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

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Republican National Ticket

For President of the United States, WILLIAM H. TAFT. of Ohio.

For Vice President of U. S., JAMES S. SHERMAN. of New York.

If the present chaotic conditions produce a more rational basis of party politics, eliminating prejudice, bias, boodle and bosses, the results will be well worth all the costs.

Tom Taggart's resignation from the National Committee is a great joke. He s'imply rubbed it in on his enemies and closed their mouths from future criticism. Oh, you slick Tom, and you stupid reformers!

The Democratic party's record in Indiana is not such as to give assurance from a business standpoint to the voters of the state. If it has been economical, it is an extravagant economy—the kind of economy that expends all the money and increases the indebtedness.

This is a good year for the Republican party to come out strong, candidly and unequivocally for its principles. We think there is no occasion for time-serving policies. There is nothing to lose. There never was a better time for a straight fight for County Local Option.

It matters not what a man's views may be on tariff or money questions, when it comes to the selection of a county officer. What the voters of Hancock county want in local affairs is honest, capable, trustworthy men, who will perform the duties of their offices faithfully.

There is no reason why men who are candidates for local offices should not make their campaign strictly on their personal merits. The question whether they are in favor of free-trade, protective tariff, gold standard or free silver, should have no weight. It should be simply a question of who will make the best officer.

"The die is cast." There is no compromise. You can not serve two masters. You can not be a Republican and a "National Progressive." You are commanded by Theodore Roosevelt to choose between marking under the Eagle or under the "Bull Moose." He does not want any Republican halfbreeds. He demands that Republicans forsake their party, give up all, and follow him.

There will be a general demand before the end of four years for some political party to relieve the country from a business calamity. The party that can do it will be the Republican. It now stands for the ideas which produce and retain prosperous conditions. Don't abandon it now. The time will come when the old Republican party, with the wonderful history for success, will be more popular than it ever was, and it will "come back" better and stronger than ever. Defeat this fall will only strengthen it.

There are many Republicans who say they are going to vote the Democratic national ticket this year. Party lines are weaker now than ever before, and this weakness is not confined to local matters. Thousands of Republicans throughout the country have indicated that they will vote for Woodrow Wilson for President. Is is possible that when Republicans, regardless of the principles of their party, will vote the Democratic national ticket, that Democrats in Hancock county, where they know they have bad candidates on their ticket, will refuse to scratch their ticket "for a good man on the Republican county ticket?

Many an admirer of Theodore Roosevelt will regret that he did ^not, as a private citizen, exercise .an influence over the people of the ^United States in such a way as to be entirely free from the charge of selfish ambition. Had he been a ^delegate in the National Convention, ^seeking to nominate some good progressive like Senator Cummins, of Iowa Senator LaFollette, of

Wisconsin, or Governor Hadley, of

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Missouri, he could have nominated any of those men. He could also have dictated a platform which would have been much more acceptable to the progressive members of the party than the one that was adopted. The difference between Mr. Bryan and Col. Roosevelt before their respective conventions was very marked.

There are a. great many people who think that there are no differences between the principles of the Republican and Democratic parties. We think there are, and with the chances so favorable for Democratic success in the coming national election, we are inclined to think the people of the United States will have a chance to see the difference between the practical application of the Democratic party principles as compared with those of the Republican. We have more personal interest in prosperous business conditions than we have in party success, and would be much pleased to see business conditions most prosperous, even under the administration of a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress. But, remembering the past, we are skeptical and will have to be shown.

We can not get away from the fact that all Theodore Roosevelt has been and is in public affairs is due to the Republican party. Great as his admirers within the Republican party may think him to be, surely they can not but feel that he owes some debt of gratitude to the organization which has kept him in public office almost constantly for a quarter of a century—half of his lifetime. Those public offices have included the Governorship of New York, the vice presidency and Presidency of the United States. What more could a party do for a man unless to put him in its highest office for life? That, however, is not in keeping with the spirit of our institutions. Is there any good reason why we should violate the sacred traditions of our institutions for the sake of a citizen who has already been honored more than any other American citizen heretofore?

James E. Watson, former Congressman from the Sixth district, is quoted recently as saying that this is a good year for an undertaker to be connected with the Republican ticket. That, of course, was one of Jim's jokes, but back of it is a real condition which can not be completely changed except by a Democratic national victory and administration. The Republican in these days, who is buoyant with hope of victory simply shows what a fool he is. There never was very much in mere pretention or appearance, and there is less now than ever before. We might just as well "fess up." The political sky of Republicanism is obscured by clouds. It is not due to the Democratic party, nor Democratic ideas, but it is because of the ambition of a few selfish leaders within the Republican party who would rather wreck it than sustain personal defeat.

SEVEN WERE POISONED.

