Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 28 March 1912 — Page 3

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COMBINATION SALE

Huston Combination and Exchange Sale, Made for the Benefit of the Farmers and Town-people,

Saturday, March 30th, 1912 at 1:30 O'clock.. Huston's Livery Barn.

There will be sold. 10 head of horses, eonsistng of 2 draft horses, 4 general purpose horses, all good farm horses, good workers. 2 good drivers and 2 young horses. 2 cows, good milk cows, will be recommended 'on day of sale.

FARM TOOLS— farm wagon, 2 spring wagons, 1 one-horse wagon, several buggies, and harness, some No. 1 work harness, 1 cultivator, 3 breaking plows, one lot of shovels, spades, picks, hoes, forks, single and double trees, one planter with fertilizer attachment.

HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE consistin of stoves, pans dishes, chairs, 5 sofas, cupboards. bureaus, bed and bedding, and other articles too numerous to mention. This furniture and bedding is from a nice clean family and is in good shape.

If you want to buy, come to this sale. It is a good place to buy, as we have good crowds. LIST your property in this sale. It is the only way to sell it. We sell anything from a paper of needles to a farm.

TERMS—All sums of $10.00 and under, cash in hand. On sums over that amount a credit of 6 months will be given purchaser to execute a good bankable note, drawing interest at 8 per cent from date. 6 per cent discount per annum for cash. No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with.

I, Charles Huston, will not be responsible for any accident or dispute, should any occur, but I will do every thing in my power to prevent same. 26d-3 J. E. Frost, Austioneer

LASTISERVICE OF CONFERENCE !W

At the Bradley M. E. Church—Annual Conference Will Meet at Warsaw \ext Week—Rev.

Guild Ends Term.

The last services of the present conference year, will be held at the Bradley M. E. church Sunday. The annual North Indiana M. E. Conference meets at Warsaw on the 27th or next Wednesday. Rev. Thomas H. Guild, Richmond district superintendent, will retire from that position when the conference meets, as he will have served six years, or a term. There has been considerable speculation as to whether or not Rev. Leslie J. Naftzger will return to this charge for another year, but no one seems to know anything definite concerning the matter.

It is Understood that no action has been taken by the church board and Mr. Naftzger has been heard to say that he will go where the conference sends him. Rev. Naftzger is recognized as one of'the very strongest preachers in the conference. He served a term of six years as district superintendent before coming to Greenfield.

W. H. Gant and family, of Indianapolis, moved to their home in this city, Thursday. The daughter, Rosaline, who was taking treatment at Zink's gymnasium is much improved. She will however continue to take treatment, going bach and forth from this city.

Mrs. Fannie M. Jones, of Lawrenceburg, was the guest of Mrs. M. C. Quigley Thursday night. She is a sister of the late Elmer E. Ferris who was for several years the pharmacist clerk in Mr. Quigley's store. Mrs. Jones was looking after isome business connected with the life insurance which her brother carried.

.. Death at Morristown. Mr. Josepth Shekell, of Morristown, died at 10 o'clock Friday evening. Oak S. Morrison of this city was called to prepare the body for burial.

John W. Sickelsmith, Greensboro, Pa., has three children, and like' most children, they frequently take cold. "We have tried several kinds of cough medicine," he says, "but "have never found any yet that did j^hem as much good as Chamber'Main's Cough Remedy." For sale by all dealers.

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Jury Out Only a Few Minutes In Three Cornered Case For Money Left By Charles M. Winn.

The jury was out only a few minutes. Monday morning in the three cornered suit for the §900 inusrance money left by the late Cnarles M. Winn. Mrs. Horace Wickard made application for the money, as the person named as beneficiary in the policy, on her agreement to care of her brother and give his'body a proper burial. Her husband, Horace Wickard asked for $59 of the amount, as money he advanced on the premiums on the policy. The widow, Catherine Winn, administratrix of the estate of Mr. Winn made application for it, alleging that Mr. Winn was of unsound mind when the beneficiary was changed.

