Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 18 July 1912 — Page 2

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The above four S's are the four corner stones upon which our bank stands, and they stand for STRENGTH,

Rev. H. W. Bobbins and John A. Anderson Renew Acquaintanceship After Many Years—Tell of

Land Improvements.

Rev. H. W. Robbins, of Gwynneville, pastor of the U. B. church in Greenfield, and John A. Anderson, of R. R. 1, near Shiloh church, met at The Reporter office Saturday. They knew each other when boys at Gwynneville many years ago, but had drifted apart and had not met each other since becoming grown.

When introduced, they had a long talk about early days around the old Gwynne saw mill, before the town of Gwynneville was located. In those days the land, they said, in that locality could be bought for any price. Mr. Anderson said he could remember when logs could be floated around in the swamps where Gwynneville is now located. He hauled saw logs in that section when a boy, and worked on the construction of the C. H. & D. railroad from Morristown to Hamilton, 0. Rev. Robbins said that that swamp land was now worth from $175 to $200 per acre.

SOLIDITY, STABILITY, SECURITY.

The bank that has these oorner stones should have your account. If you are not doing business with us, why not begin today

THE CITIZENS' BANK

WERE BOYS TOGETHER MET IT IS OFFICE

FOUNDED 1874

THEY DON'T HAVE TO STOP WHERE DOGS BARK AND RITE.

Mail men are not compelled to deliver mail at homes where fierce or dangerous dogs are harbored, according to a dispatch from Washington, which says: "Carriers are not required to deliver mail at residences where vicious dogs are permitted to run at lage. Persons keeping such dogs must call at the postoffice for their mail."

This paragraph in the regulations will be strictly applied from now on, and the owners of dags must either put them on a diet or keep them locked up if they want mail delivered at their homes.

The Old Common Potato

Rev. John M. Thompson, of Tipton, who suffered a stroke of paralysis several weeks ago, is slowly improving in some respects. He is regaining his power of speech, and his vision is also improving.

(Private Car Excursion July 23)

THAT THE YOUNG MAN of today has not as good opportunities as those of thirty years ago is the opinion of many. Every business now requires more capital to start and to operate: independent operation in many kinds of manufacturing and merchandising is practically prevented by trusts and monopolies. Young men flock to th.© crowded cities to eke out & poor existence.

DO YOU WANT TO HEAR about an opportunity, while common enough o0 or 40 years ago, can now be found only in one place? It is an opportunity to buy A No. 1 agricultural land within 170 miles of Chicago for $17.00 per acre, on any 40 of which you can establish yourself in a farming business that will produce abetter income than 9 out of 10 professional men are able to earn. GET THE STORY OF HOW I AM

able to make you such an offer at this late day. Look into the history of the matter—a 38-page booklet free—send or call for it—learn where there is a hundredfold better future for you on the soil than on the crowded pavement. Just, for instance, take the old common potato. There is not an acre of my land that will not produce 100 to 300 bushels. Suppose you raise only 100 bushels to the acre and sold them as „low as 40 cents (last year they sold for 75 cents to $1). The crop from half your acres would pay back the cost of the entire land in a single season. I can give yoA a hundred instances and testimonials where it has been done and better. I can't begin to tell you in this short space what you ought to know about the carefully selected lands in Mason, Manistee and Lake counties, Michigan, which comprise the Swigart Tract.

THERE ARE 50,000 ACRES— —think of such a quantity of land to select from. It is in the center of Michigan's Fruit Belt. Do you know what that means? It means the best location and best land in the state for fruit growing, for all kinds of vegetables and for successful crops of clover, timothy, rye, oats, corn, buckwheat, wheat and vetch. Poultry and sheep do excedingly well and hogs and cattle thrive. STRIKING FEATURES about this spot of earth that I want you to hear about are: Wonderfully, pure water, temperate climate, pretty trout streams and inland lakes full of gamey fish, gently rolling to level and well drained lay of lands, many springs, a plentiful rainfall, all making for a vigorous and healthy people.

