Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 20 March 1913 — Page 8

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OLD SPRING HAT

can be made to look like new with the aid of

COLORITE

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THE REST EGG DYES

Our packages of Easter Dyes this season are full of interest and entertainment for the little folks.

All sorts of colors, designs and combinations. FUN for the Children.

These Dyes are so easy to use and give so much pleasure that none of the little folks should be overlooked. 5 Cents Per Package.

MAIL ORDERS receive PROMPT ATTENTION

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BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS

•g. 4. Miss Ruth Hafner is on the sick list.

Claude Parish has accepted a position at Richmond.

L. T. Ellis transacted business at Indianapolis Tuesday.

"William Moore spent Tuesday at Indianapolis on business.

Money to loan on first mortgage. Paul F. Binford. 13d-tf-w-tf

Hoss Davis and Simon Koin were at Indianapolis on business Tuesday.

Mrs. Lucian Curry is at Richmond today visiting her nephew, Robert McKuhn, who is very sick.

James Quigley has been the guest of friends at Indianapolis for a fewdays.

Pat Flatly, of St. Louis, was. the guest of M. C. Quigley and family Tuesday.

Alfred Wilhelm, of R. R. is reported as being improved.

Mrs. Claude Keller, of Dunreith, was the guest of relatives in this city today.

Found—A gold ring. Owner can have same by paying for this advertisement. Phone 511. 19d3-wl

or Sale S. C. Buff Orpington eggs per setting, 50c. Geo. C. Pope, Greenfield, R. 7. Phone Maxwell. 18d6-eod-w2-pd

Mrs. Earl Lynam and Mrs. Joseph Reedle, of Muncie, are visiting Mrs. Florence Hawk, of New Castle.

Miss Edith Bryarjt, of Irvington, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Clyde Townsend.

John M. Hufford is attending to sogne insurance matters in Madison county this week.

These spring days call us to work. Leave early calls with "Big Ben," shown in the window at The A. S. Orr Jewelry Store, Gooding Corner, Greenfield, Ind. I9dl-wl

Ralph Tapscott and Marie Justice were guests of friends and relatives at Markleville Tuesday.

Mrs. Thomas Gettle, daughter, Martha, and Madeline Downing have gone to Winchester for a few days' visit. -1 zt

W. C. Welborn, formerly of this city, but now of Evansville, was in Greenfield on legal business one or two days this week. He is delighted with his new home and reports a jflne business.

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TAKE EMOTIONS

Civil Service To Be Extended1,500 Postmasters Will Be Put To the Test.

Plans are on foot which in all probabilities will throw more than 1,500 Indiana postoflices open to civil service competition. Fourthclass postmasters are compelled to take the examination in order to hold their jobs, and the examination will be open to all entries.

It is anticipated that a great number of postmasters will relinquish the office rather than to take the examination and subject themselves to a civil service test along with other applicants who have had all the advantages of modern scholarship. The last report showred that there are over 50,000 fourth class postmasters in the United States.

"THE RAT MUST 60 BE

Destroys Property, Carries Disease Germs and

is

a Menace to

the Civilized World.

In many homes the rat does a great deal of damage by eating the food supplies, and his board bill is an expensive- proposition, so that today the rat is undoubtedly the most dangerous and expensive pest that afflicts humanity. He not only destroys millions of dollars' worth of property, but promotes the plague, carrying disease germs and plague fleas from one part of the world to another. The United Slates, England, Germany, Japan and other countries have already taken steps to annihilate the rat, through action of their health or agricultural departments, and every household should co-operate in this work.

The rat is now known to be the chief agent in sheading the bubonic plague, the dread disease that within the past ten years has destroyed millions of human beings in India, China and other Eastern countries and which was only prevented from spreading in the U. S. b/ the vigorous work of Surgeon Rupert Blue and his associates in killing off the rats on the Pacific Coast.

