 9 p. m. Social hour and a two-course luncheon from 9 until 10, and a dance from 10 until 12. Also a smoker and billiards from 9 until 12,

SOME CHICKENS, THESE. Frank Hatfield sold twelve Barred Plymouth Rock hens last wreek to William Hodupp, the local poultry dealer, that for size probably established a local record. The twelve weighed an even one hundred pounds, an average of eight and one-third pounds each. Mr. Hodupp says they beat anything he had seen in thirty-three years' experience in the business.—Knightstown Banner.

May 18 Peace Day.

Charles A. Greathouse. state superintendent of public instructions, has sent the state printer a program to be distributed among the schools of the state for observance of "Peace Day." The program was prepared by Miss Charity Dye, of Indianapolis, and the date selected for the observance is May 18. Many of the schools of the state will be dismissed before that time but the state superintendent proposes that where such is the case, the teachers shall carry out the program on the last day of school, or on some preceding day. The purpose of the program is to emphasize the world peace movement, and to give the pupils a better understanding of what the movement proposes to accomplish.

HOWt much better is a plain, quiet Christian home where all is peace and cordiality, the neighbors heartily welcome to come and go at will, and freed from the, pestering senseless conventionalities of fashionable life which at best cannot continue a hundred years, fretted and burdened and worn out prematurely by vain efforts to ape the manners of the idle, irreligious, self-seeking rich devotee of pleasure?

JUST A CRUSHED FLY. For seven months an expert accountant searched the books of a certain grain company in St. Paul, Minn., for an error of an even hundred dollars. They spent much more than a hundred dollars in trying to trace the money. And then, after having gone over the books time and again, the accountant's pencil chanced to stop at an item of $140. Then pencil point rested on the figure one, when the figure suddenly broke in two and slid down the page. Upon examination it proved that the supposed figure "1" was a fly's leg. The fly had undoubtedly been crushed in the 'book when it was closed and one of its legs had chanced to adhere to the page in such a way as to make the entry of fqrty dollars appear to be exactly one hundred dollars, greater.

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FORTVILLE FIGURES ON ELECTRIC LIGHTS

The Citizens Don't Think Much of Traction Company Offer—May Install Their Own Light and Water Plant.

According to the Fortville Tribune, that town is figuring on electric lights for both street and commercial purposes. A mass-meeting was held Monday night to consider a proposition from the Traction Light and Power Company, but the citizens did not seem to think much of the proposition, as the company asked for a fifty year franchise. In addition they asked for a contract for forty street lights at $25 each, for a term of ten years, which would mean an outlay of 810,000 for street lights.

A proposition now being considered is for the town to install its own light and water plant. The Tribune says the town has a taxable valuation of $500,000 without a bonded debt. With a 2 per cent, levy for 20 years, they figure that they can install their own double plant.

About Conventions.

The multiplicity of conventions of all kinds have become well nigh or quite a burden. If the average man were to attend one half of these gatherings to which he is invited in the course of a year he would have but little time left for anything else and would be decidedly poorer in purse. In truth this matter of conventions is overdone. Every society, great or shall, must have its conventions or several of them in the course of a year. While in many cases such meetings are of value, probably with most of them it means an expenditure of time, money and energy that could be more profitably utilized in other ways for the benefit, of the causes in whose interest they are held. It is noteworthy that the Central Passenger Association favors the abolition of special rates for delegates to conventions.

Mrs. Margaret Butler and familyare moving this week from Westland to the John H. Binford property on Walnut street.

Rev. John Rees, who went to Central Kansas several years ago from Morristown. is back and is making arrangements to locate in this city in the near future.

CALL FOR REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

TO THE REPUBLICANS OF INDIANA AND ALL THOSE WHO DESIRE TO CO-OPERATE WITH

THEM:

Pursuant to the Order of the Republican State Committee, you are invited to participate in the primaries of the various counties of the State, for the selection of delegates to the above Convention, upon Friday, the 22d, or Saturday, the 23d day of March, 1912. The hour and places in the respective counties for the holding of these meetings will be fixed by the Republican County Central Committee, and notice of the same will be given by official call, to be signed by the Chairman and Secretary of such Committee, and published in the Republican county newspapers.

The delegates so selected will meet in State Convention at Tomlinson Hall in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, on Tuesday, the 26th day of March, 1912, 10 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of selecting four delegates and four alternate delegates at large from Indiana to the Republican National Convention to be held in the City of Chicago on June 18, 1912 and for the additional purpose of nominating two electors at large to be voted for at the November election, 1912, and to select two contingent electors at large, who shall be qualified and take the place of either or both of said electors at large in case of their disability to so act before said election.

Representation in this Convention of the various counties of the State will be upon the basis of one delegate and one alternate delegate for each two hundred votes cast for the Honorable Otis E. Gulley for Secretary of State at the November election of 1910, and one delegate and one alternate delegate for an additional fraction of one hundred votes or more cast as aforesaid, to the several counties. Hancock is as follows: 2,008 votes, 10 delegates.

FRED SIMS,

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