The case was on trial a week and the jury was instructed Monday morning. They returned a verdict in a few minutes, for Mrs. Horace Wickard, the beneficiary and for premiums advanced, finding that Horace Wickard, on his claim for Mr. Winn was of sound mind when he made his sister the beneficiary.

R. G. Collins, postmaster, Barnegat, N. J., was troubled with a severe la grippe cough. He says: "I would be completely exhausted after each fit of violent coughing. I bought a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and before I had taken it all the coughing spells had entirely ceased. It can't be beat." M. C. Quigley.

OIL ALL OF ITS ROADS

Contract For Large Quantity of Road Oil at Very Liberal Prices —Farmers are Willing.

The oiling of county roads seems to be growing in favor as Marion counly is about to cover all of its roads with the dust killer. At the price it paid it will run into big money but the farmers of that county seems willing to pay the price. The Indianapolis News says:

The Barrett Manufacturing Company. of Cincinnati, was the successful bidder on the contract to supply Marion county with forty thousand gallons of oil which will be spread on the county roads this summer. The board of county commissioners lias contracted for the oil at 101/-! cents a gallon. The company supplying it will furnish a superintendent for the work and a spreader.

With the exception of the roads leading to the speedway and to the fair grounds, none in Marion county has ever been oiled. The great amount of automobile driving done now on the county roads has made this form of recreation distasteful to the farmers who live by the roadside, because of the great clouds of dust which the automobiles put in notion. Many complaints were received from the farmers by the boadr last year. It is thought that oiling will not only eliminate the dust, but will tend to improve the roads.

Contracts for crushed stone to be used on the roads have also been awarded by the boadr. The A. F. Zearing Company will supply the county with 130 carloads of crushed stone the Ohio and Indiana Stone Company, forty cars A. B. Meyer Company, forty cars the prices range from 99 cents to $1.15 a yard.

foal, also one two year old filly. Vt mile south of stop 36. 23d-2 w-1 Charles Burton

Nineteen Miles a Second

without a jar, shock or disturbance, is the awful speed of our earth through space. We wonder at such ease of nature's movement, and so do those who take Dr. King's New Life Pills. No griping, no. distress, just thorough work that brings good health and fine feeling .25 cents at M. C. Quigley's.

Misses Ethel Harlan and Nelle Kinsley, teacners at N6w Castle, are at home spending their vacations in this city with their parents.

J. C. Vance has returned home from a ten days stay at the Martinsville Sanitarium. He is somewhat improved.

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INSURANCE MONEY 10 THE PLAINTIFF

No Choice as Between Candidates for Presidency On This Issue—Roosevelt Also Declared Payne Tariff Law Best Yet.

Theodore Roosevelt is on record three times in public speeches as indorsing the Canadian reciprocity policy of President Taft. This issue is now dead through the failure of Canada to ratify the trade agreement on the ground that the United States would derive the gres '«ist benefit from its provisions. The fact remains, however, that the farmers of the country are not generally aware that Mr. Roosevelt so thoroughly approved of Canadian reciprocity when it was a live issue, Canadian reciprocity was voted for by Republicans and Democrats ah'ke when it was before congress and, as between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft, in the present campaign for the Republican nomination for president, there is no choice on this Issue.

Mr. Roosevelt's public indorsements of Canadian reciprocity were as follows

In a speech at Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 11, 1911, he said: "Here, friends in Michigan, right on the northern frontier, I have the peculiar right to say a word of congratulation to you and to all of us upon the likelihood that we shall soon have closer reciprocal tariff and trade relations with the great nation to the north of us. (Applause.) And I feel so pleased primarily because I wish to see the two peoples, the Canadian and the American peoples, drawn together by the closest ties on a footing of complete equality of interest and mutual respect. (Applause.) I feel that it should be one of the cardinal policies of this republic to establish the very closest relations of good will and friendship with the Dominion of Canada." (Applause.)

