Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 1 August 1912 — Page 3

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I E NEAR MUM. INDIA

Told of By Miss Minnie Houck in a Letter To Home Folks—Says the Heathen People are

Slowly Awakening.

The following letter from Miss Minnie Houck, a Hancock county missionary in India, will be of interest to our readers: "Nanpara, North India, "June 27, 1912. "Dear Friends:—Just at present we are pioneering along the Nepal border. The life of a pioneer is not an easy one, there are some hardships, especially in a land where people have strange* custoins and a trying climate, but we are paving the way for future missionaries, who will be stationed at this place. "A few months ago a large bung-* alow was purchased for a missionary home, three miles from Nanpara. It had been formerly owned by an Armenian Indigo Planter, but on account of more modern methods of producing indigo, he found he could not compete with them, so he left the country. His bungalow, the indigo vats which will make a solid foundation for another house, over two acres of land and a fine orchard were sold for $450. Then the bungalow was remodeled, and while it was being put into shape, we lived in the only available house *in Nanpara. It was formerly a Mohammedan home, built with a high wall around the compound, or yard.

We slept on the roof, which was flat and made of cement, while the side walls of brick extended up six feet. We were in the midst of a Mohammedan neighborhood, called the fringer class their land had been given to them by a rajah, or Indian prince, because of their musical ability, but we did not .consider it very musical. In the evening they would begin their musical 'concerts' and keep them up all night. It sounded to us like a weird .chant accompanied by the beating of drums. These were the people to whom we had come with the message of peace and good will but although they were very devriut and religious according to their belief, yet the fruits of it did not show in their lives. Sometimes

POPULAR PASTOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

REY. JOS. B. WILLIAMSON.

Boy Scout Master Williamson, of Troop No. 1, of Greenfield, Ind., which now has almost half a hundred members, and is doing effective scout work. This troop, under the leadership of Rev. Williamson, has established a camp in Gorman's Grove, two miles southeast of the city, where they spend each Friday in drilling and other healthful and instructive exercises. They spent their first night in camp last Thursday night, and will probably repeat? the experience later in the season. Rev. Williamson and Prof. Bryant are taking great interest in the Boy Scouts and their work, and the organization work is a splendid training for the boys, who are enthusiastic, while their parents are well pleased.

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a whole neighborhood would enter into a family brawl and keep it up all night. We had many friends among the women and children and frequently visited the former who were shut up in the zenana homes. The little children used to come every day and ask us to sing "budgens," our Christian songs. After they had learned them, they enjoyed helping us sing them in their language. One day we told them that our bungalow was finished and we were going to move. They were sorry to have us go, but we told them we would come and visit them sometimes. One little girl made me a present of a little home-made doll dressed Indian fashion, with tight bodice, pajamas and silk scarf-over head and shoulders. The pajamas are full at the waist line, tapering down until tight at ankles. The Marathi word for leg or foot is 'pai' hence the word pajamas. In return for the doll, I gave the little girl my fan which is different from their fans made of bamboo woven in thin strips, fancy grasses or palm leaves. The doll, which she called a 'caloona' (plaything), I packed in I my trunk, for I thought some time it might be of interest to children in the Homeland. "When we started away, the little children waved us farewell. We were glad to get out where we could breathe the fresh country air. Our road was lined on either side by immense shade trees in fact, most all the public roads in

North India are shaded by trees and even as one rides on the train the tall branches of the bamboo are seen along the track. The mission bungalow is sheltered by numerous trees. There are orange, lime, citron, mango, guava and pomegranite. A hedge of banana trees is on two sides of the orchard. Two hybiscus bushes with bright red flowers and numerous rose bushes in the front yard. There are also very fragrant Indian flowers, like tube roses, but they have no English names.

"The bungalow is built of brick, plastered over with lime.« It stands out in startling contract to the mud or cheap brick houses of our neighbors a half mile away. As we stand on the front or back veranda, we can see little villages -here land there in the distance, some Mohammedan, others Hindu. The people do not live out on separate farm houses alone, but grouped together for greater protection. Their little

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village^ of ^perhaps a few hundred souls do not have paved streets and boulevards, but winding paths in and out, houses nearly touching each other, with, their cows, goats and chickens o_n the frOnt veranda. "Farmers are busy in the fields preparing to sow their wheat, rice and other grains. The rainy season has just begun. It looks very strange to see farmers shouting at their oxen as they drive through fields covered with water, plowing with a wooden plow with an iron point. The mangoes are ripening. I have never eaten finer fruit anywhere some are over five inches long and look like immense plums. "We are living on the fat of the land, in good health, and contented, but hope some day,to be back for a time in old Hancock county, and then I will be able to tell you more of the needs of this land, which is slowly but surely beginning to awaken from its slumebr of past ages. Sincerely your friend. "MINNIE L. HOUCK."

