Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 19 June 1913 — Page 5

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OTTERBEIN

Mrs. Joshua Roney and little daughter, Mary Elizabeth, spent Friday with Mrs. I. M. Sanford.

Mrs. T. E. Scotten was visiting Mrs. Louis Hawkins, of Amity, Saturday afternoon.

Clarence Martin, of Wabash, is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Parker.

Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Scotten spent Sunday with Mrs. Jesse Saville, at Mt. Vernon. .Miss Gladys and Goldie Scotten took dinner Sunday with Miss Eva Crump.

Mrs. Namon Roney spent Friday afternoon with Mrs. I. M. Sanford. Misses Ruby Sanford and Goldie Scotten returned Friday frqm Anderson, where they attended the Y. P. C. U. convention.

T. E. Scotten was at Greenfield Saturday afternoon. F. .Sanford has purchased an automobile.

The children's entertainment at this place Sunday night was largely attended.

Mrs. T. E. Scotten was visiting Mrs. Irene Saville Wednesday. Frank Shelby and son, Claude, were at Greenfield Saturday.

Millard Shelby and family entertained' relatives from Indianapolis Sunday.

Thomas Scotten and family were visiting Mrs.,E. E. Scotten Monday.

MAXWELL AND VICINITY The children's exercises at the M. E. church Sunday night were well attended.

Mrs. Emma Bussell, Mrs. Eakin and Mrs. Carl Coffin are on the sick list.

Earle, the young son of Marshall Grunden and wife, who live on the Cooper farm north of town, met with a serious accident when he was run over by a gravel wagon* breaking his leg above the knee.

Martin Welch has purchased a pony for his daughter, Lucy. Addison Barrett, living south of Greenfield, called on friends here Tuesday.

M. E. West, wife and daughters, Ruth and Marion, spent Thursday with John Robbins and wife on R. R. 10.

Mrs. Henry Shepler is quite sick. Merle Dobbins spent Saturday night and Sunday with Pauline Burk.

John Clark and wife, of Hammond, who spent a few days here, have returned home.

Mordecai Cooper and wife are rejoicing over the arrival of an 8pound baby girl. She will be known as Hildred Louise.

Mrs. Josephine Gordon is spending a few days with her son, Harvey Gordon and wife, at Greenfield.

John Mugg, the Big Four agent, is spending his vacation in Illinois. George Cooper, wife and little grandson, Paul Wright, were at Indianapolis Wednesday.

Mrs. Pet Dobbins and sons, of Indianapolis, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Sitton and wife Sunday.

Nettie Chappie has returned home after an extended visit with her daughter at Indianapolis.

Eva Talley, of Ingalls, spent the week-end with Anna Kimble, south of town.

Raymond Manchester, who has been assisting in the telegraph office here for some time, left last Thursday for Troy, Ohio.

WILEY'S CORNER

Mrs. George Jacobs, of Shelbyville, spent the week end with her mother at WesWand.

Miss Madge Ford returned to her home at Shelbyville Sunday, after a week's visit with her brother, Ernest Ford.

Mrs. Homer Jessup entertained company from Indianapolis last week.

Norris Moore and wife entertained his daughter and family, of California his aunt, Mrs. Mina Tremble, of Fountaintown, last week. 4k

Mrs. Rigdon is the guest of her son, Thad Rigdon, and wife. The Western Grove Sunday school is preparing an excellent program for the children Sunday night.

Miss Siliah Smith returned Sunday evening to her school.

CLEVELAND

Rain is badly needed here. The farmers say the dry weather is injuring the corn.

Mrs. Ida Hatfield was taken seriously ill Sunday evening. Her condition is some improved today.

Delbert Patterson is moving from D. A. Miller's property to the property of Otto Lacy, by whom he is employed.