The rapidity with which rats multiply is the main reason why there is so little headway in their extermination. More than twenty young rats have been found in a single nest, and it is estimated that a single pair of rats and their progeny would, if none was killed, in three years increase to more than ten millions.

This is the best time in the year to kill rats, as the cold weather has a tendency to drive rats and mice into homes and thus concentrate them. Fighting rats is the same as fighting anything else. The enemy should be starved by keeping food supplies in rat-proof containers, and killed by an active and effective agent such as a reliable paste that can be bought in handy 25c packages from almost any druggist, the kind mentioned by the government in the report on the extermination of rats at San Francisco. In selecting the proper poison, ask for one that is sold under guarantee of money back if it fails, and then in case the rats are not killed off the purchaser can get another kind without loss.

The extermination of rats is a form of health and property insurance which protects the health of the whole community and not only should Boards of Health make systematic efforts on a large scale to kill off the rats, but every house holder should give his or her personal aid in exterminating this destructive pest. The rat is under sentence of extinction, and must go.

INITIAL ON NEW NICKEL

Treasury Department Receives Protest Against Artist's Initial. Numerous protests have been made to the treasury department against the initial "F" of the artist, Fazer," appearing on the new fivecent piece, and caused the treasury department to declare that Ithis was customary on practically all coins of the United States and other nations. On some of the coins of foreign countries the full name of the artist appears.

Close, observation will reveal the fact that the initial "M" appears on our silver dollar and there are quite a number of different initials appearing on the coin familiarly known to us as the dime.

«LETTER RECEIVED FROM CALIFORNIA

Written To the Late Ira Roberts Received After His Death— Publication Requested.

The following:is a copy of a letter written by Flora V. Curry, at Sebast'opol, CaL to Ira Roberts, of Fortville, but Mr. Roberts had answered death's call before the letter was received, and the family requested that the letter be published. It reads as follows: "Sebastopol, Cal., Mar. 3, 1913. "Mr. Ira Roberts, Fortville, Ind. "Dear Sir:—Will attempt to write the promised letter today, having waited so long in order to tell you about the different things we have seen. Today is a beautiful day, was cloudy this morning, but by 10 o'clock the clouds had vanished and at 12 the thermometer stood at 70 degrees. We have the doors open and windows up. The gardens are looking fine and we have had lettuce, new onions and greens. "We are now at Santa Rosa, visiting Albert's uncle and aunt. They owned a large farm (a farm is called a ranch here), and sold it for $200 an acre and moved to town to spend the rest of their life in leisure. They live in a nice fiveroom house, just outside of the city limits have a few chickens, a horse, and R. F. D. mail, and it is a nice little walk up town. We visited. Albert's aunt, Mrs. Ben Williams, and family for five weeks. They live on a large ranch about five miles from Sebastopol have about 50 acres of mammoth blackberries, and about every six rows of the berries they have a row of Gravenstein apples, which ripen in Augusl^ They have a dairy, and milk 55 cows. The cows run on a large pasture the year round and during winter when pasture is a little short they feed them some alfalfa. They sell their cream to a creamery and have about 70 gallons a week. This is a great country for White Leghorn chickens-^-each ranch having from 400 to 2,000 chicks. Many of them are ready to sell their chicks now, as they say their expense is greater than their income, as eggs are only 13c per dozen. "Santa Rosa was badly damaged by the earthquake, only three business buildings left standing, but it is all built up again. Albert had an uncle killed there. The earthquake was on Tuesday and they didn't get the building removed where he was until Friday. This country is not irrigated, the rainfall for the year is 30 inches and during the summer heavy fogs prevail, which make everything grow. They grow prunes, peache's, berries, apricots, grapes and all kinds of apples English walnuts, some lemons, oranges, oats, corn and figs. It is a fine place to live, and one can have plenty of money by working hard. "Our journey out here was very pleasant and the scenery grand. We were met at Los Angeles by Eunice Barrett Keating and husband had a nice visit there for three weeks, and while there we visited several places of interest. Mt. Lowe which is near Pasadena, is one mile high. We went by trolley car to the cable incline station, and then went up the incline, 3,000 feet long and a 1,300 foot rise. We felt like we were going straight up. At the top we took a narrow gauge electric car and went to the Alpine Inn. The electric line has 127 curves and crosses 27 bridges. Some times we could see the track we had just gone over just below us. At this Alpine Inn We could get our dinners and then climb the remainder of the mountain to Summit, by horseback or by foot. The distance from the inn to Summit is 2VZ

