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HEENFIELD REPUBLICAN

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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

•••and at the postoffice, Greenfield, Ind., a SMODd class matter.

SPENCER PUBLISHING CO. Newton R. Spencer, Editor & Mgr.

OBITUARIES $1.00 CARDS OF THANKS .... .25

HM SCHOOLS ARE AHEAD OF OTHERS

Superintendent of Carlisle School Gives His Opinion Why Boys Leave the Farm

Carlisle, March 24.—Declaring the Indian schools of the country are years in advance of the public schools in the various states for •white children, where agricultural training is concerned, M. Friedman, superintendent of the Carlisle Indian school, in his annual report, criticises the schools for whites for retarding progress along this line, and observes that the Carlisle institution is one of the first to "blaze the trail." He adds that hundreds of educators visit the school each year to gain a closer insight into the work. "For years," he says, "there has been a tendency in our public schools to educate the boys and girls away from the farm and toward the activities of the city, notwithstanding the fact that a large element of our population is now resident in the country districts and must remain so for many years to xome. "In fact, in thousands of the little 'red school houses' of the country districts, the course of instruction has absolutely no relation whatever to the needs of the boy and girl on the farm. Little or no instruction is given inculcating the right ideas and sane methods of farming or in teaching the girl something of the practical duties of home life on the farm. "To a large extent the same method prevails in the city -schools, where the education of the pupil concerns itself practically entirely with preparing the less than onetenth for the high school and giving the nine-tenths of the school population which leaves school before the high school no instruction of a practical character which fits for the dual responsibilities of right living and earning a livelihood. "The Carlisle Indian school lays special stress on instruction in agriculture because most of the students own farm land and have an allotment of from forty acres of land among the Lima Indians, to as high as seven hundred acres among the Osage Indians. "The instruction in agriculture is -of a most practical character. Thorough instruction 'is given in the class rooms in nature study, and in JLhe elements of agriculture. The studies are supplemental and amplified on the school farms, which are conducted as nearly as possible in the same way as a thrifty, business man would conduct a farm for profit. "It has been found by experience that instruction in farming is made more thorough when the student is impressed with the value of time and the economy of materials, hence the two large farms in connection with the school have small classes of boys assigned to work on them, who handle their work in the same way that a thrifty farmer would. Instead of having 50 to 100 boys working in a dilettante fashion on the farm, wasting their efforts and gaining a dilettante conception of labor, six or eight young men are assigned at a time and are given the most practical and comprehensive training. We feel that unless a school farm of this kind is farmed intensively and pays and the boy gains a personal knowledge of the .meaning of work and of farm life, .actual harm can be done when

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real life are met." the report it is shown that I from July 1, 1911, to June 30, 1912, the value of the products from two farms amounted to $9,640.35, and the actual cost of production was §#2,642.80. gvf,- -Supi Friedman continues: "In too many schools where industrial training is given elaborate machinery is used and an inordinately large number of boys work at a 'J task, so that when their school life 5^ is over and these young people run

W4 up *against the limitations of their J'Own environment, they become dis-ip-couraged because they do not have Inexpensive machinery or a large p&force of workmen. In all if its trade activities and particularly in farming, the aim of the Carlisle .school is to fit the training for the

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Indian boy's future environment. "Each year the Indians are making more progress in farming, and in the last few years the acreage which they are farming has doubled —likewise the products have increased. Hundreds of returned students and graduates are farming, in the West, and their farms compare favorably with the best farms of white men who live near them."

ENGLISH'S OPERA HOUSE

The International "Ben Hur" For The Week of March 31st.

Spectacular magnificence, dramatic splendor and religious ecstacy are the most notable concommitants of Klaw and Erlanger's international production of "Ben Hur' which will be the offering at English's opera house, Indianapolis, the entire week of March 31st, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. Dramatized from the immortal book by General Lew Wallace, who wrote the most of the great story at his home in Crawfordsville, Ind., the drama is now in the fourteenth year before the people.