BIG BOOSTER TRIP HIS REED PLANNED

Fifty Machines Donated for Tuesday, August 6th,' to Advertise the Horse Show to be

Given In, This City.

The firemen have planned a big booster trip on Tuesday, August 6th., to advertise the horse show later in the month. Farmers, business men .firemen and citizens in general are taking a great deal of interest in this trip.

There has been donated to date, fifty automobiles, which will be headed by the Greenfield Military Band and anyone wishing to go are instructed to\be at the court house at 8 o'clock sharp, Tuesday, August 6th. There will be no racing and on one will be premitted to run over 15 miles an hour.

Only One Week Left.

In which to get ready for our fourth and last quarterly meeting of this conference year.

Letv -, all ^quarterly conferance members take notice and be there Sunday. School Superintendents, Class-leoders, Church and Parsonage Trustees, Stewards and Local Preachers.

The local preachers who expect their licenses renewed must have a report at the quarterly meeting, either verbal or written.

Please don't fail this time, the meeting is the most important one of the year.

Mt. Lebanon church Saturday August 3th, 2:30 p. m.

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JOHN S. CLAWSON, Pastor.

Booked For Fine Trip. C. Pauley, one of the popular city letter carriers, began his annual vacation Monday and has his time well planned. With his mother Mrs. Carson, sister, Miss Nellie Carson, and brothers, Ora and Noble Pauley, and the later's wife, four days will be spent camping on Sugar Creek. Thursday Mr. Pauley will leave for^Atlantic City and Philadelphia where he will visit relatives and on August 8th, he will be at Washington, D. C. to attend the National Haymaker's Convention, being a delegate to represent Indiana at that convention. Howard Macy is substituting for hkn as mail carrier.

ous as Chatnberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, the world would be much better off, and the percentage of suffering greatly decreased," writes Lindsay Scott, of Temple, Ind. For sale by all dealerg.

Bring Your Friends

To the basket' meeting August 4th, in Steele's groVe» two and one-half miles southeast of Greenfield,. near Steele's ford. We are expecting a good time. It is a meeting for everybody. It is your meeting. Cbme and help make it a day of great things in a spiritual way. You may have neighbors who would like to come, but who have no conveyance. Don't forget them. Yriii may need a helping hand sometime. This is a day in which we are too apt to forget those «»who are just a little less favored than ourselves. This is Sin, arid the wages of sin is death. .JVe want'Vou there. Sunday school, preaching, communion, basket dinner, s'dng and praise, special s6ngs, ttpeakihg, Bible study, baptismal service. Come.1 John S. Clawson.

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Jfe Dropped Dead There Monday ing. Mrs. Slusser Received egram and Body Will

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J. Ai Slusser, for several years proprietor of the City restaurant on west Main street, died Monday morning at Canton, Miss., where he had gone on real estate business a few weeks ago.

The telegram received by his wife Mrs. Addie M. Slusser, stated that he dropped dead. Mr. Slusser had not been in good health for a long time and quit the restaurant "business in order to get out more to benefit his health. Mrs. Slusser telegraphed the First National Bank of Canton, to have the body of Mr. Slusser prepared and shipped to Huntington, Ind., The deceased leaves a widow and two daughters Iva and Isabelle.

Will Be Asked By Exhibitors of Next Legislature For Betterment of Conditions "Uplift" Movement.

The next legislature will be asked by the Indiana Motion Picture Exhibitors' League to enact a law for the creation of a state board of censorship to pass on all motion picture films before they may be exhibited in the picture shows in the state. This was decided on at the meeting of the league held here, and is in line with the policy of the National League of Motion Picture Exhibitors. The meeting placed in hands of F. J. Rembusch, of Shelbyville, and H. W. Summers, of Indianapolis, the duty of preparing a bill and engineering its enactment into law. The members present all voted in favor of the proposition for state censorship. It was pointed out that this plan would assist in the uplift of the motion picture business and that it would help to place it on the high plane, where it belonged. There are state organizations of motion picture men in fifteen states and all of these will seek state censorship laws at the hands of their legislatures.—Indianapolis Star.

ROY SCOUT NOTES

What Members of This Organization

Are Doing in Other Places.