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A BUSINESS CHANCE—IS THAT what you are looking for? Want to better yourself? Then you can't undertake anything more certain. Locate here where living is pleasant make yourself felt as a citizen in a lixf^ progressive community where hammers and saws are busy on new settlers' houses, barns and

The family of M. H. Gant, who have been at Indianapolis for a few months, are expecting to return to their home in this city in a few days. Rosalind Gant, who was taking treatment in that city, is much improved.

Harold Winslow spent Thursday night in the country with Mr. and Mrs. Hays Duncan, southeast of the city.

fences, where new towns are growing up, new roads being build, and where all are working together in the upbuilding of the district. It has a good start now. No 40 acres is over 5 miles from some railroad station there are schools, churches, telephones and many successful farmers, and now electric light and power are being added by seven great electric power dams that are being build in the center of the tract. Transportation of 4 railroads and several' lake steamship lines put products on Chicago, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids and Detroit markets in one night's ride, and 30,000 consumers in Ludington and Manistee, on the edge of the tract, make these towns first-class local markets. A WORD AROUT THE SWIGART proposition. It is undoubtedly the most liberal one offered. The terms are $10 to $50 down and $5 to $10 per month on 40 acres, or 5 per cent for all cash. While buying the land, if you should die, it will be deeded to your family free from any further payments. If you have anyone dependent upon you, you and they will appreciate this protection. Remember you are dealing direct with the owner of the land. Ask the First National Bank of Chicago as to my financial standing I will give you every assistance to make a thorough investigation. MY NEXT EXCURSION LEAVES our Chicago offices at 11:30 a. m. Tuesday, July 23. A Special Pullman car will be attached to the Pere Marquette train, as usual, for the exclusive use of/)ur party no extra charge. You are back in Chicago at 7 a. m. either Thursday or Friday following, being absent only one oj two days, as you prefer. Train passed through Michigan

Col. J. E. Frost, Greenfield,-Indiana

City (P. M. depot only) at 1:25 p. m. Round trip rate from Chicago or Michigan City to Wellston, Mich., $6. Get tickets after boarding our car. Fare rebated on your purchase. GOOCT accommodations for both men and women at Michigan headquarters. Teams and guides free. I

ROAD IMPROVEMENT ELI lMCAUGHT I

PROPOSITIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION TO PAVE ROADS IN MANY DIFFERENT PLAGES

IN INDIANA AT GREAT COST PER MILE/

GREENFIELD TO INDIANAPOLIS

Paved National Road is Possibility in the Not Distant Future, in the Opinion of a Reliever in Good

Roads—The Cost Would Re Forgotten When the Great Work is Completed Would Attract Desirable Citizens.

The growth of improved road sentiment is wonderful. This fact is emphasized by the work being done, and propositions now being considered in the way of macadamizing and paving highways. The Richmond and Liberty road, three miles outside of Richmond, in Wayne township, Wayne county, is being macadamized, and two miles of the road is supplied with cement curb and three-foot gutter.

Arrangements are being made to pave a road in Marion county from Indianapolis to Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and an effort is being made to build a paved road by taxation from Indianapolis to Noblesville. As has often been said, the time will come when the main county highways will be as good as the city streets. One of the first interstate great public highway improvement schemes will be the improvement of the National Road from New York to St. Louis, and perhaps entirely across the continent. This question has been discussed for years, and the time will come when it will be realized. Nothing would do Greenfield so much good in this day of automobiles, crowded cities and country homes for city people as a paved highway between Irvington and Greenfield. Many people now living in Indianapolis, and doing business in that city, would come to Greenfitld to live, and the greater part of the year would drive back and forth in a machine. Greenfield, with its modern improvements of every kind, would appeal to a very desirable class of Indianapolis business men as a quiet and attractive place to reside, make their homes and rear their families. Nothing would do more to induce them to come to Greenfield than such a highway. The main obstacle to such improvements is the cost. In Wayne county the three miles of road is costing an average of about $1^,000 per mile. It would cost perhaps a quarter of a million dollars to pave the National Road from Greenfield to Irvington. To the average citizen that fact is enough in itself to make such an improvement an impossibility.

