Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 18 July 1912 — Page 7

HOSPITAL PLANS

HANCOCK COUNTY INSTITUTION IS POSSIBILITY WITHIN THE NOT DISTANT FUTURE,

ACCORDING TO REPORTS NOW IN CIRCULATION

PHYSICIANS INDORSE PLANS

Think it Would Be Good Thing For the Community The Idea Has Been Smoldering For Months and

May Blaze Soon Sick Could Be Better Cared For at Less Expense —Clubs and Citizens Are Behirid the Movement.

That Greenfield will have located within her bouhdaries within the comparatively near future, a fully equipped hospital, is not impossible or improbable. The idea has been smoldering for more than two years and it is now thought has become warm enough to blaze. The clubs- and citizens are behind the movement aiid at their meeting on Thursday night, the physicians of the county heartily and unanimously endorsed the plans, as they feel it would be a good thing for the community.

With a hospital in our midst the sick or injured could be cared for better and at much less expense than now when they have to be taken to Indianapolis, if they get hospital advantages at all. Proper nursing is a great help to the physicians and an advantage to patients suffering from numerous diseases and this can be secured only at first class, fully equipped hospitals. While the details have not been worked out in regard to the proposed hospital here, enough are interested to insure a good big subscription towards the same, and it is thought well located grounds will be donated by some publicspirited citizen who appreciates the value of a hospital to his fellowmen. It is not the idea to make a city movement only, of the hospital proposition, but the plan is to make it a county affair as all will be benefited and privileged alike, even though it be located in this city.

CALLED TO SEE PRISONER AND WAS LOCKED IN JAIL.

Rushvillc Attorney Could Not Induce Sheriff's Wife To Release Him Until a Policeman Arrived.

Albert Stevens, a young attorney, was never locked up in jail but once, and that time was last night, says the Rushville Republican. Although he was behind the bars only ten minutes, it seemed like two hours. Since his experience at the jail it has been suggested by Albert's friends that he extend his acquaintance list or have his picture put in the newspapers so his smiling countenance will be familiar to everybody.

When George Avery, of near Milroy, was arrested last night, he requested that Mr. Stevens be sent to him in the capacity of an attorney. Policeman John Walters took the attorney to jail and told him he would return in a few minutes. But Stevens finished his business and pounded on the door to attract attention. Mrs. Bebout, wife of the sheriff, came to learn what the noise was about. Stevens said he wanted out. But not for Mrs. Bebout. She didn't know Mr. Stevens, attorney-at-law and counsellor at the bar. She is very particular who she lets in and out of jail— particularly out. The result was that Mr. Stevens had to remain in jail until the policeman returned and identified him.

$1,000 For New Hospital. It was reported today that a business man of Greenfield, said he would give $1,000 towards a new hospital in this city. There seems to be a strong sentiment in favor of the new institution, and many handsome personal donations would be given if the matter was urged with the proper vim. Churches and lodges, it is thought, would take a large share of the expense of furnishing the different wards of the hospital.

Wanted—Fair wages paid weekly to few middle-aged men in this county all summer's job. Commence now. References required. No boys or foreigners. Glen Brothers, Rochester, N. Y. il6di-wl

New Case Filed.

Clint Parker vs. Viola and John Anderson. Suit to quiet title to real estate.

NEW TRIAL REFUSED II BROOKS WILL CASE

Judge Vestal, of Hamilton County, Hopes Heirs To $240,000 Estate Will Compromise Jury's

Verdict Will Stand.

The motion for a new trial in.the Brooks will case was overruled by Judge Vestal Tuesday afternoon, and time will be fixed in which to file bills of exception. It is likely 120 days will be granted, as, if the case were appealed, it will make a long record, says the Noblesville Enterprise.

Court Reporter Baker has five of his short hand books, which when transcribed would make probably 2,000 pages of recttrd, including the exhibits and would be one of the longest records ever filed from this county. The arguments on the motion were concluded about 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and Judge Vestal, in his decision, reviewed the case.

He said the case had occupied three weeks, and that he had had sufficient time to study the law in the case and he did not believe any errors were made in the instructions or in the record. He said no doubt the main reason for the verdict of the jury was that, While Madison Brooks knew the extent and value of his property, the jury thought him of unsound mind as to the disposition of it and as to doing justice to his heirs. He said the question of the reasonableness of a will would always enter into the mind of a jury, and he thought the verdict should not be set aside, if there were reasonable ground for a difference of opinion. There were many questions, he said, upon which men of reasonable mind might disagree, and that, no doubt, the jury thought that Clarinda Wampler, who remained with her father, Madison Brooks, for many years, should have received more than a life estate in some land and other property, and that the children of two of the sons should not have been overlooked. Madison Brooks, the court said, seemed to have an idea that only the most thrifty of his heirs should be remembered. He thought these various questions would always be before a jury, and as he had instructed the jury that it might set aside the will or the codicils and that the jury exercised this right, he would not set the verdict aside.

