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IS II FERTILE FIELD KB SECRET ORDERS

New Order Crops Out in State Each Year, With End Not Yet in Sight Ancient Order of

The Sphinx, Also Lions.

The movement for the organization of secret societies is gaining each year, and Indiana seems to be a very fertile field as each year sees one or more new societies organized in Hoosierdom. The latest addition to the list is the Ancient Order of Sphinx, which has been organized at Fort Wayne. The lessons taught by the new fraternity are valor, justice and purity. The order is unique in that it is founded on the Sphinx, one of the mysterious wonders of the world. The Sphinx, consisting of an enormous figure, whose human head and lion body typified a union of intelligence and strength, was hewn from the natural rock of the edge of a plateau facing the east on the desert sands near Gizeh, Egypt. It was planned and formed by Chephreen, the son of Sheops, the builder of the first pyramid, about 2,800 years before the Christian era, as an abiding place for his soul, as a resting place for his body and as a monument to his reign.

The many orders are well represented in this city and county, the latest here being the Royal Order of Lions, which is being organized in this city now.

WHS A LIVELY GAME AND GREENFIELD WON

Score Was 4 to 10 in Favor of Gray Brothers' Team—Cambridge City Has Good Players.

The base ball game Sunday between the Gray Brothers' team of this city, and the Grays, of Cambridge City, was one of the liveliest of the season and was witnessed by a large number of people. The score was 4 to 10 in favor of the Greenfield team. Cambridge City has some good players, but the Greenfield team has been strengthened since the recent game at Cambridge City, when the team of that city carried off the big end of the score. Gray Brothers expect to play the Richmond or Muncie team next Sunday, but complete arrangements have not been made.

Trust Company Begins Business. The new trust company began business in the New block at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. Their quarters are not completed yet, but the front part of their room is now ready. Andrew J. New is behind the treasurer's window. Charles Barrett, of Indianapolis, is president of the company.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Casson and children spent Sunday at Rushville the guests of her sister. Mrs. Casson and children will remain over the Fourth.

Charles Mulvihill and Van Tuyl Oxer were entertained at dinner Sunday by Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Dailey, at their home east of town.

James M. Duncan, of Mohawk, who suffered a stroke of paralysis several weeks ago, has recovered sufficiently to be able to be out again.

Misses Emma and Laura Parnell, of R. R. 1, entertained at dinner on Thursday, Mrs. Iduna Barrett, Mrs. Wm. Thompson, of this city, and Mrs. Pierce Kauble, of R. R. 1.

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Rohrman and children, of Indianapolis, spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Reynolds, on R. R. 8.

The Greenfield delegates and visitors to the State Sunday School convention at Richmond, returned home Friday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Crider have

returned from Evansville, after

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two weeks there.

Mrs. Clyde Townsend has returned from a week's visit with her mother, Mrs. Bryant, at Irvington. VA

JVfp. and Mrs. Irving Tyner"an& daughter spent Sunday at Irvington, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Binford.

Mr. and Mrs. James Liming, of Muncie, are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. George Knight.

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PICNIC SEASON HERE? WARNED TO BEWARE

Health Cranks Give Set of Rules To Be Observed That Would Certainly Take all the Picnic

Out of Anybody.

"Beware Picnics." This is the latest decree issued by the health departments in certain cities of this and other states, and strikes at the very root of all cherished pastimes. One of the decrees advises people to flee from the country picnic as they would from a plague. The reasons given are as follows: There is danger in picnics and summer outings are conducted under grossly unsanitary conditions, and practically all are a menace to health and life of those who patronize them. If anybody wants to enjoy a picnic, the following advice of a health official will be of benefit:

First, pick out a high and dry location upon which the sun shines a portion of the day.

Second, sit upon cushions or robes—never on the bare ground. Third, do not lie upon the ground in the shade for any length of time.

Fourth, see that your food supplies are pure when you leave home and keep them in that condition when you are in the country.

Fifth, if you know the spot you have chosen has no pure drinking water available, carry a quantity with you if you must use water you suspect is not pure, boil it-

Regard for these simple rules while one is in the country will assure your return to the city in perfect health and there will be no after effects of your outing.