Dealing with the earthly life of Jesus, the most important period in any history, "Ben Hur" shows the world at its most wonderful point in magnificence and wealth, for Rome ruled the world and Caesar was emperor of the mightiest realm the world had ever known. Into this time of display and pomp came the lowly Nazarene, and it is this npersonality of Jesus for whom the nation had longed, permeating the fabric of the Wallace drama, that makes it a sermon as well as a drama of tremendous significance.

Nothing more realistic than the great chariot race in the arena of the Circus of Antioch, with Ben Hur and Massala contesting for supremacy, has ever been imagined by a dramatist or executed by a producer.

Reach's 1913 Guide

The 1913 Reach American League Guide—the official handbook of the great junior major league, presided over by the famous Ban Johnson— has just made its ever welcome appearance, thus ushering in one more base ball season a function which it has fulfilled each spring for thirty-one consecutive years. This long term embraces virtually two base ball generations, assuming that fifteen years measure one generation in a field in which events move swiftly and the actors make their entrances and exits in painfully quick time. So, this long continuity of publication alone has served to make the Reach Baseball Guide the Standard Annual publication of the base ball world, without considering the merits of the contents of the book. But, combining time and quality, we have a publication which simply stands alone in its chosen field in every way, including the literary contents, official records, illustrations, quality~of paper, serviceable binding and general typographical excellence. The Guide also contains the most important requisite to give it official stamp and public value, namely, the revised and correct new uniform Playing Rules Code for 1913, together with the 1913 championship schedules of the American League, National League and various important minor leagues. The legislation and results of the annual meetings of the American League and National League are also set forth. In short, everything of interest or value, either for -record or reference, will be found within the covers of this great book, which is thus really a complete history of base ball in 1912. The Reach American League Guide for 1913 is for sale by all newsdealers at 10 cents the copy, or order it from A. J. Reach Co., Philadelphia, Pa.

New Bank at Markleville The new Markleville Bank is doing an excellent business in their fine new brick building which they recently erected. The town has been incorporated and a contract has been let for two miles of cement sidewalks.

George W. Davis returned Saturday night from a business trip at South Bend, Gary and Chicago for the Specialty Manufacturing Go.

YOU EVER SEE

Anyone accumulate a fortune and carry it around with him? Don't you often read in the papers about people who lose the savings of a lifetime by concealing them in unsafe places? The best place for money, while awaiting use, is in a good, strong bank, and there's none bOtter or stronger than the

CAPITAL STATE BANK Capital, Fifty Thousand Dollars

OFFICERS

J. L. BINFORD, PICES. W. J. THOMAS, ASS'T. CASHIER

C. M. CURRY, V.-PRES N. C. BINFORD. CASHIER

Col. W. I. Burnside, auctioneer. OtisC. Snyder, Clerk

Public Sale

Administratrix's Sale of Personal Property

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned administratrix of the estate of Willie B. McPuffie, late of Hancock^County, Ind., will sell at public sale at his late residence in Buck Creek Township, 1% miles south of Mt. Comfort, Ind.. and 3 miles northwest of Gem, Ind., on

Thursday, April 3d, 1913

at 10 o'clock a. m., the following personal property, to-wit: FOUR HORSES—One bay gelding, 6 years old, weighing about 1,100 lbs. one black mare, 5 years old, in foal one black mare, 7 years old one black gelding.

TWO MILK COWS and one brood sow. 400 Bushels of Corn 75 bushels of White Oats. Baled Oats Straw, Timothy and Clover Seed.

FARMING IMPLEMENTS Two Studebaker wagons, two hay beds, two gravel beds, two double riding cultivators, two walking breaking plows, one Oliver breaking plow, one l-horse cultivator, two spring tooth harrows, two sets of double harness, two sets fly nets, halters, ropes and blocks, spring seat, collars, forks, scoops, double trees, single tree and other articles not mentioned.

