Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 31 July 1913 — Page 4

GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

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

Entered at the Postoffiee in Greenfield, Indiana, as second-class mail matter.

OBITUARIES $1.00 CARDS THANKS i- .25

If the Democratic Congress can retain the high prices of farm products as they leave the farm in the form of hogs, cattle, sheep, chickens, wheat and corn, and at the same time reduce the price of bacon, lard, cured hams, beefsteak, lamb chops and fried chickens, it will indeed ber entitled to the control of the country, so long as it retains such power and wisdom.

An investigation disclosed the fact that most of the farmers who are growing alfalfa have 'inoculated their ground. Most of them say that they do not know whether it does any good or not, but that it cost so little to do it, they could not afford to take any chances. Those who understand the merits, of inoculation say that there can be no doubt of its benefit, and that they would not think of sowing alfalfa without inoculation.

The disposition to violate the law is so strong in some young rowdies that nothing but conviction and punishment will teach them. The windows in school houses and unoccupied tenant houses are being broken out with stones thrown by boys. The shooting through a rural mail box is another example. If the laws were enforced, and a. few convictions secured, it would have a good effect.

There is not so much publicity Washington as there was when the Congress convened. There are some public affairs which in certain unsettled conditions, it is well that the public does not know all that is involved and going on. It is true that there can be too much "star" chamber work Congress. It .is well that the people be kept pretty well acquainted with what is going on Congress, but to insist that the public be taken into, confidence in all things at all times, Is impracticable, and no party will do it. It sounds good newspapers but does not work all the time with any party.

Governor Ralston is perfect sympathy with efforts throughout the state to suppress vice, but he expects the people to first appeal to local officers to do their duty. He cites impeachment law as a club for good citizens to wield on public officers who do not do their duty. It is probable that the Governor will do his whole duty in regard to recreant local officials who fail to do their duty. At least his reference to the impeachment law certainly had some significance. Terre Haute's Good Citizens' League is having some trouble getting officers to do their duty. So the Governor has written them a letter which is sympathy with the suppression of all forms of vice.

The Kero Gas Burner. Guy Reeves, of Indianapolis, who is spending a few days this city in the interest of the Kero Gas Burner Company, is well known this county where he was born and grew to manhood. He is deeply interested this new invention, which he and all the parties connected therewith feel is the greatest fuel producer ever made. They are confident that it will revolutionize the full question and produce a fuel -iO per cent, cheaper than any other known fuel, and at the same time eliminate many objectionable features. Though the burner makes a gas, it is so made, they say, that there is no danger of •i explosion. They make a gas so pure and the combustion is so perfeet that there is absolutely no smoke, no soot and no odoi\ They (demonstrate that vessels of white .enamel are not colored the least bj .^cooking in contact with the fire •«|,/Such vessels, after use on the fire 'can be wiped by a delicate hanakerchief and still not soil the hand v. kerchief. The heat is simply in/intense. The cost of fuel is suc'i t.'Hhat the" oven of a range or co -stove can be heated to the baking fv^point and retained at that point it v^one cent per hour. .ixf Mr. Reeves' business in Gren?^eld is to sell the stock of the co n^pany which is to manufacture he burners. He is sure that the st ck „will be a great money-maker, and that those who buy it will find it thi best investment they ever ,made.

Charles Troy and sons, Noble and Robert, of Milner's Corner, were in this city Wednesday attending the funeral .of H. B. Wilson.^*

HOW TO LIVE

WORRY LESS and WORK MORE RIDE LESS and WALK MORE FROWN LESS and LAUGH MORE

"Sympathy Saturday"

The following communication has been received from Indianapolis in regard to Sympathy Saturday:

Word has been received from the Sympathy Saturday movement head quarters at Indianapolis of the organization of Greenfield, Hancock county, for the Sympathy Saturday work there.

As was the case in the Hamilton county towns organized, the very best people in Greenfield are interested in the success of the great day there. George Cooper, of the Citizens Bank at Greenfield, a man of wide business experience and of much influence there, will be manager and he has already interested Mrs. Hiram Eshelman as his chief assistant. Mrs. Eshelman teaches a class in the Christian church Sunday school and in addition to the young ladies in her own class, will probably call upon* others from the other churches to take part in the movement,.

It is the plan of the management of Sympathy Saturday to organize several towns each county adjoining Marion county, for the benefits of the Summer Mission, to which the funds raised in the great Sympathy Saturday collection will be devoted, are not confined to the sick children of Indianapolis. Moreover the management explains, the people of the adjoining territory have long been interested in the success of the mission and it is the opinion of the management that hundreds of people in the adjoining territory will be glad to contribute when the great house-to-house collection is taken.

Last year Indianapolis and the towns Marion county raised more than $8,000 a single day, and the management hopes to do that well this year, for the Mission this summer has been busier than ever, the number of persons taking advantage of the treatment increasing annually.