Judge Vestal, in his conclusion, hoped that the parties would find some reasonable ground of compromise that the property was probably worth $240,000, and that litigation would cost much, money and that some of the heirs were able to litigate and others not, and that a fair and just way could be found of settling the case. No definite announcement has been made as to whether the case will be appealed.

Madison Brooks was well known in Hancock county, where he owned considerable land" and several of his heirs live in the northwest part of this county.

SENTENCED BOYS TO STAY AT HOME ON HOLIDAYS.

There is a judge at Revere, Mass., who had been pestered by bad boys, not bad enough to be criminal, but bad enough to be a nuisance and an annoyance to the neighborhood.

The judge didn't want to send them to prison, and thus disgrace them, so he sentenced them to. stay at home all day on the Fourth of July and also to stay at home every Saturday until September. This is going to prove pretty hard on the boys, but they deserve their punishment.

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The police will be on the watch for them, and if o*he steps out on the sidewalk he will be nabbed and taken before the court, who will condemn him for contempt and send him to jail. That is pretty good treatment for bad boys. If they can not behave themselves on the street they will have to stay at home on Saturdays, which are lively days that the boys would not care to miss. This suggestion of a penalty is worthy of some imitation in these parts. Ohio State Journal.

Walker-Newman.

Miss Nellie Newman, of Rushville, and Hughes Walker, of this city, were married at Indianapolis Wednesday night. Mr. Walker is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sid L. *Valker, of this city.

Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Pauley and daughter, of Indianapolis, came today to spend a week with his mother, Mrs. A. E. Carson, and family,,,.

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GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, JULY 18. 1912

BLOCK SIGNAL SYSTEM IS BEIHG INSTALLED

By the Terra Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Company Between Greencastle and Brazil.

An Indianapolis news dispatch says:—To comply with the state law that requires block signals to be installed on all sections of the line on which there are curves and bad approaches, the Terra Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction company has begun the installation of an automatic track circuit block signal apparatus between Greencastle and Brazil and if it proves satisfactory the plan will be installed on all sections of the road.

The new apparatus is being installed along fourteen and onehalf miles of track and the work will cost approximately $1,500 a mile. Seven signals will comprise the outfit between Brazil and Greencastle on the T. H. I. & E. line. The signals require only inspection by employes, the automatic arrangement being worked by circuits through the rails by which the passing cars effect the changes in signals. It will do away with the use of telephone for the transmission of signals.

Three lights are used in the signal. A red light denotes a stop, a green light a clear track and a red and yellow lights together, allow passage behind another car. They may be seen at 1,500 feet in the daytime and on a straight track at night they may be seen ten miles. The system will be completed in one month it is hoped and an inspection trip will be made by the officers of the company and the members of the railroad commission of Indiana.

Resolutions.

Whereas, It has pleased the Heavenly Father to remove from our midst and from our society, our dear vice president, Mrs. Anna Laura Roberts, therefore be it

Resolved, That we cherish her memory and her willingness to do all for the Ladies' Society that was in her power that we appoint her daughter, Mrs. Ada Griffith, and her daughters-in-law, Mrs. Nellie Roberts and Mrs. Daisy Roberts, to nominate one of our ladies for the vacancy of vice president made by her death.'

That our love for her shall continue, and that her dear family will be held in due respect to her memory and that a copy of these resolutions be spread on our recordbook and another copy be given to her family. Ada New,

Mary Lindsey^ Laura Lewis,

d-w-pd Committee.

Mrs. A. J. Mankin and Mrs. Marion Bockway and son, who have been the guests of Mrs. Mary Myers for the past week, went to Jackson township yesterday tc spend a few days with A. J. Walker and family and John Simmons and family.

Wesley Pottorff, of Hartsville, Bartholomew county, has passed his 98th birthday, and is still able to hoe the garden daily. He never has used Duffy's Malt Whiskey nor any other, nor tobacc,o in any form., I

Blood hounds were employed at Lewisville this week to track down thieves who robbed a drug store at tfyat place of $75. The hounds stopped at a boarding, house, but no arrests have been made.