Married at the Manse.

Frederick Berry and Lillian Charles were married Saturday evening at 8:30 o'clock at the Presbyterian Manse by Rev. Joseph B. Williamson. Mr. Berry is a valued employe of the T. H. I. & E. Company, and his bride has been the stenographer for the law firm of Cook & Cook for several years. They will be at home on Grant street, where Mr. Berry's house was already furnished.

It Has Rained in Streaks. The rains this season have not fallen on all alike. It has come in streaks, some places getting too much and some not enough. Linza Walker, of Jackson township, drove to Raleigh a few days ago and said he drove through three or four dry and wet sections on the way. At Raleigh he said they have had no rain worth while since April, and that the ground is baked and cracked open.

Children's Day Exercises. The children's day exercises at the Christian church Sunday evening were unusually interesting, as the program of music, songs and declamations had been well prepared. On account of the hard rain at the church hour, the attendance was not as large as it would otherwise have been.

Lost Pocket Book and Money. The dark red pocket book containing $2.80, advertised in this paper as lost, has not been returned. It was lost by a little fatherless boy, who has to help earn his living by work, and the lost money represented his savings since school closed. This pocketbook and money was found by some one. Surely they would not want to keep the property under such circumstances. Id2-w

Eden Team Defeats Kennard. The Eden ball team defeated the Kennard team by the score of 3 to 23 Sunday. The Eden team is the only one in Hancock county that has not been defeated this season. They will play the Marott team on Sunday at 2:30 p. m.

Elmer T. Swope returned Saturday night from Baltimore, where he has been attending the Democratic National Convention for a week as one of the assistant ser-geants-at-arms.

Helen Schneider returned home Sunday afternoon from a three weeks' visit with Mr. and Mrs. Pearl DeVore of Franklin, Ind.

C. McNamara and family, of New Palestine, were the guests of John McNamara and family Sunday

Dri and Mrs. Collins, of Mohawk, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Curry Sunday.

Mrs. Clarence Barrett, of Indianapolis, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson on R. R. 5.

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Reunion of Greenfield People Who Wintered in South in 1910, in Honor of the Wedding Anniversary of Rev. Dailey's Parents.

The home of Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Dailey, east of the city, was the scene of a pleasant reunion of some of the Greenfield people who spent the winter of 1910 in St. Petersburg, Fla. The occasion was in honor of Rev. Dailey's father and mother, who are visiting them, as a celebration of their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary. These good old people are living on the same farm where they first went to housekeeping fifty-four years ago. never having moved from it in all those years.

Those present to enjoy the meeting with Rev. Dailey and wife were Dr. and Mrs. Dailey, of Clinton and granddaughter, Miss Lila Bradfield Capt. and Mrs. Henry Snow, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Larrimore, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Barclay Binford, Mrs. Elmer E. Stoner, Mrs. W. H. H. Rock and Mrs. Joshua Barrett.

Many interesting incidents of the winter were recalled and many big fish stories were retold by the doctor and Captain Snow. The only note of sadness was felt in the reminder that two of the number had been called since then to the home above. The hospitality of the Rev. Dailey home was made manifest in various ways during the afternoon. Delicious homemade ice cream, made from real Jersey cream, delicious cake and lemonade were served. A mulberry tree in the beautiful yard hung full of ripe berries, which furnished the dessert, as the friends assembled under it before their departure, late in the afternoon.

This home in the country speaks in unmistakable terms of the artistic taste and thrift of the good .people who own it. The father and mother of R.ev. Dailey are justly proud of their only son, and he, in turn, delights to honor them.

An Original Review.