TERMS OF SALE All sums over $5 cash. Over that amount a credit of 8 months will be given, purchaser to execute a good bankable note drawing 6 per cent after maturity. No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with.

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OLLIE McDUFFIE, ADM

Chauncey W. Duncan, Att'y for Estate. Lunch served by Ladies Aid Society of Amity. d28Apl 1 w27

Correct S. S. Convention Date. A mistake occurred in the printed programs of the Hancock County Sunday School Convention of all denominations. The correct date is FRIDAY, MARCH 28TH. The convention will occur at the Bradley M. E. church in Greenfield. Every person interested in Sunday school work is cordially invited to attend. Remember, the correct date is Friday, March 28th. 1913.

MILO GOODPASTURE, Pres.

Combination Offer.

The Spencer Publishing Company has arranged with the National Stockman and Farmer for a combination with the Daily Reporter and Weekly Republican. The Daily Reporter and the National Stockman and Farmer by mail for one year, $2.70 the Weekly Republican and the National Stockman and Farmer for one year by mail, $1.70. The National Stockman is one of the greatest stock and agricultural papers in the whole country. It gives with each subscription a beautiful calendar of 1913. tf

Emery Justice, who with his family n^oved to Des Moines, Iowa, has returned and resumed his old position with Hardy & Son at Markleville. He says that the Hardy Co. is a great firm for "comebacks." He is a nephew of Dr. W. A. Justice of this city.

PUBLIC SALES.

Line G. Boden, at his farm 1Y* miles north of Maxwell, and

GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY. MARCH 27, 1913 .'/

miles south of Eden, Monday, March 31, 1913.

Andrew Ormston at his residence, one-half mile north of Charlottesville, Thursday, March 27, 1913.

Ira Roberts Estate, 2 miles north and mile west of Maxwell, 1% miles south and mile west of Eden, on Wednesday, April 2d.

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Liedl, of R. R. 1, were here Saturday on business.

Romney Mitchell, of Middletown, Ohio, was the guest of Miss Eliza Mitchell Sunday.

is James Burnside is visiting relatives near Russellville.

State Can Grow Own Sugar, Adding $15,000,000 Yearly to Industrial

Wealth.

"The average American consumes eighty-two pounds of sugar each year, and only ten pounds of that ration are now produced in this country. The farmers of the country should keep that mooey at home—in other words, put it in their own pockets."

The foregoing statement appears in a bulletin which the Department of Agriculture has just issued reviewing the progress of the beet sugar industry during the past year. The report proceeds to point out that while the production of sugar from beets has advanced very rapidly, more than 5,000,000 tons of beets having been grown last season, 2,000,000 acres additional should be devoted to this crop in order to produce at home the sugar now purchased from abroad.

This is a subject of particular interest to Indiana for the reason that this state lies in the center of one of the most important beet sugar producing sections of the country. Not only have repeated tests in sugar beet growing demonstrated that Indiana soil is adapted to the production of this valuable crop, but the successful operation during the past season of the state's first beet sugar factory has proved it conclusively. Although the season was an unfavorable one and most of the farmers growing beets

EN AN INDIANA SUGAlt BEET FIELD.

were unfamiliar with the handling of this new crop, the results obtained by the new plant at Decatur show that Indiana is capable of maintaining a beet sugar factory ID every county, throughout a large portion of the state at least, and that the state could easily produce not only all the sugar required for home consumption, but also, if necessary, could grow and manufacture half of all the sugar required by the United States.

Some figures from the actual operations of the beet sugar plant at Decatur during the past year will give some suggestion of the possibilities, of this industry for Indiana. Aside from the Investment of $1,000,000 or more, which the plant Itself represents, the factory paid out to the farmers who grew beets about $550,000. Some $75,000 was paid out In wages to factory and field operatives. The railways of the state received from the transportation of beets, sugar and supplies over $100,000. while considerable sums were distributed for limestone, cotton bagging and other articles required In the process of manufacture. Thus about three-quarters of a million dollars was distributed through various channels of Indiana industry as a result of the establishment of a single beet sugar factory within the borders of the state.