Wilbur Wright, who recently fell breaking his leg, is rapidly improving and will soon be able to be out again by the aid of crutches,

M. M. Burris, of Shirley, was visiting. friends here Sunday. Walter Pauley is re-roofing his house and making other improvements. -Rev. Morris Wines and family

will leave Thursday for Chicago, where they will hold a meeting. Mrs. Ned Beck was shopping at Greenfield Tuesday.

Mabel Burris and little sister, Mary, of Shirley, were visiting with their grandmother, Mrs. Ella Richardson, and sister, Ada Burris, last Thursday.

Charles Williams and family visited friends at Wilkinson Sunday. Joe Kittery is at home from DePauw University.

Mrs. Malinda Miller is slowly improving in health. Rev. John T. Hatfield and wife are attending a ten days' camp meeting at Cincinnati, Ohio.

PHILADELPHIA.

Mrs. Holmes and children, of Indianapolis, visited Saturday with Mrs. Colestock and daughter.

Several from this place attended the children's exercises at Gem Sunday evening.

Mrs. Nancy Lamb is visiting near Fortville with her sister, Mrs. John Wiggins, who is very sick.

Miss Nelle Curry was at Greenfield Monday. Harry Apple and family, of Westland, visited relatives at this place one day last week.

James Wilson, of Curry's Chapel, spent Saturday with his son, Raymond Wilson and family.

Rush Bennett is moving from Rushville to this place. George Holden and sons, Merritt and Milo, of Charlottesville, visited relatives and friends here Sunday.

Rev. Hudelston is attending the Epworth League Convention at Middletown.

Lenna and Morris Harvey, of Indianapolis' spent Sunday with home folks.

Miss Hallie Smith js sick. Miss Elsie Reynolds, of Now Palestine, visited relatives here the latter part of last week.

Mrs. Hudleston is visiting friends at Ingalls. Miss Amelia Colstock was at Indianapolis Monday.

Arthur Burk and family and Marian and Frank Burk, of Indianapolis, spent Sunday with Mrs. Jennie Short.

Frank Eastes and family were guests of Greenfield friends Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bailey and little daughter left Monday for their home in Illinois, after a vi^it here with relatives.

John Declt is sick. Misses Vera Burton, of near Greenfield, and Agnes Elliott, of this place, were guests of Goldie Jackson Sunday.

James Curry and daughter, Elizabeth, were at Greenfield Mondfcy.

WILLOW

Mrs. Samuel DeCamp, of Eden, Oren Record and family spent Friday with Charles Record and family.

Mrs. Harry Pratt and children visited F. H. Sipe and family last Tuesday night.

Lon Welborn and wife attended church here Sunday. Charles Foust and wife visited J. W. Williams Sunday and attended the K. of P. services at Wilkinson in the afternoon.

Two horses belonging to M. C. Thomas have died recently. This was a great loss, as horses are now very scarce.

Born, to Isaac Blankenship and wife, a son. Mary White, of hear Greenfield, is visiting James Parker and family this week.

Mrs. Harry Pratt and children, of Anderson, are visiting relatives and friends here this week.

Miss Myrtle Fletcher went to New Castle Monday and her brother, Elmer, returned home with her.

Several from here attended the K. of P. memorial services at. Wilkinson Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. F. H. Sipe visited her son,

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MAXWELL

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M. E. West and family spent one day last week with John Robbins and family.

Albert Parfsh called on William Jackson and family Sunday. Mrs. Frank Durham and family, of Greenfield, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Elmer Hudson.

Wouldn't it be some satisfaction to know that you had as clean and select a stock right at your door as there is in the state—of

Pauline Burk spent Sunday with Myrl Dobbins. Hazel Jackson has returned home after spending last week with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark at Willow.

Mary Shepler is on the sick list. Rev. Duryee and wife spent Friday at Willow Branch, the guest of Homer Fort and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Pettigrew have moved to the Albert Webb property which they recently bought.

Miss Emma Bussell is on the sick list.

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A. E. Sipe, at Knightstown, Wednesday. Mrs. James McCormick, of Indianapolis, visited John and Mayme Patterson one day last week.