In a speech before the Republican Club of New York city, delivered at the Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf Hotel on Feb. 13. 1911, he said: "I want to say how glad I am at the way in which the members of the club here tonight responded to the two appeals made to them to uphold the hands of President Taft, both in his effort to secure reciprocity with Canada, and in his effort to secure the fortification of the Panama Canal. "And in addition to what has been said about reciprocity with Canada I would like to make this point: It should always be a cardinal point in our foreign policy to establish the closest and most friendly relations of equal respect and advantage with our great neighbor on the north. And I hail the reciprocity arrangement because it represents an effort to bring about a closer, a more intimate, a more friendly relationship of mutual advantage on equal terms between Canada and the United States."

At Sioux City, Iowa, on September 3, 1910, Mr. Roosevelt said: "I was particularly pleased with what the president (Taft) said in his letter on the subject of the tariff commission. A number of senators and congressmen have for some years advocated this as the proper method of dealing with the tariff, and I am glad that the country now seems awakened to the idea that a tariff commission offers the only solution of the problem which is both rational and Insures the absence of jobbery. The president (Taft) from the beginning advocated this commission. "There is another feature of the tariff law and points our course in the right direction, the maximum and minimum provision, and here again I wish to point out .that the value of the provision has depended largely upon the excellent work done by the administration in the negotiations with the Dominion Of Canada, which were the most difficult of all, and yet in my eyes the most important, because I esteem it of vital consequence that we should always be on relations of the highest friendship and good will with our great and growing neighbor in the north."

At Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on the same day, Mr. Roosevelt discussed the tariff question in general, after having gone over his speech carefully with Senator Dolliver of Iowa, and in the course of his remarks he said: "I think that the present tariff (Payne law) is better than the last (Dingley law), and considerably better than the one before the last (McKinley law) but it has certainly failed tp give general satisfaction."

From these quotations from Mr. Roosevelt's speeches it is, therefore, apparent that there can be no choice as between President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt on these issues,

GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1912

RECIPROCITY PACT

Three Times Indorsed Canadian Agreement in Public Speeches.

SQUARE DEAL IS DUE TAFT

In connection with his public utterances on the tariff Mr. Roosevelt has also joined President Taft in saying that the Payne tariff law, while by no means perfect, is, nevertheless, "the best tariff law yet passed by congress" under the old system of making such laws. Of course President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt are both now committed to the tariff commission plan of revising the tariff and Mr. Roosevelt has given President Taft credit for advocating this commission plan "from the beginning.

IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF DRAMATIC CLUB.

Sunday morning's indianapolis Star contained a picture of Jesse Pavey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Pavey, formerly of this city. The picture was accompained by the following news item that, will be of interest to people here, his former home.

Jesse I. Pavey, of Greenfield. Ind., has been elected president of the Butler College Dramatic Club. Mr. Pavey will begin at once to plan for the work of the club in the spring term, which will begin March 28. He intends to hold a number of 'tryouts' among the students of the freshman and sophomore classes, and it is probable that a play will be given some time in the spring term under his direction. Mr. Pavev is a junior and has been prominent in college dramatics. He also is an athelete of ability.

FORMER GREENFIELD MAN IALKS BASE BALL

Win. damman. Plumber Here for Years and Well Known Pitcher Says His Base Ball Days

Are \ot Quite Over.

A picture of William Damman, a former Greenfield man employed by Lew Banks as a plumber, but now of Indianapolis, appeared in the Indianapolis Star Friday morning, together with some interesting baseball talk. Mr. Damman, having been an old Indian Star Pitcher, fifteen years ago. The article in the Star was in part as follows. "Pitchers a few years ago didn't have so much to say about going in as relief pitchers or working out of their turns," remarked "Wee Willie" Damman last night. It's the same "Wee Willie" that was a star at Washington Park fifteen years ago. "The baseball clubs today,'1 he continued, "carry seven or eight pitchers and some of these pitchers think it is a crime if they are asked to work more than twice a week. But it wasn't so very long ago thatithe average club regarded five men as more than enough for the pitching staff." "\V Willie." who has come back to the scene of his early baseball triumphs, is a plumber now, and he wields the pipe tongs at Kirkhoff's plumbing shop instead of the ball bat on the diamond. Damman does not believe his baseball days are over, for he says he feels just as young as he ever did. and he expects to take part in lots of baseball games this summer. The old whip, he says, is still good, not as good as ever, of course—for that would mean a berth on a major league team—but good enough to work in pretty fast company.