According to the estimates of the statistical bureaus at Washington the people of Indiana consume over 100,000 tons of sugar a year for which they pay $12,500,000 or more. Previous to this year all of this, money went outside the state, most of it to the great trust refineries of the eastern seaboard. Most of it still goes there. If. however. Indiana produced from her own soil only enough sugar for the use of her home population all this money would go Into the various channels of home industry, and It would make a yearly difference of $25,000,000 in the trade balance of the state.

That is. only one, and the less important, of the beneficial results that would follow the utilization of a comparatively small portion of Indiana's farm lands for the production of the sugar, which the people of the state are consuming in yearly Increasing quantities. Of still greater value would be Its effect in adding tremendously to the farm wealth of the state by increasing the yield of other crops grown In rotation with sugar beets. Experience in countries like France and Germany, where sugar beets'have been grown for uiany years on a large

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mm WEALTH FOR INDIANA

Larger Yields of All Crops Following Beet Culture Boost Value of

Farm Lands.

scale, show that from land which is planted to this crop one year in four the yield of wheat, oats and other cereals grown in the intervening years is increased from 50 to 80 per cent Records collected from American farmers in sections where beet culture has been followed for a number of years show that the yield of other crops grown in rotation with beets has increased an average of 44 per cent. The yield of wheat on these lands advanced from 26.9 bushels per acre to 43.1. Corn went up from 41.6 bushels to 53.1 and oats from 40.9 to 60.6 bushels. The effect of the deep plowing and thorough cultivation required by sugar beets in boosting the yields of the other crops grown in successive years is all the more striking, as the yields obtained by these farmers before beginning sugar beet cultivation were well above the average. Applying this rate of increase to Indiana farms would mean that the agricul-' tural wealth of the state would be increased $25,000,000 a year by the general adoption of sugar beet growing.

Not only does the establishment of the sugar beet industry add directly to the wealth of the state from the money it brings in or keeps at home and indirectly through the increase of other farm crops grown in rotation with beets, but it also adds greatly to the market value of farm lands.

In Michigan, where the sugar beet industry has reached such proportions that the state produces all its own sugar and ships a considerable amount to other markets, its effect upon farm values and business prosperity in the sections surrounding the factories is clearly marked. Many of the farms in these districts were heavily mortgaged ten years ago. The mortgages have been paid off so rapidly that today almost the only farms in the sugar country that are not debt free are those that have been bought in the past few years by newcomers who want to share in the prosperity that accompanies this crop. Bank deposits have gone up The sellers of agricultural implements, dry goods men and dealers in all other linos tell of improved sales and report that collections of bills are made with much greater promptness w7herever the sugar industry has been introduced.

C. A. Dugan, a banker of Decatur, who has watched the development of the industry there, keeping careful rec ord of business transactions in the city, has estimated that the value of land in the city and on the surrounding farms for a distance of several miles has risen nearly 25 per cent since the factory's establishment. This is not surprising in view of the fact that in every case where the beet sugar industry has been established in any part of thfi country a gain of from 30 to 100 per cent has taken place in land value-) within three or four years. When the beet sugar factory at Paulding, O., not far from Decatur, was started two years ago the same upward tendency of land prices was observed, and it has been found that the increase since that time has totaled more than $5. 000,000 in Paulding county alone.