The book reviewer who is compelled day after day to set forth the merits and demerits of current literature is often hard put for original methods of expression. The literary department of a Chicago paper has brought forth what might be called an "informal review" which is as original as it is pleasing. The following is a sample: "It's a dear little story, 'The Melting of Molly,'" smiled the assistant literary editor "fresh, colorful, wholesome. What do you know about the author, Maria Thompson Daviess?" "She hails from Tennessee, and wrote that other delightful little book, 'Miss Selina Lue,' and Maria Thompson Daviess is her maiden name." "The author of such a book naturally would be unmarried," mused the assistant literary editor. "I'd have known that almost without being told. And she's probably somewhere about 30. It takes a single woman of—of discretion to write so sweetly and simply about love and children." "How do you know all that?'* "Well, little girls are too shy to say what they think of such matters, while the happy wife and the mother seldom writes about her joys and glories. She lives them. And perhaps -for this very reason when she does write she seldom attains the half whimsical, half wistful, wholly alluring touch/ of the 'ungathered rose' whose family delights are but borrowed ones. "A married woman, for instance, would have made sweet Molly Carter far more sensible but less charming tiny Billy, 'slim and flowery, pink and dimply, and as mannish as his father, in funny little flashes,' might have been a bit more natural in speech with a married book mother, but you wouldn't have wanted to hug him half so much and a woman happily married simply couldn't have given that tragi-comic touch to Molly's terible trouble of the blue muslin frock that won't meet around the waist when the man who has loved and left its 17-year-old wearer promises adoring return. Besides, married women as a rule do not adore young widows, while as to the joyous pairing off of Molly's various lovers—oh, of course, the book was written by ah unmarried woman, successfuly free from her teens 1" '*!. ki. {$&

You seem very sure, hazarded the head of the .department. "Did you say that you "No, I didn't," interrupted the Assistant hastily. "I didn't say any-

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ST. PETERSBRR6 DAY RaD AT DAIIiY HOME

thing about it. A woman's age is sacred to her mother and her Maker, and the least worldly wise of the former usually knows enough to carry out the kindly reserve of the latter in that direction. But you know how fond I am of children and flowers—did I say that Molly's garden is as charming and lovable and—unmarried—as Molly herself or the good Dr. John whose love spells heaven to her? And I enjoyed reading the story so much that I forgot it was all in the day's work." The Bobbs-Merrill Company, June, 1912. d-w

FORTVILLE MAN GETS A TASTE OF NOTORIETY.

Lee D. Olvey Attending His First National Convention Finds It Very Interesting.

Among the Indiana people mentioned by W. H. Blodget, of the Indianapolis News, at the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore is Lee D. Olvey, of Fortville. Mr. Blodget says:

An interested visitor to Indiana headquarters is Lee D. Olvey, of Fortville. Mr. Olvey has a fme 600 acre farm, and in addition supports a church, paying all expenses, including the pastor's salary. He is 72 years old and this is his first national convention. "I thought that if I ever was going to see a national convention I had better begin pretty soon," said Mr. Olvey. "It is quite interesting to me, but I suppose it's on old story to the big crowd around here.'

Kuhn on "Puppy Love." What he termed "puppy love" was declared to be the worst enemy of the boy of 14 as he finishes the grades of the common school by the Rev. Thomas H. Kuhn, of Indianapolis, in his address at the commencement exercises of the Allen county common schools. "It is at this age," said Mr. Kuhn, "that the boy usually tells his parents that he will not pursue further educational lines, but will go right out and get a job—and it is right here that the parents are fooled. They believe the boy is intensely in earnest to begin the practical things of life, but if they could only get the boy to confess, he would tell of some girl with whom he had finished school, and whom he is 'sweet on,' and his true reason for going out and finding a job is that he may earn money so that he may buy the girl flowers and candy, and do as he has seen others who were much oldep and much wealthier do. They have an idea that they must lavish flowers and candy on that girl above all other things."

Bass in Streams.

George W. Miles, commissioner of fisheries and game, is placing in Indiana streams approximately 3,000 small-mouth bass a day. His deputies have dumped a consignment in the streams near North Vernon, and a consignment was placed in the water near Shelbyville. The deputies are placing fish fc't Rushville and Connersville. The fish are being taken from the Riverside hatchery. A new hatchery, completed recently at Brookville, is now supplying fish for neighboring streams.