miles

winding around the mountain. "We went to the beach one day, watched the waves roll over the sand the gulls fly from wave to wave. One day we went to the Catalina Islands. They are'quite a distance from shore. While there wept 6ut in a glass bottom boat and saw the1 marine gardens —a grand sight. The water is very clear. "On day we visited the Crawston Ostrich farm. These birds are immense, two of which were captured in Africa and valued at $3,000 each. Their plumes are beautiful and almost any of these birds can reach an orange twenty feet high. Nearly every visitor gives them an orange. They are feed on alfalfa hay mostly. "We attended the tournament of roses New Years day at Pasadena, and it was a grand sight. The parade was two hours in passing and all floats were made of flowers gathered in the town. "We visited Mary Cranfill Cooper in Qrange county four days—saw sand ranches there. The Santa An­

na river goes through that county and a greater part of the soil is sand, but they raise great crops. We saw the largest pumpkins there that I ever saw. They crib their sweet potatoes there like we do our corn. One man had 6,000 bushels in cribs. Also while there we ate the best oranges I ever tasted they were over a year old, and so sweet. We also saw the largest lemons we ever saw and ate all the English walnuts we wanted which was a whole lot. Had a fine visit and Mary .seemed to enjoy every moment 'of our stay. This county is irrigated by wells. "We visited two cousins of ours in Imperial county, This valley is irrigated by the Colorado river and is one of the most productive spots in California. Canteloupes and watermelons are raised there by the hundred car loads. They had their seed planted when we were there in January. They put the earliest melons on the market in the state. They also raise cotton, kafir corn, alfalfa, barley, fruit and vegetables. Seldom ever rains and they don't want rain, because it bakes the soil. This valley is warm. It is below sea level from 122 to 202 feet. The thermometer stands at 110 in July, but was quite cool when we were there. We were there during California's cold wave when so many oranges were frozen. I liked that valley best of any place we have visited. "From Brawley, one of the valley towns, we came to San cisco by the Valley Railroad. The scenery was fine and one place, three-quarters of a mile away in a little valley, we could see a town and the train was two hours in get-! ting to the town. We went through 1 el os A el to San Francisco, the longest being 1 y2 miles. From San Francisco came to Santa Rosa. Have attei. ed the Citrus Fair at Cloverdale, and expect to visit several places yet, and one more aunt. Will arrive home some time in April. All well. Yours respectfully. "FLORA Y. CURRY."

OBITUARY

Andrew Jackson Watson, son of William and Dorothy Watson, was born in Brown county, Ohio, Aug. 29th, 1856, and passed into the great beyond on the morning of March 1, 1913, aged 56 years, 6 months and 2 days. He was bereft of a father's care at a very early age, and he, with the brothers and sisters, cared for the mother until 26 years ago., when she, too, passed to her reward.

Mr. Watson was united in marriage to Anna Carson, April 23d, 1878. He was a carpenter and contractor, and had carefully and actively carried on his work until last summer when his health began to fail rapidly, and since that time he has been almost a constant sufferer. All that medical skill and careful nursing could do failed to arrest his disease, and he gradually grew weaker until death with his cycle keen, cut'down his life. Thus we see that in the midst of life we are in death.

On last Friday morning he called his family to his bedside and told them he would like to stay with them, but that he realized he could not, and that he was ready to meet the Bridegroom and requested them all to meet him in heaven.