The Boy Scouts of Louisville, Ky., have built a motor boat. For several weeks they hammered and sawed and worked busily in the rear of the "Neighborhood House" in First street. They laid the keel and ribs and in a masterly way constructed the hull. The boat will measure 23 feet in length and 5 in width. It will hold sixteen persons. The Boy Scouts are using the boat in connection with their camp this summer. -A1 ..s-

Boy Scouts of Troop 121, of New York City, are collecting books for a troop library. .Walter Kohn, patrol leader, and David Schneider, assistant patrol leader, have active charge of the work. ,,

Ashbell Wells, 17 years old, and Chester Steele, 16, are husky hikers and walked from Hartford, Conn., to Boston and back, camping on the way. They averaged twenty miles a day. The boys wore the Scout uniform, carried equipment, cooking utensils, blankets, and made it a point to buy their food or to work for it. fi:

T^e* ^Boy Scouts of Pittsfieid, Mass., helped increase the funds for the Hillcrest Hospital, in that city, by aiding in selling 4,000 artificial daisies.

Mr. W. S. Gunsalus, a farmer living near Fleming, Pa., says he has used Chainberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in his family for fourteen years, and that he has found it to be an excellent remedy, and takes pleasure in recomanending it. For sale by all dealers.

Mrs. Otis Jphnson and s6n, Oakley, have returned from Knightstown, where they have been spending two weeks with Mrs. Johnson's mother, Mrs. Eliza Kiche^, who is seriously ill.

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Caleb Pusey's Machine Was Considerably Damaged When the Brakes Refused to Work in

Turning Corner Here.

The automobile of Caleb Pusey, driven by his daughter, crashed into a telegraph pole on the corner of East and Main streets at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon and was considerably damaged.

Mr. Pusey's daughter was driving the machine and attempted to turn south on East street $rom

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Main, when instead of following the paved street the machine made a dive for the corner curb and struck the pole with a heavy jolt. The lamps, fender and radiator of the automobile were damaged and it will be in the auto hospital for a few days for repairs. It is said the brakes on the machine refused to work, causing the young lady to drive into the pole. No one was injured in the accident, but quite a crowd gathered about the scene.

Daniel Pugh, of Indianapolis, visited John Pugh and family and H. Klapper and family at New Palestine last week.

Herbert and James White spent Saturday night and Sunday with 1 their aunt, Bell Liming, of Greenfield.

1^. One great secret or youth and beauty for the young woman or the mother i* the proper understanding of her womanly system and well-being. Every woman, young or bid, should know Herself and her physical make up. A good way to arrive at this knowledge is toiget a good dq^or book, such for instance, as "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, )y R. V. Pierce, M. D., which can, readily be procured by sending thirty-one edits for cloth-bound copy, addressing, Dr. Pierce, at Buffalo, N. Y.

The womanly system is a delicate machine which can only be compared to the intricate mechanism of a beautiful watch which will keep in good running order only with good care and the proper oiling at the right time, so that the delicate mechanism may not be worn out. Very many times young women get old or run down before their time through ignorance and" the improper handling of this human mechanism. Mental, depression, a confused head, backache, headache, or hot flashes and many symptoms of derangement of the womanly system can be avoided by a proper understanding of what to do, in those trying times that come to all women.

MRS. G. H. WILLIAMS, of Lynnhaven, Va., wrote: "It la six year*, since my health gave way. I had female trouble and all the doctors (I employed three) said I would die. I waa not able to do my work, had to. hire someone all the time. Finally, I read in the papers about. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and decided to try it. I had not taken but one bottle until I found it had done me good. I took, in a!V .five bottles of 'Favorite Prescription' and two of "Golden Medical"

Discovery,' and now I am able to do all my housework, and have gained:, fourteen pounds. I advise all women who suffer from female trouble to try your Favorite Prescription.' It's the only medicine on earth."

The Bible, Put in the Fascinating Garb of Pictures,

taking the choicest passages of the Scriptures and putting them in such a form that it becomes attractive at once to the children. Below is shown the unique method of teaching the child the Biblical truths:

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Ex-President Roosevelt before the Mothers' Congress in New York City, said: "Nothing outside of the home can take the place of the home. Though the church and the school are valuable adjuncts to it/ they are wretched substitutes for it."

Realizing the significance of this statement, no sacrifice is too great to make the home the proper training ground for the religious," spiritual and moral development of the child. Mothers who have the religious training of their child at heart .would do well to investigated very carefully this method of home religious teaching at the earliest .. opportunity. The representative of this new method, known as "Bible Symbols," is, Mr. J. L. Primrose, with headquarters at 108 W. North Stf Greenfield, Ind.,