Sister of Mrs. Jeff C. Patterson, of This City, Victim of Ptomaine Poisoning.

Mrs. Jeff C. Patterson was called to Zionsvi^le Sunday by the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Mary A. Klingler. Mrs. Klingler had been conducting a boarding house at that place and some of the prepared food which she had purchased caused ptomaine poisoning. She and six of her boarders were taken sick soon after eating. One of the boarders died and she is in the most serious condition of any of the six. It is not known certain in what part of the food the poison was. Some think it was in the canned corn, and others in the smoked sausage. The account of the poisoning was given in Sunday's Indianapolis Star.

Mr. and Mrs. Jasper A. Judkins left Sunday for Hammond, Indiana, where they will visit Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Watters for several days. Mrs. Watters and Mrs. Judkins are siters.

O. M. CURRY, V.-PRESR N. C. BINFORD. CASHIER

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.

REPURLICAN CALL

Pursuant to the direction of the Republican State Committee, the Republicans of the several townships of Hancock County are called to meet Friday, August 2, 1912, at 2 p. m., for the purpose of selecting delegates and alternates to the State Convention to meet in Tomlinson Hall in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, on Tuesday, the 6th day of August, 1912, at 10 a. m. You will also select delegates and alternates for the Congressional Convention, the date of said Convention to be hereafter published.

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.

You will also select Delegates and alternate for the County Convention, the date to be hereafter published.

Each township will be entitled to one delegate and one alternate for each 25 or fractional part of 25 votes cast in the general election in 1910. Township Delegates and

Alternates

Blue River 6 Brandywine 3 Brown 12 Buck Creek 5 Center 31 Green 5 Jackson 8 Sugar Creek 6 Vernon 12

Total 88

The meeting places for the several townships shall be as follows: Blue River—Township Hall.

Brandywine At Couden School House. Brown—Wilkinson.

Buck Creek—Mt. Comfort. Center—Farmers' Room, at Court House.

Jackson—Cleveland. Sugar Creek—New Palestine. Vernon—Fortville. Green—Eden.

ORA MYERS, Chairman.

J. V. ROSSER, Secretary. d!5-19-22-31-w-18~25

THE AUGUST WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION.

"What a Girl Expects of a Man," the subject of a lively article in the August Woman's Home Companion. Another interesting article in the same number is an account of how a girl can earn her way through college—at least partially, The author of the article is a girl who did the very thing she writes about.

A feature of considerable importance, as well as interesting, is an account of "The American Girl Out of Doors," in which J. Nilsen Laurvik reports the great development of athletics among women in America, especially in the colleges and boarding schools. "What Your Handwriting Tells" is a contribution full of fascinating information about character, as revealed by one's pen.

Fiction is contributed by Kathleen Norris, Mary Heaton Vorse, Fanny Heaslip Lea, Marion Hamilton Carter, Margaret Busbee Shipp and Beulah Marie Dix.

The regular departments of the Companion contain a mass of valuable suggestions to housekeepers, about the household, cooking, fashions and home decoration. Of course, a special point is made of suggestjions useful in the summer, specifically with rc ?,rd to vacation time—the best ways to prepare for vacations and the best ways to enjoy them. d-w

Samuel Roney, of Hidalgo, 111., who, with his wiife, has been visiting his old Hancock county friends for several days, is an ardent Taft Republican. He does not accept the progressive ideas unless they are Republican progressives.

Resolutions.

We, the committee appointed by Oronoco Council No. 59, Degree of Pocahontas, I. 0. R. M., beg leave to submit the following:'

The Shadow of Death has again fallen upon our tepee aiid removed from our midst another one of our sisters, Mrs. Nancy Wiggins.

Whereas, It has pleased the Great Spirit in His Infinite Wisdom, to remove from our midst this dear sister, who departed this life July 2, 1912, after a long and painful illness, a hand whose warm grasp we have felt is taken awray. A voice to which we have often listened is hushed in death. A chair is vacant in our tepee.

Whereas, We cannot understand why this shadow has fallen upon us, and while we deeply deplore our loss, we meekly bow to the will of Kishe Manitoo, who doeth all things well.

She has gone to the land of Pomemah, beyond the skies a place not made with hands eternal in the heavens, where partings are unknown.

Whereas, There comes to every member of our Council a sense of personal bereavement, when we remember the sweet smile and warm and kindly greeting she always extended to all whom she met.

Therefore, Be it Resolved, That in the death of Sister Wiggins, the children have lost a true and loving mother the Council a true and worthy member.

Resolved, That we ever cherish her memory, imitate her virtues, and extend to the sorrowing family our heartfelt sympathies in their sad hour of bereavement, and commend them to the Great Spirit, who alone can pour balm upon their sorrowing hearts.