He leaves to mourn his death the widow, four sons, Jesse, Arthur, John and Harvey one daughter, Mrs. Raymond Scott also four grandchildren. He also leaves one brother and one sister two halfbrothers, two half-sisters, and other relatives and friends.

He and his faithful wife at one time united with the Methodist church. He was a firm believer in his Blessed Savior. He has been a member of the Morning Star Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Wilkinson, for fourteen years.

To you upon whose lives the sorrow casts such a gloom, let your hearts look up to Him who doeth all things well, and He will comfort you as no earthly friend can.

He is gone but not forgotten, And our loss we deeply feel Still we trust our Loving Savior,

He can all our sorrows heal.

Remember well, kind sons, How tender is a father's care, But he could not ®ay longer,

God has taken him above.

Now, never mourn, kind daughter, For he has gone to rest, With his Lord and Savior

He is tculy blest.

Now, fare thee well, dear father, We'll leave thee to thy rest, In the Savior's arms reposing,

Leaning on His gentle breast.

Mrs. Roland Jessup and daughter, Lucile, of Charlottesville, are the guests of her mother, Mrs. Wm. McGraw.

When the officers peremptorily halted them, the boys thought they were being pulled for violating the speed law, but when the Mayor and Marshal and the newspaper man piled into the rear seat, the Mayor explained to the frightened young men that he desired to convert the automobile into a patrol wagon for the purpose of arresting some disturbers of the peace. The autoists were so relieved in their own escape that they gladly followed the direction of the officers and landed them so quickly at the corner of Pierson and State streets that the disturbers had no time to escape.

When the officers arrived at the house everything was as quiet as a funeral and two men in the front room reported that they were not aware of any disturbance or trouble and had not seen anyone. The officers, however, paid no attention to their story, and proceeded to search the house. In a bed-room they discovered a young Richey, known about town by the name of "Pug," lying on a bed apparently sound asleep. A peep under another bed in the same room by the Mayor revealed the presence of Samuel Campbell, who came out smiling, cajoling Marshal Shumway as he crawled. The Mayor had no trouble in rousing Richey from his heavy sleep (?). With Richey in his charge, the Mayor told the Marshall to bring Campbell.

Richey was very much intoxicated and was reluctant to be taken by the officers, but a vigorous shaking by the city officers produced reasonable docility and they were soon loaded into the temporary auto-patrol and landed in the county jail. The officers had not returned to the Mayor's office until there was a call from the jail asking that they come and- place Richey in a cell, as he was fighting some of the other prisoners. By the time the officers reached the jail, however, Richey was reported to be again in the land of dreams.

All the women in the south part of the city, it seems, had heard the disturbance at the LaFollett home, and were out on the street when the officers arrived, and were much pleased to see them. Mr. and Mrs. LaFollett were not at home when the officers made their visit.

HOARD'S DAIRYMAN OFFER Arrangements have been made by which The Reporter and Hoard's Dairyman can be supplied in combination for $2.65 The Weekly Republican and Hoard's Dairyman for $1.65. Hoard's Dairyman is a regular dollar paper, and it has a high standing among the leading dairymen of the country. No man who keeps cows should be without it. ,4d-w-tf

William Jackson, of Maxwell, was here today on business.

•The Citizens9 Bank CORN SHOW.

WE want every corn grower in Hancock County to have one of our circulars on how to select good seed corn and grow the best corn. These circulars will also contain rules and regulations A regarding the corn show to be given by THE CITIZENS BANK next fall. The circulars will be ready for distribution by March 15, 1913, and will be free to everyone. Come in and get one.

The Citizens' Bank

Jas* R* Boyd, Pres. Geo. H. Cooper, Cashier Wm. B. Bottsford, Asst. Cashier

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EII RIG HAUL

Myers and Shumway Confiscate and Convert Auto Into Patrol—Find Disturbers Under the Bed.