Damman has not played professional baseball for three years. When it came to going back to the bushes Damman decided it was time to get out of baseball. At first he thought of organizing a trust or opening a gold mine, but he got little encouragement, so he tried the next best thing and became a plumber—and he has been a plumber ever since.

But he still stick to baseball and can "fan" just like the oldest inhabitant. With the dope from the training camps starting the baseball fever in his veins last night Damman recalled his best year in Indianapolis and that brought forth the remark about pitchers and their work. "In 1896." he said, "I pitched fourty-seven games for Indianapolis, and won thirty-thre*. of them, and in the middle of the season when the other four pitchers were going bad on account of sickness and injury I pitched eight games in six days. Bobby Woods and Buckley were the catchers, and Bill Phillipe, George Cross and Frank Foreman the other pitchers. That made a pretty good pitching staff in those days, but the best pitchers in the world are not immune to injury, and it happened that almost the whole burden for a time was left to me. The hard week's work, really about the hardest week I ever had in baseball, did not injure me in the least, and I had the satisfaction of seeing the Indianapolis team finish in second place in the old Western League and then we played a post-season series with Detroit.

Damman says he expects to make his home in Indianapolis and if he does not play baseball any more he will be here to root for the club with which he was a star. He says he has received numerous offers of contracts with minor leagues but says it is more profitable for him to work at his trs^de and confine his baseball to games with semipros for his pastime.

PRESIDENT TUFTS

Insists That Government Be Run on Sound Business Basis.

STRONG PROGRESSIVE POLICY

His Personal Efforts to Reduce Cost of Efficient Service Bring Results— Work Done by the Economy and Efficiency Commission.

President Taft, more than any of his predecessors in the White House, has given strict attention to placing the government upon a business basis as regards its receipts and expenditures. Economy and efficiency became one of the cardinal policies of his administration as soon as he entered upon the presidency and it was well for the country that this was so, for his administration inherited a deficit in the treasury of $58,000,000, which has now been transformed to a surplus of $30,000,000. The average citizen and taxpayer will be interested in this fact because the problem which confronted the president at the outset, although upon a gigantic scale, was similar to that of the ordinary shopkeeper or business man, farmer or wage-earner or even housewife, who is called upon to make "both ends meet" either in business or in the home.

By law the secretary of the treasury is called upon every year to submit to congress in December the "estimates" of governmental expenditures for the next fiscal year beginning the following July 1. As congress has to provide the money to run the government the money has to be appropriated for specific purposes before it can be expended and if this were not done before the beginning of the fiscal year the machinery of government would stop unless emergency provision could be made.

How Estimates Are Made. The "estimates" are prepared by the executive departments of which each member of the cabinet is head. The cabinet officers get the "estimates" in their respective departments from their chiefs of bureaus and then combine them as the "estimates" for the department. The "estimates" from all departments are then sent to the secretary of the treasury to be submitted to congress, and they then become the "estimates" for the cost of running the entire government during the next fiscal year. Upon these figures congress makes the greater part of its annual appropriations amounting to more than one billion dollars annually.

Until 1908 a more or less lax methods of making estimates for the annual appropriations obtained throughout the government. The figures sent to congress each year, instead of showing indications of a careful "pruning" all along the line, showed there was a disposition among the departments to vie with each other iu getting as large appropriations as possible without considering whether or not the money demanded could be advantageously expended during the coming year. There was no standardization of supplies and the various departments were paying varying prices for the same article. In other words, business methods did not obtain in the government activities and there was no conservation of the resources of the treasury department.

What President Taft Did. As soon as President Taft took office this system ceased. At the outset President Taft impressed upon his cabinet officials the absolute necessity of economy and efficiency in their departments. He admonished them that not a dollar beyond what was necessary to run the government efficiently in the departments, including a fair margin for progress which is a part of efficiency in the program of President Taft, should be asked of congress. The effect was immediate. Every department began work at once to investigate its own expenditures and to devise ways and means of curtailing extravagance. The result was that congress received the lowest estimates it had seen in years. This was followed by a reduction in appropriations to correspond, always allowing for the natural growth of the government's activities, which represented a net saving to the taxpayers of the country.