Although the amount seems appalling, the time will come when the improvement will be made, and when it is made, the public will wonder why it was not done sooner.

Believer in Good Roads.

DOG DAYS NOT SO NAMED RECAUSE DOGS GO MAD.

Many Have An Erroneous Idea This Season, Which is Now At Hand, Which Leads

To Useless Worry.

With the coming of July, especially if the weather happens to be very warm, many people talk of the dog days and begin to be uneasy about danger for themselves and friends from mad dogs. In a great many places throughout the country boards of aldermen and councilmen, disturbed by this specter of the "dog days," pass resolutions and ordinances requiring the muzzling of dogs and other precautions against the canine peril that is supposed to be so threatening.

It can not be repealed too often, and we say it once more, the term "dOg days" has nothing to do with dogs. The very hot weather of July and August was called by the Romans Dies Canis, the days of the dog. By Vanis they meant the dog star Sirius, which is closest to the earth at this time. Popularly, the days of the dog star have come to be referred to terrestrial curs, but without any reason in the nature of things.

Dogs (16 not go mac! more at this time than at other seasons of the year. The records show that hydrophobia is a little more common in spring than in summer. Is is not time that we should end the ahnual attack of hysteria which inflicts so much needless cruelty on animals and often irritates them into viciousness that would not otherwise develop?

Eighty-Four Years Old, Rut Enjoys the Sport—Is At Summer/ Camp of His Son and Grandson On

Mississinewa River.

Ed C. Wolfe, who had been attending the Municipal League Convention at Hartford City a few days ago, stopped off at Marion a day and visited the big syndicate electric plant of Marion and Muncie, with which Ora Drischell, formerly of this city, is connected This is a great electric plant, and has a line between those cities which carries 35,000 volts and supplies quite a number of other cities and towns. He stayed over night with Mr. Drischell and George H. Gant at their summer cottages, eight miles north of Marion on the Mississinewa river. They have a beautiful location for their cottages on the banks of the river, near a mill. They have long leases on the grounds and have arranged for water power which supplies them with light for their cottages and grounds. The families spend the whole summer at their cottages, and the men run out in the evening in their machines and back in the morning. The river furnishes good fishing.

Eli R. Gant, of this city, father of George Gant and grandfather of Mr. Drischell, is spending a few weeks a£ the cottage and is enjoying the sport of fishing very much, Notwithstanding the fact that he is 84 years old, he is an' expert angler, having fished in Sugar Creek in this county for more than sixty years. A few mornings ago he pulled out a nice 10-pound fish and was much pleased with the catch. That kind of a catch would do honor to Capt. Snow, Dr. Larimore or Tom Morgan.

THE INDIAN CHIEF ENTERTAINS BOYS

Unlocks Many Secrets of the Trail and Camp Life For Roy Scouts —Will Return in a Month.

Red Fox, chief of the Sioux, and son of Black Eagle, was a very interesting companion for the Boy Scouts, Troop No. 1, on the hike Friday. The echo of the war cry of his tribe made the hearts of many a lad thrill, and the imaginative picture of what a hundred in chorus would sound like! He told many incidents of life with the people and at the school at Carlisle, Pa.

Chief Red Fox is a Christian and a gentleman. He showed the Scouts some of the secrets of trailing, signals by fire and smoke, the kinds of wood to use for fires and many other things known only by professional Scouts. He dined in the evening with the scout master, Mr. Williamson. He will be here again next month. The chief goes to his home in the Rosebud Reservation once a year.

The farmers have begun to cut their oats, and it is a big job, as the oats are flat on the ground in numerous fields. John Frost has thirteen acres on his farm, two miles northeast of the city, on which Thomas Hawkins is a tenant, and they began cutting the crop Friday. They are compelled to cut one way with a mower and put it up like hay, after it has gone through the curing process. This makes a great deal of extra work, but the crop is worth it as oats make splendid feed in the sheaf or as hay. Thejre are very few fields in this vicinity that can be cut with the binder, which means a shortage of shelled oats and a surplus of the cured oats. Much of the hay is down and will take extra work to handle.