A Dozen a Day.

According to the New Castle Times, the daily average number of boarders of the Henry county j&il for the past ninety days, was an even dozen, the board of which cost the county $418.

Mrs. James L. Smith, who has been sick for a few days, is better. Mr. Smith's mother, who makes her home with him, has also been sick for a few, days.

Alonzo Gibson, the gardener, of East Greenfield, shipped his household goods to Muncie today, and he and his family went to Rush county to visit his uncle, David Gibson.

Mr. and Mrs. George B. Ramsey, of Indianapolis, who have been the guests of Greenfield friends for a few days have returned to their home.

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•Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heim, of Carthage, were the guests of his mother, Mrs. Maria Heim, on Noble street, Thursday. s,

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THE NORTH DAKOTA HOOSIERS' PICNIC

Former Indiana Families in Morton County Spent Day at Farm of M. A. Catt and Formed

Permanent Organization

The following from the Flasher, North Dakota Hustler of July 5th will be of interest here: "The Indiana people had a great picnic here last Saturday. It was a great gathering of the Hoosiers at the farm of M. A. Catt, located a quarter of a mile from the Northern Pacific depot. "Instead of the great trees under which they used to meet back in Indiana about the time the spring chickens were ripe, the genial and resourceful Mr. Catt had made his barn into a vast receiving place, and from the buggy shed to the outer walls there was a floor of alfalfa, which also decorated the structure. The buggy shed had also been carpeted, and seats were afforded for the traveler, who had come many miles to meet again with the neighbors of long ago. "The crowd of Hoosiers began to gather in the late forenoon, and a little after 12 the ladies spread a vast table stretching the length of the buggy shed. On that table were most of the things to which a Hoosier will turn with more than mere satisfaction. Real Indiana cherry pie, tender chicken, dainty pastry of the class which made Indiana culinary skill famous in the years agone. For an hour the stalwart men and pretty women held sway at that table. It was a feast that would be hard to find this side or the Wabash. After dinner a platform was arranged and a very pretty program was carried out.

The first thing was the election of officers of the Hoosier Association of Morton county. The following officers were elected:

President—Col. H. R. Bitzing. Vice president—M. A. Catt. Sec. and Treas.—Mrs. J. McFall. The great thong of Hoosiers then decided to effect a state organization to be known as the Indiana Society of North Dakota, of which the Morton county branch and other county associations qould become a part. It was the purpose of all present to attend the North Dakota Exposition at Bismarck this year, on Indiana and Illinois Day.

M. A. Catt delivered the address of welcome, in which he touched upon the tender memories of those who came into this new country to make their homes. He dwelt with special stress "upon the kindly friendship of E. N. Bosworth, for the pioneers who came and found hardships of many kinds. Mr.#Catt said that every pioneer found a true welcome at the home of E. N. Bosworth, who was the first man to cross Crystal Creek and enter land. Mr. Catt as well as Mr. Bosworth and other sturdy pioneers here, had found North Dakota kind to him, and his fine farm and fertile fields bear testimony of the intelligence as well as the industry with which the homestead has been cultivated. We have never seen better dry land alfalfa in North Dakota than that on the Catt farm."

"Is it a Crime?"

There is a little widow in Greenfield who is making her living by honest toil from place to place. Prematurely old, she drudges, because her husband is dead, and it took all the little hoard of money to bury him and pay a few bills. She has five children that she has had to put out in various ways. Two of them in orphans' homes, and they yearn to see their mamma. The older ones scoop together their little savings to come here occasionally to see her. What would a thousand or two^of life insurance have done in a case like this? Ask Hufford, the Fidelity Man,'118 West Main. d-w

Nigh-Kinsley.

Ben Nigh and Miss Goldie Kinsley were united in marriage at the home of the bride on Wednesday evening. Rev. Frazier performed the ceremony in the presence of the bride's mother and sister and E. L. Frazier and wife, Goldie Rigdon and Cleo VanSkoik. This is one of the promingjit couples of the community and they have scores of friends who wish them a happy life. They went to housekeeping in their new home recently built west of town.—Morristown Sun.

Teacher Goes To Burney. Prof. F. C. Landrus, 'who was a teacher in the city schools of this city last year, has accepted the principalship of the schools of Burney, Decatur county, at an increased salary. Prof. Landrus' home is at Westland^ yvhere he owns a general store.

TEACH AGRICULTURE

Is the Plan of Charles A. Grealhouse, State Superintendent of Public Instruction of the

State of Indiana.