President Taft was not, however, satisfied that all had been done that could be done. He realized that the departments of the government, like individuals, are naturally prone to be proud of their own achievements and by reason of their familiarity with their own endeavors, often insisted that their work was more important than the work of the other departments, relatively speaking. In order to correct that evil he asked congress to give him $100,000 for a commission of disinterested experts to investigate and report on the business of the government with a view to further economy and efficiency. Thus came into official being the commission of that name.

This commission, among other duties," was directed to prepare the receipts and expenditures of the government on a "budget" basin, which is the* system followed by practically all the leading nations of the world except the United States. Under this system it is possible for the humblest citizen to analyze the finances of the goverament At a[ny time and to lay his finger upon the responsible political

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party in The event of extravagance ost of stinginess. The system undec which appropriations for the government of the United States have beent made has even defied the experts in their endeavors to unravel the tangled skeins of expenditures, so that it 1m a fair statement to say that no citizen of this country up to the present time has ever thoroughly understood whera_ his taxes were expended.

The economy and„efficiency commission has already saved to the taxpayers of the country more than $3,000,000 annually by its suggestions and by the time it has completed ita work it is believed ten times this sum can be saved annually to the taxpayers. In the matter of railroad far® for government officials alone, it hasfound that $12,000,000 was expended in a single year at the highest prevailing railroad rates. At least a fourth of this can be saved by the application of business methods such as President Taft has applied and has insisted shall be applied to all the departments of the government.

TAFT DELEGATES

President Taft had on March 15, 1912, the following instructed delegates to the Republican national convention, which will meet at Chicago on June 19, 1912, as follows: Alabama ig District of Columbia 2 Florida 12 Georgia 22. Iowa $ Indiana 2 Michigan 2 Missouri 4 New Mexico

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Philippines 2 South Carolina

Virginia 14

Total Necessary for a choice 539

No Brass Band.

Brass bands and megaphones have not been needed to herald the accomplishments of the administration of President Taft. All of the great achievements for which the president is directly responsible have been accomplished quietly and without the slightest semblance of noise or bluster. The voters of the country displayed their faith in President Taft and his policies in 1908, ana they ar« prepared to again register their allegiance to his cause.

OF EXPERIENCE SAYS FRUIT KILLED

Elijah A. Hendy Says Peaches Are Killed and Trees Damaged—Apples and Cherries Damaged.

Elijah A. Henby, of the Pan Handle Nurseries said a few days ago that most of the fruit was killed, except apples and cherries. The peaches and plums are killed and in many places the peach trees are damaged by the severe cold weather.

Many fruit growers are of the opinion that the apples and cherries are now killed by the icicles which have been on the trees for two days and still cover the trees. Not only is the fruit probably killed. but many of the fruit trees are badly damaged by the weight of icewhich has broken many of them. The large Goble fruit orchard, west of this city, has suffered considerably.

The "Child's Welfare" movement has challenged the attention of thoughtful people everywhere. All mothers are natural supporters, and will find in Foley's Honey and Tar Compound a most valuable aid. Coughs and colds that unchecked lead to croup, bronchitis and pneumonia, yield quickly to the healing and soothing qualities of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. M. C. Quigley.

A young married couple who had gone to a boarding house caused an old married man to make the remark: "Which shows that when a man lets it go too long he doesn't know how to behave when married. There should be a law against taking a bride to a boarding house. A vine-covered cottage is the place for newly married people."

A Cold, La Grippe, Then Pneumonia is too often the fatal sequence, and coughs that hang on weaken the system and lower the vital resistance. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is a reliable medicine that stops the cough promptly by healing the cause soothes the inflamed air passages, and checks the cold. Keep always on hand. Refuse substitutes. M. C. Quigley.

Mr. and Mrs. Whicomb Melton, of south State street, are the parents of a fine boy baby.

Dr. T. E. Lowe and wife spent Sunday with his brother, George Lowe and' wife, at Indianapolis. ,vr.

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