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There is one reform often talked about and strongly advocated, but never practiced by legislative bodies. It is the case in Congress and in state legislatures. We refer to economy. There must be an end to the increased expenditure of money, or the people will be bankrupted. No legislative body can provide for all the demands made on it. There are many things which public institutions should have, but they can not be supplied all at once. The people must not be burdened by taxes, even for good things. Legislatures and Congress must bear in mind that public expenditures should be made more like private expenditures. Just think of Congress voting more than fourteen millions of dollars for a gunboat!
Former Assessment in Greenfield. The question of dredging Brandywine creek is coming up before the people again, and as they are interested in every phase of the controversy, any information concerning it will no doubt be read with interest. The question of cost is one that there has been considerable difference of opinion about. When the matter was lip a few years ago, it proceeded so far that the drainage commissioner viewed the stream and assessed the costs. That report is on file at the office of the county surveyor in the court house, and any one wanting to see what the cost will be on any certain property can ascertain that fact by examining the record. In the city of Greenfield that report shows that the costs as they were then assessed to the average sized lot, are as follows: From Franklin St. to Broad'y.$ .50 Broadway to Swope St 1.00 East of Swope St 2.00 East of Wood St 4.00 East of Pratt St 4.00 East of Vine St 4.00 East of Baldwin St. 5.00 East of Brandywine St 6.00 East of Howard St 5.00 All the lots east of Brandywine
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The Republican Meeting The meeting of the Republicans at Indianapolis last week was unusual in many respects. It was unusual in the number, almost 600 voters. If the Republicans had been successful in the recent national and state elections it would have been natural to get together and discuss questions of policy in the discharge of official duties, and to talk over appointive positions, but for almost 600 Republicans to come together within ninety days after an election which almost wiped the party off the political map, so far as official positions were concerned, is almost without a parallel. The meeting, of the Indiana Democrats, flushed with national and state victories, did not beat it, and the Progressives, proud and boasting of their remarkable accomplishments in the recent elections, did not approach it, even with men, women and children. But the number, surprising as it was, was not the main feature of the meeting.
The main feature of that meeting was in the spirit of the 600 Republican
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they were undismayed. They had believed in their party in its victories, and they still have faith in its principles, even in defeat. They believe that it will come back better and grander than it ever was. Another, feature of that meeting was the abiding faith of the men present, in the ability of the Republican party to solve the perplexing questions of state and nation now before the people, better than any other party. There was not a disgruntled man in the bunch. They were not time servers, but genuine Republicans, just as true to their party in defeat as they were when it was victorious.
The? had met unusual defeat, but bTd^'in T.hpv WArfk nnHicmovnH Tlimr uunt? ill
It was truly a meeting of getting together. The one idea was' the Grand Old Party. No political ambitions were there no jealousies no candidates. The-^Republican party stHl lives and it will yet lead this great nation in the future as it has done in the past, advancing at every step toward better things for the whole people.
Haphazard Spending
It is the feckless, unsystematic way of spending money by cash payments that prevents people from getting ahead, and not the lack of earning capacity of the individual. If you want'to prove this conclusively for yourself just open a checking Recount with us and try the bnsiness-libe, accurate method of paying your bills by cheek and allow ns to do the book-keeping.