Spiritualists' Meeting Opens in July The Indiana Spiritualist Association will open its thirty-second annual camp meeting at Chesterfield, July 19th, and it will continue until August 25th. T. W. Smith, of Anderson, is president of the association Mabel Riffe, secretary, and 'Henry Bronnenberg, treasurer.

Among the speakers at the meeting will be Matilda Grunewald, of Louisville Ky. Mrs. Lina Shaunbarger, of New Orleans Rev. B. F. Austin, of Rochester, N. Y. Sarah Crossfield, Muncie Anna Throndsen, Indianapolis Kate Richards O'Hare, St. Louis Thomas Grimshaw, Seattle, Wash. Marion Carpenter, Detroit Bruce Calvert, of Griffin, Ind. Willard Hull, of Chicago.

Cut Throat on Child's Grave. William Stafford, 40. years old, of Shelbyville, tried to commit suicide Wednesday by cutting his throat while lying on the grave of his little daughter at Forest Hill cemetery. Family troubles are said to have been the cause for the attempt at suicide. Stafford will probably live.

The death at Indianapolis of Timothy Miller is mourned by the Greenfield railway mail clerks, as he wap their examiner and was held in the highest esteem. He was the father of Elizabeth Miller, author of "The Yoke," one of the most popular books of recent years.

Samuel Millikan, Jr., of Kansas, arrived Saturday evening and is spending a few days at his old home in this city*

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DISEASES AND INSECTS

Another Phase of Real Scouting— They Will Be Taught How to detect and Cure Diseases of the Many Trees.

The Boy Scouts of America are doing a piece of real and extremely useful scouting. They are now searching for trees that are afflicted with disease or insects. This work was started in Pennsylvania, where a disease is destroying thousands of chestnut trees. The boys have been of great help to the Forestry Department in detecting this disease and reporting the trees afflicted to -the Department of Forestry.

This work afforded an excellent piece of scouting for boys, and the result has been that boy scouts all over the country have written to James E. West, chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of America, asking for information about other diseases and insects that affect the trees and shrubs. They wanted something definite to look for in their hikes through the woods and in their camping expeditions. As a result George H. Merritt, one of the secretaries employed by the Boy Scouts is compiling, with the aid of Gifford Pinchot, former United States Forester and member of the National Council of the Boy Scouts, a chapter for the manual and for the scoutmasters, outlining different diseases of the most significant trees. Boys also are being taught what diseases of the trees and what plants are likely to prove harmful to themselves. "Among the most destructive insects," said Merritt. "must be enumerated the bark lice or scale insects, plant lice, wood borers, coddling moth, San Jose scale, tent caterpillars, canker worms, tussock moths, leaf-mining beetles, gallforming insects, chinch bugs, army worms, weevils and locusts. Aside from this army of destruction to forest and orchard alike, and to the lesser plants, there are also causes of loss due to such agents as fungus, animals, weather conditions, etc. The Boy Scouts, I think, can be of material service in doing real scouting in locating the cases of blighted trees or of those badly affected by insects, feeders and parasites. The real information as to methods of such work will depend largely upon local or sectional conditions, and vary also with the cause, but with a little care all of this can be worked out into a very good department of scout work. Most information as to exact causes kinds of disease and insect trouble, methods of treatment, location, etc. will come from the various districts of the United States where government entomologists and botanists have been stationed."

ATTENDED THE BANKERS' ANNUAL ASSOCIATION.

Local Men On the Program Address By W. A. Hough— Those Who Attended.

The bankers of the state held their annual association meeting last evening at the German House at Indianapolis. Wm. A. Hough, of this city, delivered one of the addresses. Nathan C. Binford was chairman of the committee on arrangements.

The Capital State Bank was represented by Joseph L. Binford and Nathan C. Binford, the Greenfield Banking Co. by Wm. A. Hough, and the Citizens Bank by Geo. H. Cooper and W. B. Bottsford.

Farmers Cutting Wheat. Several farmers are now engarod in cutting wheat, where they were lucky enough to have any worth cutting. The wheat harvest arid threshing this year will be about the slimmest in a decade.