Be it further resolved that our charter be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days in memory of our departed sister, and that a copy of these resolutions be presented to the children, and that they" be spread upon the records of our Council, and also a copy be presented to the papers for publication. Respectfully submitted, in F. F. and C. Ora Wheeler,

Fanny Keller, Mary Hooton,

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AMITY.

Mr. and Mrs. John McCord and daughter, Ruth, of McCordsville Claude Bock, Misses Freda Kentrup, Stella Snider and Mary Schutts visited Frank Welling and family Sunday.

Jesse Saville and wife, of Fortville Mrs. Minnie Scotten and daughter, Goldie, and Mrs. Eva Crump, visited Henry Hawkins and family Thursday.

Ethel Snider spent Sunday afternoon with Anna Snider. Oscar Willman visited Virgil Ostermeyer Sunday.

Mrs. Verna Ploenges visted her parents, Frank Welling and wife, Thursday afternoon.

Claude Hancock and family visited Charles Ostermeyer and family Sunday.

The social given by the,Y. P. C. E. Saturday evening was well attended, considering the condition of the weather.

Mrs. Louis Hawkins visited Henry Hawkins and family Friday afternoon.

Miss Etta Hawkins visited May Eastes, at Mt. Comfort Sunday. Ruth Helms, of Indianapolis, is spending a few days with Mrs. Fred Heller.

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Snider and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Shelby visited Anton King and wife Sunday.

Estel Meriau visited Mabel Bade Saturday night and Sunday. There will be Sunday school next Sunday at 9:30. Preaching at 10:30. The fourth quarterly conference will be held at No. 7 school house next Sunday evening. Rev. Hawkins will preach.

^F AIR VIEW.

We are having plenty of rain, but nevertheless, the farmers are busy. Carl and S. M. Louden motored through here Thursday.

Grace Ensminger is on the sick list, under the care of Dr. Mace, of New Palestine.

George Streng, of New Palestine, spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs. F. S. Streng.

O. R. Ferris and Tom Wicker took a load of stock to Indianapolis last week.

Uncle Seth Ferris spent Sunday with John Trimble, of near Free-

Ziba Copple and family spent last Sunday with Harry Miller and wife. Michael Streng and daughter spent Sunday with Andy Jacobiand wife.

Listen for the wedding bells. A. J. Ellington has gone to Jennings county to visit relatives and friends.

Mrs. Bert Drake spent one day last week with her mother, Mrs. G. W. Ferris.

Dr. F. S. Streng and wife and F.

P. Murnan and wife called on J. H. McQueeney and wife Sunday evening.

Edgar Miller has begun his new house. Nellie Williams spent Saturday afternoon with her sister, Mrs. Sade Webb.

G. A. Ferris called on William Wicker Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ferris and daughter, Juda, and little Carroll, spent Sunday with Tom Wicker.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, R. R. 1. Walter Miller and family spent Sunday with relatives neir Charlottesville.

Justus Binford was at Greenfield last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John Gray are the proud parents of a fine eight-pound boy baby, born Sunday evening. He will be known as John Carey.

Jesse West and family spent Sunday at Greenfield, the guests of relatives.

Miss Neva Beck returned home Saturday from Terre Haute, where she has been attending school.

Scott Ward and wife entertained relatives Saturday night and Sunday.

The thrashing company held a meeting at the Bash school house Monday night.

Mary and Virginia Gray spent Sunday night with Florence and Mary Miller.

William Powers and wife were shopping at Greenfield Saturday. Mrs. Ernest Bond and children were at Greenfield Wednesday.

Mrs. David Wile-oxen and daughter, Edna, spent last Friday afternoon with Mrs. J. L. West and children.

Amos Chapman and wife and little grandson, Howard Banta, of near Fountaintown, visited on this route last Thursday.

Real Estate Transfers.

James H. Parnell to Mary A. Parnell, 15 acres land, $1.00. Mary A. Parnell et al., to Ward F. Parnell, 35 acres land, $1.00.

Ward F. Parnell et al to James H. Parnell, 35 acres land, $1.00. John H. Garoin et al. to Ira M. Gollins et al., lot Fortville, $1,250.

Ozora B. Garit et al. to Viola B. Spencer, lot city, $1,100. Ozora B. Gant et al. to Anna Koin, lot city, $1,100.

Clara E. Scott et al., to Noah F. Loudenback et al., 40 acres land, $4,000.

Zerma Kinneman et al. to W. Dl Foreman et al., lot Fortville, $850. John M. Hall et al. to Wm. E. Inlow, 100 acres land, $20,000.

Walter W. McCole et al. to S. J. Offut, lot city and land, $800. S. J. Offutt to Walter W. McCole et al., lot city and land, $800.