The thought of business men like the proprietors of the National Cash Register Company being sent to jail is inclined to arouse the sympathy of people. In sympathy the people think of the men as successful business men who have builded a great factory, giving employment to thousands of employes at good wages, and establishing an industrial plant that is a model and the wonder of the civilized world. From that side of the question the sympathy does not seem to be out of place. And even further, when the product of the factory is considered as a utility, one is forced to think well of the men back of the enterprise. But on the other hand, when one thinks of the immense amount of money charged for the products, the fabulous wealth accumulated, and the suppression of honest competition, there seems very little occasion- for sympathy. We doubt not but the verdict is just and right, and the penalty should be paid. It is no doubt deserved, and the jail sentence, with other similar sentences like the iorn workers, will tend to educate all the people to a wholesome re-
The people are united on the question of good roads to the extent that all would like to have them, but the difference develops when the means of securing them is considered. Persons who would benefit in a financial way in the construction of improved highways, favor a wholesale making of roads regardless of the ability of the people to pay for such improvements. The automobile manufacturers also are more interested in securing good roads than they are in the question of how such expenses are to be paid. There are many people who seek the aid of the FederalGovernment in the construction of highways. They have the Federal aid of the government in an early day, to improve the National Road, as a precedent. They also refer to the expenditure by the government of millions of dollars each year to
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CAPITAL STATE BANK THE OLDEST STATE BANK IN HANCOCK COUNTY OFFICERS J. L. BINFORD PKES. .'"—'C. M. CURRY, V.-PRES' W. J. THOMAS, ASS'T. CASHIER N. C. BINFORD. CASHIER
spect for law—a much needed les- lect quiet and ready with a patient son. acquiescence that was characteristic of his life. There seems a strain Good Roads Questions
rivers and harbors, and
ask why not also aid the people in road construction. It is easy to see that if the Federal Government embarks in road building in a general way, that it is undertaking an enormous task, and it will certainly approach such an undertaking very cautiously.
After all is said that can be said, the matter of building roads reverts back to the people. They will have to pay for it no matter whether it is dont by the county, the state or the nation. Such improvements will cost a great amount of money. So much, in fact, that all such improvements can not be made in a short time. To do so would be to bankrupt the people done by piece-meal just as the people,can afford it. In the meantime the people could' save much time and money by improving the methods now employed in the construction and repair of highways. That is the most shameful expenditure and waste of money, under the present system. What work is now done on the roads should be done right—done just as it would be done were it being done for a careful individual. Men who work on the roads should earn their money, and
such a way as to be of the most permanent benefit to the roads.
Charles Major
Charles Major was distinctly a story teller. He had the gift of visualizing the past, not as a matter of literature, in which, indeed, he was little gifted, but in the intimate sense of a chronicle, which might have been unearthed with its contemporaneous record set down as if without expectation of seeing the light. He was in this similitude an unconscious performer. From this he stepped into story telling, giving his working days to the law and on Sundays locking himself in and living all the day with the characters that came to him and demanded voice.
history, and knew the matter from which historians write. He knew the weaknesses of the great characters and how to picture the individual, how to "put in all the scars." So he passed his life writing many books which brought him large sums which he chiefly invested in the fat acres of the wonderful farm land that surrounded his home.
He was a native of Indianapolis His father, one of the early lawyers and judges of prominence, moved to Shelbyville, where Charles lived from his early 'teens. The father, a man of high attainments and of strong character, was an Englishman and brought with him many of the sturdy characteristics of that race. He kept his home customs to a great degree. He taught his son and inculcated in him the love of history which his large library enabled him to gratify and to put to more than selfish use. So the days of his life passed in peace, sweetened by the taste of success and comforted by all gratification that wealth—wealth won by work— can give. Death came at last in grim shape. But it found its sub-
of injustice in it to his friends that one who went his way without ostentation and had for those whom he knew a warm hand and everready helpfulness, should be called hardly before the fulness of middle life came, and so leave bereft a home in which happiness and affection seasoned all its days.—Indianapolis News.
If there is no new legislation in the way of road laws, still the discussion of the question by the legislature will have a good effect in that it will educate the people to the idea of better repair work.
There is no industry in Hancock county which attracts more attention than the poultry business. The aggregate amount received for the poultry products by producers in the county would astonish every citizen, and still the demand increases. There is no line of industry, either, in which there has been greater improvement. The production is not confined to the farmer, but many, people in the cities are raising large numbers of chickens of the best egg-producing varieties.