The Next State Fair Prizes. The State Fair this year will be held from September 8th to 12th, and there will be premiums and prizes awarded amounting to $66,044.50. The prizes to the speed department amount to $26,200.

Mrs. Earl Wolf is spending a few days with relatives at Morristown.

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Miss Adrian Pratt, of Dunreith, is visiting Mrs. F. H. Sipe this week. Mayme Patterson and Mrs. Samuel Grunden were calling in Wilkinson Monday afternoon.

Jasper Thomas, of Greenfield, visited John Braddock and wife Monday.

A. E. Sipe and wife and William Wilson and wife spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Sarah Huston, at Greenfield.

Elmer Sipe visited a friend at St. Louis the latter part of last week. Philip Vandine and wife visited relatives here Sunday.

ADVERTISED LETTERS

Following is a list of letters remaining uncalled for in the Postoffice at Greenfield, Ind., June 49th:

Mr. James McCarty. Edith M. Peeble. Mr. W. J. Powell.

ESPECIALLY SHIRTS

Miss Tracy-Peters: F. Rhodes. Persons calling for the above will please say they were advertised.

WILLARD13.1 PUGH, Postmaster.

Buy the Famous 'Miller's Creek Coal for next, winter, of the New Milling Go. Order now. 19d2-wi

Attending Commencement. Sam Onstott is attending the commencement exercises at the .Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Knightstown this week. Mr. Onstott was educated at this grand state institution and naturally takes a great interest and pride in his Alma Mater.. He has attended this "home-coming," as it is called, each year since leaving the Home. It was at this institution that* he learned his trade, that of printing, being a compositor on the Home Journal. At present he has a lucrative position with the Wm. Mitchell Printing Company as operator on one of the linotype machines.

Mrs. Lee C. Thayer, Jr., delightfully entertained about thirty-five guests at a lawn party Wednesday evening in honor of her sister, Miss Elsie Holmes, of Kokomo. The lawn was illuminated with Japanese lanterns. Refreshments of brick ice cream and cake were served. The out-of-town guest was Miss Marian Messick, of Indianapolis.

Miss Isabel Hughes attended the wedding of Charles E. Oliver and Miss Beulah Waters at Pittsboro Wednesday evening. Miss Hughes and Miss Waters were classmates in the College of Musical Arts at Indianapolis.

RURAL TRADERS OPPOSE NEW BACKSTAMPING RULE

Declare Backstamping Prevents the Withholding of Mail to Benefit Any Competitors.

From thousands of small cities, villages, hamlest and other centers of rural America has come a cry of protest against the action of Postmaster General Burleson, in abolishing the backstamping of letters. Formerly a postmaster was required, as soon as he opened a mail bag, to stamp the letters on the back with the date and hour of arrival, and then to sort them l'or delivery.

Protests have come from small offices where the mail is handled personally by the postmaster, or by one or two assistants. The complaint invariably has been to the effect that village postmasters are holding back mail of their business competitors or their political or personal enemies. Now that backstamping is not required the postmaster can put letters aside and delay their delivery as long as he sees fit.

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Poverty Social.

The Sunday school of the North U. B. church of Mohawk will give a Poverty Social Saturday evening, June 21st, at the Red Men's Hall. All are requested to dress in accordance with the nature of the social. Those who prefer to dress in silks or other swell apparel, will pay a fine of five cents. Everybody invited to come and enjoy the evening. Cream and cake will be served .at the usual price. 19d-w

Mr. and Mrs. Jpnas P. Walker and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Denney attended the wedding of Chalmer I. Schlosser and Miss Margaret Rutledge at Knightstown Wednesday evening.

Mrs. S. U. Hunt, of Broadway, has returned to her home after a weeks stay with Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Binford, of Westland.

Miss Lulu Cline, v/ho has been attending the Metropolitan School of Music at Indianapolis, finished her year in the school today. y!