Both at Greenfield and in the Hamilton county towns that have been organized, the editors of the local papers have gotten behind the movement heartily. Newton R. Spencer, of the Greenfield Daily Reporter, and John Mitchell, of the Hancock Democrat, pledged their support to the great movement, as did the Hamilton county editors visited. The friend of the Mission who went to Greenfield to make the arrangements said that, as usual, all that was necessary to obtain the support of the best people in town was merely a thorough explanation of the work and aims of the Summer Mission, which is recognized as one of the finest institutions of its kind the country.

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Mrs. Lysinger has moved into the home of Mrs. W. T. Webb.

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EAT LESS and OHEW MORE PREACH LESS and PRACTICE MORE KICK LESS and BOOST MORE

SPEND LESS and SAVE MORE

and deposit your money at the CAPITAL STATE BANK V—DIRECTORSJOB. L. Binford Wm. R. Johnson Paul F. Binford

C. M. Ctirry N. C. Binford

AGRICULTURE AND DOMES! SCIENCE

Must Be Taught in All Schools of County Next Term Two Recitations Per Week

County Superintendent George J. Richman is in receipt of a letter of information on vocational education from the department of public instruction that should prove of interest to his teaching force in the district and high schools of the county. It discusses the law enacted by the last Legislature for education along industrial, agricultural and domestic science lines, and gives information regarding what will be expected of the schools during the coming term.

The law is considered from two standpoints in the letter. First, it is quoted that "Elementary agriculture shall be taught in the grades in all town and township schools, elementary industrial work shall be taught in all the grades in all city and town schools, and elementary domestic science shall be taught in the grades in all city, town and township schools. The state board of education shall outline a course of study for each of such grades as they may determine which shall be followed as a minimum requirement. The board shall also outline a course of study in agriculture, domestic science and industrial work, which they may require city, town, and township schools to offer as regular courses." The law further states that "school cities, towns and townships are authorized to maintain and carry on instruction in these vocational subjects as a part of the regular course of instruction."

This provision of the law goes into effect September 1, 1913, and means that this work must be begun when the next term of school opens. It is because of this that Mr. Richman is anxious to attract the attention of his teachers to the situation. A bulletin containing a tentative course of study is now. being prepared to indicate the work to be done in the regular schools in these lines, and it may be ready in time for distribution at the county institute.

A committee of the state board has reached a decision regarding the work that shall be attempted this fall. It has decided that all country and town schools must devote at least two recitation periods per week to elementary agriculture and domestic science, but the work in these subjects is to be limited to the seventh and eighth grades. It is expected that much more than this will be done in the grades in the city and town schools, but they must at least do that much.

City, town and township high schools must offer at least one year's work either in agriculture and domestic science, or in manual training and domestic science.

Second, the law provides for the extension and enlargement of our present system of public schools so* that they may provide education, "the controlling purpose of which shall be to fit for profitable employment." Provision is made the law for taxation to bring about the desired results, but this provision of the law does not go into effect until one year from the first of next September, and the county schools are not so much concerned with that feature at the present time, inasmuch as there can be no state aid until the law becomes effective. Consequently the state board expects to devote the greater part of the year to a study of the vocational needs of the state, and to a study of the other states and nations in dealing with the problem of vocational education so it may devise a suitable school machinery for carrying on the work in Indiana, and as soon as possible the board will issue a special bulletin along this,-line. It advises against school communities attempting to organize a special vocational department or school until some of the problems have been worked out by the board. Mi.'—•

The Eden band furnished music at the McKenzie park today.

Real Estate Transfers

Frank V. Hibben et al. to Milo Gibbs et al., lot in Greenfield, $500. Alice Geary to Max Shireman, lot in Shirley, $1.6o.

Inez May Harrington et al. to Florence Belle Millikan, lot in Greenfield, $1,200.

John M. Hall et al. to Carey W. Kimble, lot in Philadelphia cemetery, $25.

Edward E. Sheaffer et al. to Alta Wilson, lot in New Palestine, and 20 acres, $1,500.

Jesse C. Mack et al. to Margaret A. Wingfield, lot in city, $3,500. Claude B. Lacy et al. to Leanna B. Furgason, lot in Greenfield, $1.

Mack Warrum, sheriff, to Central Trust & Saving Co., lot in Shirley, $909.58.

Francis M. Sanford et al. to Isaac M. Sanford, lot in Philadelphia cemetery, $30.

Roy Crider et al. to Iva Ethel Richey, two lots in city, $50. Madison Mingle to Oscar Mingle, 3 acres, $1,600.

William E. Crane to John R. Crane, two lots in Greenfield, $1.00. Charles Stutsman et al. to Jamfes M. Elliott, 60 acres, $1.00.

Pemberton Stutsman to James M. Elliott, 60 acres, $1.00. Mary Shepherd et al. to James M. Elliott, 60 acres, $1.00.

FAMILY

REUNIONS

The William B. Martin family reunion at Craft's Grove, the first Sunday in August.

The Bussell family reunion. Saturday, August 16, 1913, at Brookside Park, Indianapolis. Samuel Bussell, president, Greenfield, Ind., Route 7 Susan Bussell, secretary, Rushville, lnd.