It seems from reports that coal is abundant now at places where recently there were claims of a shortage. That abundance of coal and cars should develop just at the close of winter indicates that coal had been held back for the purpose of boosting the price. The mild winter probably prevented extortion in prices of coal by tlhe mining
It must be companies. And now that spring is 'approaching they find themselves with a surplus. The people should learn that there is no more practical economy than to lay iii their winter fuel in the summer or early fall. It is better for the consumer and better for the dealer, and then the mining companies and railroads can not impose upon the dealer and consumer when the cold weather comes. ...
He had only one vein, and that was to live over again the varied scenes of history with which he was ... acquainted. Mr. Major was a vora- this stale" thafIts chartered*not ^th.
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Will Talk About Sen. Jackson. W. H. Blodgett, of the Indianapolis News, has the following to say of Senator Cary Jackson from Rush, Fayette and Hancock counties: "Senator Carey Jackson, of Fayette, Hancock and Rush, is one of the most modest and unassuming men in the upper body. He sits quietly in his seat and watches the procedings with but little to say. But this quiet, unassuming man has started something that will make him talked about more than a little. Mr. Jackson is the author of Senate Bill 397, and 397 is old Senate Bill 105, with a new number. Bill 105, last session, brought well-dressed and portly gents from all parts of the nation, who denounced it as a piece of very, very vicious legislation, and one of the greatest lobbies that ever assembled in Indianapolis came here to defeat it. And yet it was only a simple little thing—just provided that no foreign corporation doing business in Indiana should do anything in
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story. He loved the sources of the charter was issued, and that it
should not do anything which an Indiana corporation was prohibited from doing. 'And Senate Bill 397 does not do a thing more th^n that. But already Mr. Jackson is reviving calls from well dressed and portly individuals, who wish to take him to dinner and talk over the bill with him. They even tell him that as there is to be a public utilities commission, there really is no need of such a law now, and suggest that' he drop it in the interest of good business '"I am surprised at the people who are getting acquainted with me,' said Senator Jackson. 'Really, I am more than surprised. I am startled. But I propose to fight it through and get the bill enacted into a law if such a thing is possible. The very fact that there is so much opposition to the bill from special interests whose agents have been to see me, makes me believe that it is a good bill and would make a good law. And that being the case, I see no reason why it should not be a law. It will be one if haye the power to make it one."'
Bad Telephone Manners. Tn a very interesting article on "Telephone Courtesy," in the March "Woman's Home Companion," the author says in part: "No well-bred man or woman would drop into a man's parlor before he starts for business in The morning, and engage him in a longwinded discussion. Yet I have known women interested in charities or civic movements to call up a business man at his home by telephone during the breakfast hour, and start the conversation by stating that they had chosen the hour, knowing that he would surely be 'at leisure.' They have ignored the crispncss if not the bluntness of his replies, and continued to talk while his breakfast cooled or his affairs at the office demanded his presence. And finally they have wondered why their mission failed! "Would any woman making any pretense to, good breeding center your home at dinner time and engage you in conversation, knowing that your dinner and family awaited you in the dining room? Yet how often have you been greeted at the telephone with this remark: 'Oh, were you at dinner? Then I won't keep you a minute.' "But the minute runs into five or ten, the talker holding you grimly to the topic nearest her heart, while your dinner turns cold. "Is it any wonder that business men protect themselves by sending clerks to answer the .telephone? Or that in many households servants ask who is calling and what is wanted before summoning members of the family? How else can one protect himself from telephonebores and the abuse of telephone courtesy?"
BANNER INSTITUTE SATURDAY.
Held at Charlottesville Well Attended, Full of Enthusiasm.
The Farmers' Institute held at Charlottesville last Saturday was a success in every way. The crowd was large and made up of representative farmers who were interested in the program and helped to advance the cause for which the institute stands.
Mr. McMahan handled his subjects in a way that led those present to believe that he knew what he was talking about. Mrs. J. F. Walker, of Indianapolis, gave a fine talk in the forenoon on "The Making of a World," which was full of good things. The climax of the institute was her address on "The New Woman vs. the Old." This part of the program was reserved for the last, and when Prof. Thomas, with the high school entered in a body, the church was crowded to its seating capacity.