The flies are here so are we— with a full line of leather and cord nets, at prices that will make you buy, if you need one at all. J. M. Havens & Co. 18dl-w2

GREENFIELD MARKET. These prices are corrected 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] 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, new, per bushel 85c CORN Corn, per bushel 65c

OATS AND RYE

Oats, new, per bushel 25c Rye, per bushel 60c HAY AND STRAW Baled timothy, per ton $12@16 Baled mixed hay 10@14 Baled Clover Hay, per ton $11.00 Timothy Hay, bulk, ton $11(5)12 Mixed hay/bulk $8 Clover hay, bulk 8 Straw, bulk 4

BACON AND LARD

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

BUTTER AND EGGS

Butter, per lb 19@23c Eggs, per dozen •. 16c POULTRY Spring Chickens, lb. 20c Hen's, per lb 7 9c Turkeys, per lb 10c Geese, per lb 6c Ducks, per lb 8c

CLOVER SEED.

Alsike, per bushel ..$15.00 Big English, per bushel $12@14 Little Red, per bushel $14@16

WOOL ..

Wool, per lb ^:...16@22c SELLING PRICES Timothy Seed, per [email protected]

NOTICE OF RECEIVER'S SALE

By virtue of an order made and entered in cause No. 11067 in the Circuit Court of Hancock County, Indiana, wherein Charles E. Kinder is the plaintiff and The Citizens Natural Gas, Oil and Water Company, a corporation, is defendant, notice is hereby given that the undersigned receiver heretofore appointed by said Court in said cause, as such receiver, at the north door of the Court House in the City of Greenfield, said County and State, on the 2d day of September, 1912, beginning at ten (10) o'clock a. m., on the said day and continuing from day to day thereafter until sold, will offer for sale at public vendue for not less than two-thirds of the full appraised value thereof, to the highest and best bidder, the following property situated and located in Hancock County, Indiana, to-wit:

All pipe lines, pipes, regulators, meters, drips, tools, fittings, thirteen gas wells, twenty-one gas leases, Irwin safe and office furniture and fixtures said property composing and being together with the real estate hereinafter described all the property of the said defendant and its entire Gas Plant.

Also the following described real estate, situated in said County and State, to-wit: Lots Number one (1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4), Five (5), Six (6), Seven (7), Eight (8), and Nine (9), in Hill Grove Addition to the City of Greenfield, Indiana, except twenty (20) feet square out of the northwest corner of said Lot Number Six (6), which piece of ground is reserved for the use of the Southern Indiana Gas Company so long as said Company shall use the same in connection with the Gas Plant of said Company. Whenever said Gas Company shall cease.to use said ground, the same shal go to and become the absolute property of the owner of said Lot Number Six (6), his grantee or assigns.

Also a certain easement on, over and across all that part of Out Lot Number Five (5), in Hill Grove Addition to the City of Greenfield, that lies between said Lot Number Six (6), above described and Brandywine Creek for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, repairing and removing such water ways, drains, inlets and outlets to and from said real estate and said creek as have been derived by the successive owners of said real estate as were originally granted and stated in a deed executed by Nelson Bradley and Elizabeth Bradley, his wife, on the 2d day of November, 1893, and recorded in Deed Record No. 63 on Page 317 of the Deed Record of Hancock County, Indiana, which will be sold separately as aforesaid except without appraisement and said sales of real and other property will be made subject to the approval of said Court onehalf of the purchase price cash, and the remainder payable in six months from day of sale, with six per cent, interest per annum from date, to be secured to the approval of the undersigned, or all cash may be paid at the option of the purchaser.

CHRISTIAN M. KIRKPATRICK, Receiver. Greenfield, Indiana, July 16, 1912.

Cook & Cook and Jonas P. Walker attorneys. 18w2

Dies After Long Illness. Thomas Ash died Sunday morning at 8 o'clock at his home on North Harrison street. He had been seriously sick for several weeks with a complication of ailments. He leaves a wife and family. Funeral Tuesday at 10 a. m., at the Union Mission church, on Harrison street, with Rev. Mrs. Cline officiating and Morrison & McDaniel, undertakers, in charge. Interment at the Philadelphia cemetery.

Jasper A. Judkins is taking his annual vacation. He is the senior clerk in the Greenfield postoffice. In fact, in length of service he has been connected with the Greenfield postoffice longer than any person now in the postoffice service, and longer, perhaps, than any other person ever served in the Greenfield office.

THE DISTRICT CONVENTION ON AUGUST THIRTEENTH.

The Republican county chairmen met at Connersville Tuesday and decided on August 13th as the date for holding the Sixth .district convention. It will be held at Connersville.

Gasoline Fired Ry Intense Heat. At Rushville Monday, a 90-gallon can of gasoline at the grocery of Lon Havens took fire from the intense heat and the fire departments, had hard work putting the fire out., The heat from the fire cracked big|» plate glass windows in the nearby-* buildings.