Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 18 April 1912 — Page 4

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Syndicate Menace to Politics. Governor Marshall has frequently said that he did not have money enough to be an active candidate for President. He thinks that the money influence of millionaires in boosting and exploiting candidates for the presidency is a menace to American politics. He thinks a candidate must be a multimillionaire himself, or that, he must be backed by a group of wealthy men if he is to succeed. If a candidate is nominated and elected by millionaires, he thinks they will control him as an officer.

We are inclined to the opinion that political conditions are not so good when millionaires finance the campaign as when the money wTas furnished by the men holding public offices. We are opposed to the Civil Service rules which precludes campaign contributions from office holders. They are the beneficiaries and should pay the expenses of campaigns, and if they did, the rights of the people would be safer, and the officers elected would be freer to act for the people than when some syndicate combination of very rich men furnished the money. Mr. Taft would be making a better showing today, and would have more workers for him in the precincts throughout the whole country, if he had not put so many public officers under Civil Service, in life jobs. The spectacle he presents as to political organization is a mere joke even (o an amateur-

There never was a time in the history of the United States when there was greater need for respect for law and the courts than now. If the rights of property and citizenship are to be protected in the future as in the past, the constitution and the laws must be respected. There are too many dangerous "isms'' finding adherents in America for her citizens to be indifferent to the rights guaranteed to I hem under the constitution and the laws. To all persons tempted to depart from the old recognized principles, we would recommend that they abide by the old rules established by our forefathers. They were safe and sane. Beware of the demagogues who teach strange and questionable political doctrines.

If it should so happen that Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Col William J. Bryan should be the candidates of their respective parties for president, there would be such a campaign as never was witnessed before. It would be a campaign particularly of those two men— other campaigners would receive very little attention. What those two candidates would say about each other before the campaign closed would be a plenty.

The Socialists do not think that there should be any title in real estate. Only the man who pays the highest rent should have the right, they think, to farm the land and occupy the choice business sites in cities. Are the voters of this country ready to concede that there should be no title or ownership in land?

There can be no doubt but that Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey has gained over his competitors for the Democratic nomination for president in the past week. It now looks like he was in the best position to secure the nominating strength of the Baltimore convention.

A great many Taft men are inclined to fear that he can not be nominated since the Illinois and Pennsylvania delegates have been selected for Roosevelt. They will not be surprised to see Roosevelt carry .Massachusetts, Nebraska and California.

A few days ago a Texas Democrat who was enthusiastic for Theodore Roosevelt, said: "If Roosevelt were president he would take possession of all the country between the Rio Grande and the Panama Canal."

Newspaper Law.

The Court of Appeals of Missouri has handed down a decision as follows: "The preparation and publication ,of a newspaper involves much mental and physical labor as well as an outlay of money. One who accepts the paper by continuously taking it from the postofflce receives a bene­

You Expect of Your Bank

A voter said a few days ago that if Bryan and Roosevelt were candidates for the presidency, Mr. Bryan wrould be considered the more conservative of the two. How things do change in a few short years!

Let the Republican National Convention nominate a safe and strong candidate who can poll the strength of the party on a platform true to the well established principles of the party.

The man who is raising stock in these days of high prices, knows, without any argument, that it pays to raise the best. It matters not whether it is cattle, horses, hogs, sheep or chickens, there should be only one ambition, namely, to produce the best quality. This can be done only by following recognized well established rules. The man who has the highest standard of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep or chickents, not only can get the best prices, but he finds a ready market with plenty of eager buyers. Everybody unconsciously advertises high-classed stock by frequently talking about, and praising it. It costs no more to raise and develop thoroughbred stock for the market than common or grade stock, after one gets a start. There is much personal pleasure and satisfaction also in raising the best quality. The spring of the "year is a good time to consider such matters. If a man wants a good driving or race horse, he breeds to horses whose pedigree show drivers and racers among the ancestors. If a man wants to raise draft horses that will bring from $200 to $250 when they are 3 to 5 years old, he does not breed to a plug. If a man wants to top the market with a car load of fat cattle, he does not seek a scrub bull to head his herd of cows.

These rules that everybody recognize are responsible for the great improvement of stock in all lines. As time passes the observance of the rule will become more universal and the day will be when a man who offers a plug or scrub as a breeder, if not put out of business by law, will be eliminated for want of patronage. The best is the most profitable.

Young Man Pleads Guilty. Ervin Willhide pleaded guilty before Judge Mason to a charge of child desertion Saturday morning, and was sentenced to the State Prison for a term of one to three years. His sentence was suspended on condition that he make reasonable provisions for his two children. The young man stated that he made from $18 to $25 a week, and had not provided for his family for two months.

Card of Thanks.