All listened eagerly to Mrs. Walker for an hour and a half, and all were sorry she could not speak longer. She impressed all as being both eloquent and forceful, and well knows how to send the truth where she wants it to stick. The large number in attendance was partly due to the fact that many who had heard Mrs. Walker in Greenfield had given special invitations to friends and neighbors who it was known would be interested in the address. Should she ever return to Charlottesville she will be greeted by many people.
The committee on nominations for officers for the ensuing year reported as follows: President, Frank McClarnon vice, Joe Addison secretary, Milo Goodpasture. The names of thirty-two men and eighteen women, the former paying 25c and the latter 15c, insures the success of the institute next year.
Milo Goodpasture, Sec.
The members of the Methodist Protestant church are raising money for the purchase of a new church organ.
Orville Keaton, of near Maxwell, is sick with rheumatism. A*?
Why keep your valuable documents in your desk or safe at home? You are making a grave mistake—one that you will some day regret. Important documents should be kept in a safe deposit vault that is absolutely fire and burglar proof. This bank has safe deposit boxes for rent in its modern steel vaults $3 will pay a year's rent. Better start today kteping your valuables in a safe and a convenient place.
THE GREENFIELD BANKING CO.
ESTABLISHED IN 1871
GREENFIELD MARKET These prices are corrected daily from quotations by the Bolt Mdat Market, Thomas Nye, the poultry dealer, New Milling Company and local grocers. —Cattle— Steers $6.00(5)8.00 Stock Cattle [email protected] Heifers [email protected] Bulls [email protected] Canners and Cutters [email protected] Fat Cows [email protected] Cows $20 @$50 Veal Calves [email protected] -HogsGood to Best Heavies...!
Medium and Mixed [email protected] Good to Choice" Lights... [email protected] -WheatWheat, per bushel 90 No. 2, per bushel $1.00 -CornCorn. 68 lbs 42c —Oats and RyeOats, per bushel 29©30c Rye, per bushel 60c —Hay and StrawBaled timothy hay, ton 611.00 Baled mixed hay, ton 10.00 Baled clover hay, ton 10.00 Bulk timothy hay, ton 10.00 Bulk mixed hay, ton 8.00 Bulk clover hay 8.00 Baled wheat straw 4.00 Baled oats straw 5.00 —Buying Price Seeds— Timothy, per bushel $1.50@ 1.75 Clover, per bushel 8.00@ 9.00 Alsike, per bushel [email protected] —Selling Price Seeds— Little Red clover S 12.00 Alsike 14.50@ 15.00 Timothy seed 2.00® 2.25 Kentucky Blue Grass.. 2.00 —Bacon and LardBacon 12@14c Country hams 12@15c Lard, per lb4 11c —Butter and Eggs— Butter, per lb 22^S)28c Eggs, per dozen 17c —Poultry— Chickens, per lb 12c Turkeys, per lb 15c Ducks, per lb 10c Geese, per lb. 10c
CLEVELAND
Cottage prayer meeting was held Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Malinda Miller, who is sick.
George Johnson and wife of north of Greenfield, visited relatives here last week and attended the funeral of Mrs. Kizzie Burris.
Albert Williams is moving to his farm northwest of here. Vint Davis and wife were calling on friends here Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Lawrence Bell, of Charlottesville, has been visiting Nellie Nibarger this week.
Miss Leta Kinsel, who has been visiting her cousin, Abe Coffin and family, near Carthage, the past week, returned home Sunday.
Isaac Hatfield was calling on friends here. Saturday. Quincy Bates, of Shirley, visited Moses Burris Saturday.
Mrs. Hazel Walker and Mrs. Nell Nibarger attended the farmers' institute at Charlottesville Friday.
Winfield Lacy and wife visited at the home of Otto Lacy and family the first of this week.