Miss Florence Kirkpatrick has returned from a visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Akeman, in Shelby county.

Cljaude Lacy and family have movetf||) t,h|8 city from Richmond.

ALFALFA CAMPAIGN SPREADING RAPIDLY Auto Carrying instruction Directly to the Field

Growing cf Alfalfa Is Made Possible* on Every Farm in the Corn Belt

[By Douglas Malcolm, of the I Service Bureau.] Within the past week the first auto mobile alfalfa campaign the world has ever known was carried on ia Kent County, Michigan, by the recently organized Kent County Alfal« fa Growers' Association. The bis "Automobile Special," in direct charge of the Grand Rapids Association oS Commerce, was marked as the initial effort of the Agricultural Extension Department of the International Harvester Company of New Jersey to carry out their avowed purpose of establishing alfalfa on every farm in* the Corn Belt. Professor Perry G. Holden, the well-known Iowa corn1 expert, whose services were recently secured by that Company, and Federal Agent J. H. Skinner of the United States Department of Agriculture, were the chief missionaries of this wonderfully profitable but sadly

Prof. Perry G. Holden addressing the farmers of Kent County, Mich., from back steps of a farm house. neglected forage crop. A systematic canvas from farm to farm, grange to grange, and oftentimes from field to field was made in an effort to bring to the farmer in his own home the facts and figures which have been stored up in tbe pamphlets and archives of the agricultvltal schools and colleges.

Taking part in the campaign, either in an advisory capacity or as speakers, were the following members of the Agricultural Extension Department: C. M. Carroll, formerly with the Crop Improvement Committee W. R. Baugham, prominent rancher and alfalfa grower of Texas J. E. Waggoner, formerly of the Mississippi Agricultural College R. W. Lamson of Iowa J. E. Buck of Chicago C. W. Farr, assistant county superintendent of Cook County, Illinois the Hon. G. H. Alford of Georgia, and C. H. Allen, a retired banker of Ohio.

That the farmers were ready for the blessings which alfalfa strews over a neighborhood which gives it a neighborly welcome, was evidenced everywhere by the crowds that greeted the campaigners at every stop. At no time were any of the speakers without an encouraging audience, and on some occasions the party was obliged to divide, a part addressing the school children while others spoke to the farmers. The advent of the cortege into a community was made Alfalfa Day in the schools. In the towns the children paraded out' to meet the autos, singing special alfalfa songs and waving flags. It is{ estimated that between three andl four hundred farmers in that one] county alone pledged themselves td| make a start with alfalfa and do it} according to the rules laid down by' Federal Expert J. H. Skinner.

Kent County, in the census of 1910, was credited with raising only 73 acres of alfalfa, but all indications at the present time are that by 1815 there will be 10,000 acres flourishing with this legume. It was shown that' on the typical sand or clay loams easl of the Mississippi alfalfa could be* raised as easily and as surely as clover yielding three crops a season and that it was the greatest plant thel farm world has yet discovered fori extracting nitrogen from the air and storing It up in the soil, thus rejuvenating run down and over-crop-ped farms.

The Corn Belt farmer in alarm at his annually diminishing yields, is turning to alfalfa, as his one great hope, and the bugle call sounded In Kent County Is re-echoing In the enentire eastern states. As we go press, a similar campaign is going oi in Allegan County, Michigan the Toledo Commercial Club is about to* wage a powerful alfalfa propaganda! In the ten western counties of Ohio.' Feelers have been put out by the Connecticut agriculturists for turning the entire I Agricultural fixten•ion Department batteries oa th*tv state for a state-wide campaign to ln-j-/' troduee alfalfa on the seaboard. It*'/ possibilities seem to Be unlimited, and the prospaeta are that by the next1 census the leadership 1» alfalfa acreage and production iftay be wtsstei Irop the wtstetn statep aftd the -'1 •rown placed upon {he brew of the niddle west and eastern (krrtcr. i'