We desire to express our thanks tp our neighbors and friends for their kindness shown to us during the sickness and death of our darling little Robert, and for the many pretty flowers which we received and for the comforting words from Brother Rhoades also for the singers and their beautiful songs. May God bless you all is the prayer of our hearts. Mrs. Lizzie Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lynam.

Tire Troubles Ended.

Tire troubles of automobilists are now at an end, in the opinion of James Dennis, of Cambridge City who has invented a tire which, he says, has all the good qualities of the pneumatic tubes to the elimination of all the objectionable features of the solid rubber tires. In tests the tire has satisfied experts, and Mr. Dennis is now engaged in the organization of a manufacturing company.

Hogs Have Cholera.

Hog cholera has developed in the herd of Clark Trail, east of Shirley, and already nine have died, and many more are sick. Mr. Trail has 0ighty-four head and the disease ^ill likely cause him a big loss.

Ample capital, backed by large resources, burglaryproof safe and ample burglary insurance courtesy always and counsel when asked for experienced and economical management granting of every reasonable accommodation honesty and fairness always.

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JOHN H. BINFORD, PRES. JOS. L. BINFORD, W. J. THOMAS, ASS'T. CASHIER

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TELLS OF HIS VISIT TO STATE SOLDIERS' H/OME.

Dr. W. R. King Attended Graduating Exercises For Nurses of the Home Training School "Editor Reporter: "I returned home a few days ago from a visit to the Indiana State Soldiers' Home, where I went to be present at the graduating exercises of eight nurses of the training school. These nurses began their course during my administration as surgeon in the hospital, so you will know that I was an interested visitor at the exercises. The one reputation which I prize more highly than all others while in that institution is that I never spoke an unkind word to a nurse in the training school, and a more loyal class of nurses never worked in a hospital than they are. It seemed at all times that their chief aim and delight was to do their best. They worked to the very limit of endurance. No one but those who have had experience can conceive the amount of hard work in that hospital. There are so many helpless old people, many of whom are very homesick, pining to be back again at their old homes, surrounded by old home scenes and friends. Some are in a dying condition all the time, many of them suffering from senile dementia, and others suffering, from all kinds of diseases. These conditions make the hospital work one of the most trying positions to fill anyone can conceive of. "My visit in the main w7as a very pleasant one, but in some ways a sad one. As I passed through the hospital I was greeted on all sides by many who still survive who were there when I was connected with the institution, but what havoc disease has wrought in one year's time. Many new faces are there. Many of them occupy the rooms and places of those I had known so well, but who had answered the last roll call. Then many who w?ere in fair condition one year ago are now lingering on the brink of the Great Beyond. "I was entertained while thereat the home of Col. D. B. Kehler, who had been the adjutant of the Home for many years, but was promoted to fill out the unexpired term of Col. Haggard, who died about one year ago, and on the day of my arrivai. the trustees of the institution re-elected him for a full t.-rm of three years. He has always been a very popular officer, and everyone was delighted that he was re-elected. "I doubt if there has ever been more contentment in the Home, so far as officers are concerned than at this time. The medical staff, I am sure, never was better. The members are young, active men, up-to-date in every way. They were all my assistants'when I wTas connected with the institution, so I feel that I am competent to judge and I am proud of them and the record they are making, and the esteem in which they are held by the members.

The Indiana State Soldiers' Home is a grand institution, and the state has a right to be proud of it, but there is one stigma which overhangs it, and that is that it is classed by the law as a charitable institution. This fact is especially odius when that charity says to the officers of the Home, "You are feeding the people of your institution too much." "Mr. Editor, that charity smacks somewhat to me of the charity that overhung the unfortunates. of Andersonville prison during the Civil War, and some of those same unfortunates are members of the Indiana State Soldiers' Home. "Think you, that men who suffered the awful pangs of hunger in that horrid prison should ever be denied all they desire to eat, by the State of Indiana? The state that was presided over during the dark days of the Rebellion by the great soldier friend, Oliver P. Morton. I am proud to say that the officers in charge of the institution treated the suggestion with the utmost contempt, and the very best provisions the market affords are provided for the members of the Home. Warren R. King."

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CANDIDATES' ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sheriff.

James L. Vail, of Vernon township, has authorized the announcement of his name as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Hancock county, subject to the decision of the Republican county convention, hereafter to be held. Your support is earnestly solicited.

James W. Hiday, of Vernon township, authorizes the announcement of his name as a candidate for Sheriff of Hancock county, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention to be hereafter held. Your support is respectfully solicited.

FOUNTAINTOYVN.

Wm. Wright attended the funeral of his mother near Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday.

Miss Muriel Rafferfy was a passenger to Indianapolis Wednesday. Otto Snider and wife were at Greenfield Thursday.