Frank White, of Blue River township, who has just recently completed an elegant new barn, is now getting material to remodel his home. When finished it will be modern in every particular. Mr White is one of Blue River township's prosperous young farmers, and Mrs. White is the. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson, northeast of town.

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Brokaw have retjurned to their home at McCordsville, after a week's visit -with Mrs. A. S. Orr and family. $$

The Rushville grocers are investigating the union delivery system, with a view to installing it in their business.

Garden City

Moths of the Limberlost

By Gene Stratton-Portar

I ''HERE is no portion of the country which has been made more familiar to hundreds of thousands of reader than the Limberlost Swamps, that woodland and marsh which has br en the setting of Mrs. Porter's wonderful novels, "Freckles," "A Girl of the Limberlost," and "The Harvester."

It is about this very bit of Indiana that Mrs. Porter has written her new book, "Moths of the Limberlost," and it is the most unusual and interesting nature book ever imagined. It is a story of the "Moths" of the Limberlost which every reader of "A Girl of the Limberlost" will remember. Mrs. Porter pictures and describes the moths hunted by Elnora, and in many of the chapters there are the landscapes over which she hunted, much of the swamp, and the very bridge under which she was working to cut loose a cocoon when Philip came up the stream, fishing. There is also the log cabin in which Elnora lived. The text is scientific enough to give the name and the description of each moth, cocoon and caterpillar

1ED HUNG TIME IS NECESSARY WORK

Means Saving in Money and Health —Is As Necessary As the Swatting of the Flies Before the Weed-Seed Time

Weed cutting time is at hand and this is a very necessary work. While swatting the fly, the pesky weed should come in for its full share of censure, and be looked after before they begin to seed.

A recent government bulletin, directed particularly to farmers, calls attention to the tremendous waste occasioned by parasite weeds as they crowd and choke legitimate crops, rob the soil of sustenance, which belongs to grain, vegetables and fruits, and, maturing, tax the farmers thousands a year for freightage to market.

MOTHS

OP THE

LIMBERLOST

GENE STRATTON-PORTER

on these subjects are illustrated by reproductions of pinned, shrivelled, unnaturally placed dead moths. Every reproduction in this book is from living moths, posed naturally, in their proper environment, and colored from life. 24 beautifully colored illustrations from original and rare photographs, and more than 100 in black and white by the author. Net, $2.

SO.

By the Same Author

The Greatest Summer Novels

"Freckles**

"A Girl of the Limberlost" "The Harvester"

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You can't find three books anywhere of wider or more lasting appeal. They are charming, wholesome, out-door tales.

THEY ARE 3-POWER NOVELS

Read One and You'll Read All.

More than a million readers agree with us

Like a housefly, a weed is so easy to kill that few take the trouble to kill it. Flies and weeds thrive through the carelessness of their natural enemies. Both could be exterminated in a very few years if people would only take the trouble

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the remainder is a fascinating record of personal experiences in finding or raising the specimens. Fully half the book is of birds, flowers and the outdoors, described and pictured as only the author knows how.

One feature is notable. Almost all books

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to wage war on them. Flies are no longer having the care-free existence which once was their lot. Weeds may some day come into as bad repute. Neither has an excuse for existence and wider publicity of their evil propensities will eventually accomplish their expiration.

Swat the flies for health's sake* and kill the weeds for the pocketbook and health, for both will profit by their destruction.

Chicago, 111.

Not to the Bottom Yet. It seems that we are not to bottom of the tomato story yet. Amick had ripe tomatoes on the 8th of July Mr. Judkins on the 28th of June, and now Harvey Smith, oX Baldwin street, says Mr. Judkins was a week behind him. It appears now that tomatoes would be plentiful and cheap this year, although the present price of 7 cents a pound for shipped and 10 cents a pound for home grown tomatoes makes them considerable t)f a luxury at this time.

the Mr.

Mrs, Lavancha M. Snyder, of St. Joseph, Missouri, came Thursday for a 10 days visit with her sister, Mrs. Augusta M. Glass and mother, Mary Macy, after which she will' join her son and daughter at Detroit, Mich., where they are locating.