The Burning Question. Willie-r-Pop, what are ancestors? Father—Well, I'm one of yours— your grandad's another.

Willie—Oh But why is it that folks brag about them?

Roy D. Long, of Oklahoma City, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cash M. Curry. He is a brother of Mrs. Curry. He reports the wheat and oats crop, which is being harvested, as light. He says that the peach crop is good and they are now ripening.

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Dunham and little son, Grenie Waldo, spent Sunday at Philadelphia, the guests of Mrs. Dunham's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Cuijry and children.

John Frost has had his barn on R. R. 7, re-roofed.

SUICIDE AT RUSHVILLE

Man Left Note Every Word of Which Proved to Be True.

John Fletcher Conway, 66 years old, a well known insurance solicitor of this city, committed suicide last night by irowning in the pond at the Innis-Pearce furniture factory in West Seventh street. Mr. Conway's act appeared to have been well planned and he had been dead an hour or more before his body was found floating on the surface of the water.

A brief note, written on the back of an envelope and left on the bank beside his coat, was sufficient evidence of suicide. The note, although short and to the point, carried only one meaning and was true to every word, "I am in the pond" was the way in which Mr. Conway expressed his deed. The note was signed "J. F. Conway."— Rushville Republican.

Best Selling Books.

According ta» the foregoing lists, the six books (fiction) which have sold best in the order of demand during the month of June are:

A henpecked college professor has written a tragedy of the old Roman period, and he gets a chance to produce it when a strolling Shakespearean tragedian comes to town with a little band of players. The professor is overjoyed, and all the more so since his shrewish wife is out of town. For if she were there she would oppose the performance, since she is dead against anything that appeals to the professor and their two daughters. The play is put in rehearsal, and the knotty problem of presenting a drama of more than a dozen speaking parts with only five actors is attacked and solved after the manner of the old-time barnstormers.

But just before the performance is to be given the professor's wife unexpectedly returns. The professor, one of his daughters and the daughter's husband, all of whom had planned a fme night of it, are in despair. But while they are in the depths of tjieir woes, the daughter discovers in a paper a' story that exactly fits their case. According to this story a man and his son-in-law who wished to get away from home, pretended to quarrel violently. Finally the old man seized his hat, and rushed in great apparent anger from the room. The son-in-law, as if conscience stricken, rushed after him to apologize, and the two stayed out as long as they pleased,

The professor, his son-in-law and his daughter resolve to try the plan and it works like a charm. After the two men have disappeared the young woman follows her husband to prevent trouble. All would have been well had the conspirators not forgotten to take with them the paper containing the story. The other daughter finds it and she and her mother suspect the truth at once. The remainder of the farce treats of the pursuit of the recreants by the enraged woman, and of their efforts to shield themselves from the torrents of her wrath.

Mr. and Mrs. William Jackson, of Green township, have purchased a nice Knight and Brinkerhoff piano of Arthur Moulden, with J. C. Foster.

Schuyler Hayes, of Cambridge City, spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hayes.

Mrs. James Walton and daughter, Lucile, were guest of friends at Indianapolis Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weimer and guest, Mrs. J. J. Black, of Union City, were the guests of relatives at Indianapolis Sunday.

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1. The Harvester. StrattonPorter. (Doubleday, Page Co.) $1.35 158 2. Fran. Ellis. (Bobbs Merrill). $1.25 134 3. A Hoosier Chronicle. Nicholson. (Houghton, Mifflin.) $1.40 127 4. The Street Called Straight.

Anon. (Harper) $1.35 113 5. The Melting of Molly. Daviess. (Bobbs Merrill.) $1.00 109 6. The Man in Lonely Land.

Bosher. (Harper.) $1.00.. 91 The above is taken from the July Bookman, published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York City. d-w

MURAT THEATER

"A Night Off," one of the most popular of .the long list of uproarious farces produced by the late Augustin Daly, will be presented by the Murat Theater Stock Company at Indianapolis the entire week of July 1st. "A Night Off" was adapted from a popular German farce and was even more successful in this country than in its native land, owing to Mr. Daly's remarkable workmanship.