RURAL ROUTE 5.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Huey, of near Maxwell, entertained as Sunday guests, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Shore, Loren Jones, Arza Wheatley, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Huey and son.
Charles Adkins spent Sunday evening with friends near Maxwell. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Huey spent Friday evening with Sanford Cooper and wife.
Mrs. Nina Cooper sp mt Saturday evening with her lister. Mrs. Belle Reynolds.
Arza Wheatley spent Saturday night with Loren Jones, of near Mohawk.
Invitations Iiave been issued for the double wedding of the Misses Nina anJ Lena Havens to Ralph Beeson and Meryl Lewis, to occur February 26th.
C. M. Kirkpatrick sold a nice team of young draft horses a few days ago for $^0.
Mrs. Moses Fort, of R. R. 2 out of Wilkinson,Is jSick with pneumonia. J' iH
PUBLIC SALES.
J. R. Gilson at the Marion Moore farm in Blue River township, 9 miles southeast of Greenfield, 1 mile east of Shiloh church, 3% miles north of Morristown, anL#£ miles south of Westland, Thurs^-f February 27th, 1913.
Elwood Barnard, Monday, March 3d, at 10 a. m., on his farm, 1% miles northeast of Eden and first house east of Barnard's sorghum factory.
J. S. and L. R. Land, on the Clayton farm 3% miles northwest of Greenfield, and 2 miles northi of Goble's fruit farm, and 4 miles southeast of Mohawk, Wednesday, March 4, 1913.
Arthur M. Campbell, 1 mile west' and ¥2 mile south of Mohawk, 3 miles east of Mt. Comfort, on the Honey Bee Line, Stop 14, Thursday, March 6th, at 10 o'clock.
Hatfield and Wyse, at the Hatfield farm, 100 rods south of Cleveland, 2 miles west and mile south off Charlottesville, 6% miles southeast of Greenfield, Wednesday, March 5, 1913.
Riley Siders will have a stock sale Tuesday, March 11, 1913, at his farm 7 miles southeast of Greenfield, iV2 miles north of Morristown, Hi miles west of Shiloh church.
Theo. Hargrove, on his farm, miles north of Morristown, near tht Shiloh church, and 7 miles southeast of Greenfield, Friday, February 28th.
Clay Martindale, on his old home farm two miles north of Willow Branch, and two miles west of Warrington, on the Warington and Eden Pike, Tuesday, February 25, 1913.
VV. O. RUGGLES BUYS FARM
He is a Good Fanner and SuccessStoekman—Has Made Money.
W. O. Ruggles, of near Charlottesville, was in Greenfield Friday advertising his public sale for Tuesday, March 25th. Mr. Ruggles has a large amount of stock, hay, corn and farming implements to sell. He has been on the Craft farm for several years, but he recently contracted for the farm north of Charlottesville, owned by George Haman, and the deeds and otjier papers are being drawn up. ,,Mr» Ruggles is a'successful farmer and stock raiser. He came to Indiana from Kentucky a few years ago, and has farmed some of the good farms in the county and has made and saved his money until now he is able to buy a farm of his oWn. He was on the Banks farm, northeast of Greenfield for three years.
Rents Large Orchard.
Leonard Hopkins, the well known fruit grower, has rented a fine orchard of eighteen acres near Markleville. He and Carey Keaton took two wagon loads of spraying ma*terials and apparatus to Markleville a few days ago. He will begin spraying in about six weeks.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Hancock county, State of Indiana, administrator of the Estate of George W. Duncan, late of Hancock County, deceased.
Said estate is supposed to be solvent. WILLIAM C. DUNCAN, Administrator.
Feb. 15, 1913. 20w3
The case or Sylvester Burk vs. J. Clay Duncan and Mary Duncan, which was on trial in the Marion county court all last week, was" finished Saturday, the jury returning a verdict for the defendants. ,•
Men's suits worth $15.00, special $9.98. Spot Cash Co-Op. Store. 20d2-wi