Mrs. Dr. Bentley, of Morristown, was the guest of Mrs. Earl Boles Thursday.

Mrs. Martha. Johnson, of Piqua, Ohio, visited her brother, George Campbell, Sunday.

George Vernon, cf Indianapolis, was here for a few hours Thursday. Mrs. Level Jeffries, of. Greenfield, attended the funeral of George Campbell Friday.

Mrs. George Smith, of Rushville, spent Friday with her parents at this place.

Mrs. Rigdon and daughter, Miss Blanche, were shopping at Indianapolis Saturday.

Miss Margaret Smith was a passenger to Indianapolis Monday. On account of the engine going "dead"' a freight train stopped just east of here several hours Tuesday and delayed the evening passenger train for some time. The passenger engine pulled the freight to a siding in order to proceed.

Reception For High School. Rev. and Mrs. Dawson, of Maxwell, entertained the members of the high school a.t the parsonage Friday evening. The evening was spent in contests, the prizes being won by Nella Webb, Emery Shepler, Pauline Burk and Ruth West. Among those present were Misses Chloe Shepler, Nella Webb, Pauline Burk, Merl Dobbins, Doris Young, Ada Eakin, Thelma Bussell,

Mabel Burc.h, Grace Braddock and Ruth West Messrs. Jesse Dobbins, Oriel Wiggins, Emery Shepler, Earl Haywood, Claude Roberts, Avery Leary and Robert Jackson. Refreshments w^ere served, and all departed declaring the host and hostess royal entertainers.

One Who Was There.

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CIRCUIT COURT ALLOWANCES.

List of allowances made by the Judge of the Hancock Circuit Court for the February Term, 1912: —Petit Jury— Samuel Shelby $ .12.50 John M. Ashcraft 20. Lee Fuller I i. iO John W. Wales 21.00 Albert Williams 8.90 Wilson Romack 2.80 E. A. Hen by 26.10 Charles J. Kennedy 7.50 Chas. McKinzie G.50 W. H. Thompson 6J0 Wm. G. Lantz 20.90 C. A. Arnold lo.iO Chas. A. Jackson 34.70 G. W. Scott 2.40 B. P. Cat-t 2.50 W. V. Davis 2.60 Charles Blue 3.00 N. F. Loudenback 3.00 Peter L. Fields 3.30 Henry Boucher 3.60 W. A. Pilkenton 3.60 F. E. White 2.90 C. Hoff 3.20 Wm. Ostermeier 3.30 Wm. W. Apple 3.20 Oscar E. Apple 3.20 Taylor B. Thomas 3.20 A. C. Randall 2.50 E. S. Parker 2.80 Robert Riger 3.80 Chas. F. Hayes 3.20 Morton A1 lender 2.50 Theo Hargrove 2.80 James Herr 6.80 L. H. Merlau 51.00 James E. Barnard 2.40 John Manche 2.70 John McNamara 2.10 Almond Wickard 2.20 J. Q. Johnson 14.20 John L. Hull 57.20 James P. Moore 26.50 James Pratt 12.50 James M. Cooper 12.10 Chas. O. Eakin 12.80 Stephen D. Jackson 10.10 Lewis Hagan 10.40 Herman H. Meier 3.00 Clyde Kerns 3.20 J. J. Pratt 2.10 Noah W. Wilson 30.80 James W. Deshong 56.90 L. C. Barrett 8.40 Charles L. Scott 48.50 James W. Downing 55.50 Wm. D. Dismore 50.60 Alva A. Apple 51.00 Edward Wilson 8.10 Carl Emery 57.60 Henry Chandler 6.60 —Bailiffs— Moses C. Wood, per diem... 102.00 Jesse Cox, sheriff, per diem.. 102.00 C. E. Walker, court rep 240.00 122.00

Minos T. Handy —Grand Jury— Herman H. Meier W. O. Hawkins James A. White Lawson F. Rash Harvey Collins Chas. S. Gant, bailiff 7.50 James H. Cox, bailiff 4.00 —General— M. C. Wood, bar docket... Earl Sample, special judge. John L. Fry, jury com J. W. Walker, jury com... D. Cooper, typewriter desk. T. Trainer, jury board G. W. Shay, jury board... Jacob Woessner. trans pris. Geo. T. Tindall, prob. officer P. E. Wendhale, trans. Van

5.00 4.40 4.40 5.20 5.40

15.00 5.00 2.00 12.00 42.00 6.50 9.75 2.52 6.00

Derrv 20.00 C. L. Tindall, assist, pros, in case of State vs. Martin

50.00

LAWRENCE WOOD. Auditor.

ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The following is a list of uncalled for letters remaining in the postoffice at Greenfield, April 18, 1912:

Mrs. Martha M. Jones. W. M. Jenkins. Mr. Sanford Jackson. Mrs. J. E. Kennedy. Pres. Ladies' Home Reading Club. Mr. Charles B. Stewart. Mrs. D. E. Ward. Persons calling for the above letters will please say "advertised.''

GEO. W. DUNCAN, P.

Claude Parish, of near New Palestine, who was severely injured by being kicked by a horse about six weeks ago, is getting along nicely.

He is the 17 year old son of P. F. Parish, and his leg was broken in three places and his skull fractured, it will be remembered, and his condition was very critical when he was taken to the St. Vincent Hospital. After five weeks he was taken home and it now seems that he is on the sure road to recovery.

Glass Partition in Car. The Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company have put on a car with a glass partition between the motorman's compartment and the smoker. This is the first trial of glass partitions and if it proves satisfactory all their cars will be changed accordingly.

W. R. McKown sold 100 car loads of brick. for the Brooklyn Brick Company Monday for early delivery. ,,

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B. F. Keiths' Theater. Charlotte Parry, undoubtedly the greatest Protean actress in the world, whose clover work will be remembered by local theatergoers, in "The Comstock Mystery," will be the headline attraction at B. F. Keith's theater, offering her new sketch "Tnto the Light." which has won unstinted praise from competent eastern critics, during the week of April 21st.

Another feature which lias created unusual interest in variety this year, will be the appearance of "Juliet'? an attractive young woman whose identity is wrapped in mystery. James F. Doran and Ida Lenharr are established favorites who will offer their new psychic travesty called "Some Mind Reader." Fifteen minutes of boisterous musical comedy will be offered by Mr. and Mrs. Jack McGreevy as "The Village Fiddler and the Country Maid." An unusual dancing number is promised in the appearance of Mile. Sealby and Mons. Dulcos, w7ho will give a number of international terpsichorean novelties. Patsy Doyle is an eccentric story teller, whose style and material are individual and exclusive. Stuart and Kelley, a Cohanesque couple, will open the show. As special features the Presidential Primary and B. F. Keith's telegraphic slides will be continued.

B. F. Keith's Theater will be open Sunday afternoon and evening with entertainment offered by professional singers and entertainers, supplemented by displays of the latest imported motion views.

The state free employment bureau, with headquarters at the State House, at Indianapolis, has found employment for 7,682 persons since it was organized, about three years ago. There have been 13,517 applications for employment.

Another Danger of Tobacco. J. I. Farlow, of Rush county, has discovered another danger in the use of tobacco. He filled his pipe a few days ago and when he lighted it a terrific explosion occurred. A cartridge in the tobacco had been jammed into the pipe. Mr. Farlow was painfully hurt about the face

United After Nineteen Years. Thomas Moore, of R-ush county, and his sister, Miss Loma Moore, of Colorado Springs, Colo., have been reunited at the brother's home after being separated for nineteen years.

GREENFIELD MARKET. These prices are correcved daily from quotations by the B. Bolt meat market, Currens and Grandison meat market, Thomas Nye, the poultry dealer New Milling Company, The Greenfield Milling Company, and the local grocers.

CATTLE

Steers [email protected] Stock Cattle [email protected] Heifers [email protected] Cows [email protected] Bulls [email protected] Canners and Cutters [email protected] Best Stockers 3.00@4,00 Cows and Calves [email protected] Veal Calves [email protected]

HOGS

Good to Best Heavy [email protected] Medium and Mixed [email protected] Choice Lights [email protected]

WHEAT

Wheat, per bushel $1.00 CORN New Corn, per bushel 73c

OATS AND RYE

Oats, per bushel 50c Rye, per bushel 70c Baled Timothy, per ton $23.00 Baled Mixed Hay 20.00 Baled Clover Hay 19.00 Timothy Hay, bulk 21.00 Mixed Hay, bulk 19.00 Clover Hay, bulk 17.00 Straw, bulk [email protected]

BACON AND LARD

Bacon 12@14c Country Hams 12%@15c Lard, per lb 11c

BUTTER AND EGGS

Eggs, per dozen 17@18c Butter, per lb 25@28c POULTRY Hens, lb 10c Turkeys, per lb 12c Geese, per lb. 6c Ducks, per lb. 10c

SELLING fRICES

Timothy Seed, per bushel. [email protected] CLOVER SEED. Alsike, per bushel $15.00, Big English, per bushel $12@14 Little Red, per bushel $14@16

Didn't Know It Was Loaded." Paul Doren, age 10 years, shot his brother, Russell, age 13 years, at Richmond Tuesday with a shot gun. The old story of "didn't know it was loaded" is responsible for the tragedy.

For Sale—Span or good 5-year-old mules, and two draft mares, one with spring colt. Garrett Duncan, R. R. 10, one mile north of Philadelphia. 17d2-wl