The adjoining state of Michigan, whose soil produces beets In no way superior to those of Indiana, now has seventeen beet sugar factories. Indiana could support no less than 166 if all the available land were used for the crop only one year in four. While this figure represents a distant possibility, there Is no reason why the state should not have from fifteen to twenty-five such establishments. Taking the low est figure, fifteen factories would mean that when they were well under way the state would have a yearly in come of $15,000,000 a year for sugai alone. Of this huge sum $8,500,000 would go directly to the farmers for their beets, $1,500,000 would go to the 4,000 or 5,000 workmen who would be given employment and the greater part of the remainder would stay within the state. The increase in land values would be almost too great to estimatecertainly not less than $40,000,000.

From the results obtained in the pro duction of beet sugar in Adams county and surrounding sections and from tests iti growiug beets in other parts of the state, which show that Indiana can produce as high a grade of sugar beets as any state in the country, there is no doubt that If the policy of grow ing within the United States the sugai to feqd the American people continues to receive the encouragement of the federal government as it has in the past fifteen years, Indiana will take a leading part in the sugar beet industry and through It will add millions of dollars to her annual wealth. That the upbuilding of this industry is lmpor tant to the consumers as well as to the producers of the state was shown plainly enough in 1911 when the price of sugar, which had gone skyrocketing up to 10 cents a pound and was being held at $0.75 to $7.50 per hundred pounds wholesale by the trust and other refin ers, came tnmbllng down to Its normal level as soon as the yield of tbe sugar beet fields came niton tbe market

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T. H. I. & E. TIME TABLE WESl, BOUND 6:18 .... 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. 3:17 Limited P. M. 3:20 Except Sunday P. M. 4:20 P. M. 5:17 Limited P. M. 6:20 p„ M. 7:17 Limited p. BL 9:37 P.M. 10:59 P.M.

EAST-BOUND

5:10 Gar Barn to Newcastle.. A. M. 8:11 A. M. 8:00 ToKnightetownonly.... A. BL 7:11 A. M. 8:16 Limited A. M. 9:10 A. If. 10:15 Limited A. M. 11:10 A. M. 12:15 Limited P. M. 4:10 P. M. 2:15 Limited P. M. 3:10 p. M. 4:i5 Limited P. M. 5:10 p. M. 6:15 Limited P. M. 7^10 P. M. 9:10 (Stops at Greenfield).... P.M. 10:05 P.M. 12:30 Greenfield only A. M.

PENNSYLVANIA TIME TABLE (In Effect Nov. 24, 1912) TRAINS GOING WEST S-Train No. 35 10:38 PM

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 6:35 AM "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.

Wall Paper

Just because one design happens to be a little more attractive we do not ask you more for it

buys our Wall Paper that usually sells from 12c to 20c. This includes our heavy varnished gilts. Nothing but new 1913 patterns in our stock.

J. C. Foster

Sheriff's Sale

Office of the Sheriff of Hancock County, 5 Greenfield, Indiana, March 22,1918.1 BY VIRTUE of a certified copy of a decreeto me directed

between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M, of said day, at the north door of the Court House, in the city of Greenfield,, County and State aforesaid, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven (7) years, the following described real estate, to-wit:

Commeneingat the southwest cornerof Lot number fourteen (14) in Block number twenty-four (24) in the Original Plat of the Town, now city of Greenfield, Indiana, thence north on the west line thereof to the northwest corner of said lot thence east on the north line of said lot fifty-six (56) feet thence south parallel with the west line of said lot to the south line thereof thence west on the south line of said iot to the place of beginning.

On falling to realize the full amount of judgment, Interest and costs, to-wit Five thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty-three cents (16,288,45), 1 will, at the same time and place, offer the fee simple of 6ald real estate.

Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. To be sold as the property oi Elmer J. Binford, in cause wherein The Greenfield Building and Loan Association is plaintiff and E1mer J. Binford, Grace K.

the Olerk of the Han

cock Circuit Court, I will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, on

Saturday, April 19, 1913,

Binford and The Se

curity Trust Company are defendents, on foreclosure of mortgage. Terms of sale, cash In hand.

MACK WARRUM.

-/v, Sherifl of Hancock County, Ind. John B. Hinohman,

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