Summer Time Brings Foot Troubles

Excessive perspiration—chafing—heating, cause frequent abrasions of the skin quite easily, so foot troubles are much more common. All this may be avoided or remedied by the timely use of

Rexall Foot Powder

The little red school house, and the consolidated schools of the rural districts no longer will teach only the "three R's" if the efforts of Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction, are successful, says the Indianapolis Star. Mr. Greathouse announces that, beginning with the coming school year, the state education department will attempt to introduce the teaching of agriculture as one of the leading subjects in the rural schools. He has arranged to cooperate with the agricultural department of Purdue University in carrying on the work. "We should teach agriculture in the rural schools," said Mr. Greathouse. "This course has never been offered in the past, but we mean to introduce it and encourage it all we can this year. We will include an elementary agriculture course in our outline of courses for next year, and I hope the rural schools will become interested in it."

The agriculture course will include the subjects of soils, tillage, drainage, fertilization, the proper rotation of crops and many other phases of scientific farming.. The instruction in these courses will be given the teachers at the institutes and they will be urged to promote the work as much as possible.

The faculty of Purdue University has notified Mr. Greathouse that it will assist the department. The members of the faculty will give their services to the institutes. It is hoped that the work will become a distinctive feature of education in rural communities of the state.

Nowadays.

"Have you packed the sanitary drinking cups?" "Yes." "Put in the sanitary paper towels?" "Yes." "Put the antiseptic soap where we can get at it quickly?" "Yes." "Stored away all the individual combs and brushes?" "Yes." "Get the peroxide in the grip?" "Yes." "Then come along. I guess it'll be safe for us to spend a day or two in the country." Detroit Free Press.

New Business Firm.

Messrs. Sylvester Hamilton, T. O. Wilcoxon and L. M. Hiatt, of Shirley, have formed a real estate and insurance firm to operate at Shirley. v- ...

Wilson to Speak in Indiana. Gov. Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic nominee for president, will speak in Indiana, according to Senator John W. Kern.

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Another Raid at Knightstown. In a blind tiger raid at Knightstown Monday night, two Italians were arrested and sent to jail.

MONEY TO LOAN

FEAR POTATOES WILL ROT IN THE GROUND

Continued Wet Weather is Said To Be Affecting Them, and the Big Supply Now in Danger of Being Shortened.

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The promise of a great potato crop this year is in danger of being unfulfilled, according to reports to the effect that potatoes have begun to rot in the ground, and small ones to sprout, instead of growing. The long continued extremely wet weather is held to be the cause of the decay of the potatoes, which have had rust spots on them for some time. When the hot weather begun a few days ago, it was hoped that the decay would be checked, but since the last big rains Monday

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afternoon and night, and the drop of about thirty degrees in temperature, it is feared by some that the potatoes will continue to decay until the supply will be very materially shortened from what it promised a few weeks ago. Then the word went out that the crop was the largest and best yield and quality that we have had in many years, and visions of 50-cent spuds floated before the. eyes of the consumers, but if the present conditions continue, it is said the supply will be so shortened that the price will remain much higher than was expected.

BANK ADVERTISING.

Bank advertising was one of the subjects discussed with much interest at the annual convention of the Washington Bankers' Association at Tacoma, Wash., last week. One of the speakers gave several illustrations of the success that has followed an intelligent publicity campaign to attract deposits. In eighteen months a trust company in New York City increased deposits from $124,000,000 to $178,000,000, a gain of $54,000,000. This institution is, of course, well known, but advertising helped it just as surely as it would a less prominent bank.

Another instance cited is that of a city in Southern Michigan, in 1902, which has a population of about 10,000 with three banks, whose total deposits were about $3,500,000. Practically no advertising was done by any of these institutions. A new bank was established in 1903, the management of which believed in advertising, and in less than nine years the new institution has accumulated greater deposits than the combined deposits of the other three banks, ten years ago. In the meantime/ the other banks had been forced to advertise more than they did, and they, too, have grown, so that the combined deposits of the four banks are today about $11,000,000, a gain of over 200 per cent., although the population of the town has increased during the same time less than 35 per cent.—New York Commercial.

Raymond Slaughter, of Green township, lost a valuable horse on Wednesday. It was struck by lightning. W. I. Garriott carried the Insurance in the Fidelity Phcnix.

CHAUNCEY W. DUNCAN

Rooms 8 and 9. Masonic Temple. Greenfield, Ind.

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