While Mayor Ora Myers and Marshal Wm. Shumway were sitting quietly in the Mayor's oftice Friday afternoon, discussing how many days a glass-blower had irawn on two counts in the forenoon police court, a violent ring at i,he telephone interrupted the dismission and brought the Mayor to lis feet in a jiffy. A female voice 'Jie other end of the wire announced that "rough-house methods were in process at the home of jhn LaFollette on the south side ot Pierson street. The Mayor and Marshal Shumway, accompanied by a Reporter man, started for the scene of hostilities. Just as the trio emenged from the court house, George Tnayer and Walter Myers rounded the Gooding corner into South State street in a five-passen-ger car at a speed that might not stand too close inspection.

ADVERTISED LETTERS

Following is a list of letters remaining uncalled for in the postoffice at Greenfield, Ind., March 20:

Mr. F. L. Bauer. Cleo Jenkins. Miss Hortense^ Powell. Indiana Sterns. Fletcher Warman. Mr. O. P. Woodruff. Mr. Walter Woerner. Persons calling for the above letters will please say "advertised"

WM. C. DUNCAN, Postmaster.

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Miss Enza Wickard is very sick with rheumatism at the hon# of her uncle, David Wickard.

Rev. J. S. Clawson, of this city, is assisting in a revival meeting at Allentown, Ind.

Blacksmithing

RATE

Buggy Tires set, per wheel 25 New Iron Tire New Steel Tire

75

and new

Rim L50

Old Tires Set and new Rim l.og

Rubber Tires Put on at Reasonable Prices

Buy your Rubber Tires of a mail order house, or where you Dlease, I will furnish the wire and put them on for SO cents a wheel.

Above prices are good until April 2tth

16 Years at the'Trade I repair anytliing from a clock to an automobile. Castings brazed.

R. E. BUSSELL

MAXWELL, IND.

PENNSYLVANIA TIME TABLE (In Effect Nov. 24,1912) TRAINS GOING WEST S-TrainNo.35 10:38PM

Train No. 11 Mail 7:38 PM Train No. 7 2:29 PM Train No. 31 11:15 AM S-Train No. 33 Local 11:50 AM S-Train No. 21 Through.... 11:03 AM

Train No. 45 Mail 11:17 AM S-Train No. 25 Mail 6:35 AM Local Freight 1:35 PM

TRAINS GOING EAST Train No. 18 4:08 PM S-Train No. 32 Mail 8:06 AM

Train No. 14 Mail 3:43 AM S-Train No. 20 Mail 3:33 PM S-Train No. 8 Mail 5:22 PM

Train No. 30 6:37 PM S-Train No. 24 7:49 PM Train No. 44 11:19 PM

Local Freight 6:35AM "S" Denotes trains stopping. Pick-up local freights will leave Indianapolis and Richmond each morning (except Sunday) at 6:30 o'clock. These freights will do switching at the local stations.

T. a. I. & E. TIME TABLE WEST BOtJND 5:18 A. M. 6:28 A. M. 7:18 A. M. 8:20 A. M. 9:17 Limited... A. M. 9:37 Limited P. M. 10:20 A. M, 12:20 P. M. 1:17 Limited P. M. 2:20 ....^ P. M. 3:f7 Limited P. M. 3:20 Except Sunday P. M. 4:20 p. M. 5:17 Limited p. M. 6:20 M. 7:17 Limited p. m. 9:37 p,M. 10:59 P.M.

EAST-BOUND

6:10 Car Barn to Newcastle.. A. M. 8:11 A. M. 6:00 ToKnightstownonly.... A. M,

A. M.

§:15 Limited A. M. 9:10 A. M» 10:15 Limited A. M. *1:10 A. 12:15 Limitod P. M. 1:10 p. M. 2:15 Limited P. M. 3:10 p. M. 4:15 Limited P. M. 5:10 p. H. 6:15 Limited P. 7jl0 P.M. 9:10 (Stops at Greenfield).... P. M. 10HW *. P.M. 12:30 Greenfield only.. A. M.