Crider family reunion, Wed., August 20th. White's Grove, half mile south of Trees Shop, on T. H. I. & E. Andrew W. Crider, president A. E. Woods, secretary, Greenfield, Ind.

Jessup family, at Craft's Grove, half mile east of Charlottesville, on T. H. I. & E. Traction line, getting off at substation, Wednesday, August 20, 1912. Mrs. Jonathan Jessup, president, and Harry B. Barnard, secretary, Greenfield.

The Addison family will hold their reunion in Frank Craft's grove, east of Charlottesville, on the last Wednesday in August, 1913. Mrs. Wright Cross, secretary.

The Fort family will hold their twenty-first annual reunion in the Brookside Park, Indianapolis, August 9, 1913. All members of the family are urged to be present.

The annual reunion of the Marsh family will be held in Paxton's Grove, at Willow Branch, Sunday, August 17, 1913. Robert I. Marsh, secretary.

Greenfield's Coolest Place. It would not be advisable to say anything more about' the very hot weather with the people in their present frame of mind, but a cool subject should not offend. The coolest place in Greenfield has been sought by many and found by a few. It is not the court house, as has oft been reported, but is near that place, being the tunnel leading from the jail to the court house basement. Roy Crider, who is putting the new boilers at the heating plant, says the tunnel is undoubtedly the coolest place in the city, as a five minutes' stay in there would give a man a chill.

CAN YOU DOUBT IT?

When the Proof Can Be So Easily Investigated.

When so many grateful citizens of this locality testify to benefit derived from Doan's Kidney Pills, can you doubt the evidence? The proof is not far away—it is almost at your door. Read what a resident of Indianapolis says about Doan's Kidney Pills. Can you demand more convincing testimony?

Perry Lynn, 512 S. Pennsylvania Sjt., Indianapolis, Ind., says: 'Kidney complaint caused me much suffering for several weeks. Hearing Doan's Kidney Pills highly recommended, I procured a box and in a short time after using them, the aches and pains left. I am pleased to give Doan's Kidney Pills my hearty endorsement." ..

The above is not an isolated case. Mr. Lynn is only one of many in this vicinity who have gratefully endorsed Doan's. If your back aches—if your kidneys bother you, don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—ask distinctly for Doan's Kidney Pills, the same that Mr. Lynn had. 50c at all stores. Foster-Mil-burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. 15

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Dr. H. E. Wright called on Indianapolis friends this evening.

Mrs. Frank Beeson," of Knightstown, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cooley today.

Rfiiss Wiimine Hammann. Soloist at Indiana Fair

A-'fV^WA

INDIANA FAIR IS BIB

Exposition Is Huge If Measured In Any Way, and It Belongs to People of State.

Of course it will be big—the Indiana state fair, to be held at Indianapolis beginning September 8. It always is, for from its beginning in 1851 the fair has been growing both in. magnitude and quality. Measure it by the 214 acres of ground it occupies, by the $66,044.50 it offers in premiums this year, in which exhibitors have over 5,000 chances to win measure it by some forty acres of machinery, by 8,000 fowls in the poultry show, by 2,500 plates of fruit in the horticultural show, by 400 sheep, 600 swine, 600 cattle, 700 horses—and the state fair is big!

It is not surprising that upward of 200,000 people from all over Indiana flow in at the exposition gates within five days every fall—the great run of these patrons being from the smaller towns and from the farms. So many thousand Hoosiers have been acquainted with the fair for so many years that there is no longer any question of its importance as a factor in the upbuilding of the farm resources of the Hoosier land, and there is unending evidence of its force as an educator and entertainer of the Indiana public. The visitors from the farm go to the fair both for information and inspiration which can be turned to account on home lands and in home flocks, for the state fair stands for improved herds, better soils and increased output with less labor, and it points the way to the farm men and women to these ends. The country men and women turn to the fair as they would to a school— for information. The visitor from the town finds the exposition a bubbling fountain of enjoyment. It is a fair covering five days, with each day's program as important as the others.

And the fair belongs to the people of Indiana. Through their patronage at the gates they have gradually built it up to what it is today, and their increasing patronage enables, it to become greater in magnitude and better in quality. It has risen to the level of the great state fairs of the United States both in character of displays and in number of patrons, and it gives glowing promise of going beyond its old records along both these lines next September.

The exposition should produce a still higher standard of exhibits, for some of the most noted authorities of America have joined in revising its premium list, in renovating the classifications, so that former classes which showed signs of weakness have been eliminated and those retained have been enriched by greater premiums.

Besides the money prizes offered, exhibitors are lured to the coming fair by many special prizes in silver cups, gold and silver medals and other trophies. For draft horses alone four silver cups, twelve gold medals and as many of silver are offered. The money prizes for horses amount to $38,870, of which $3,970 goes to draft classes, $5,830 to animals in the night horse shows, $1,900 to saddle horses, and the remainder to other classes, including $920 for ponies. The speed purses amount to $26,200.

In the cattle show, $12,265 is offered, $7,800 on beef* cattle, $3,500 for dairy classes.- The, prizes in other departments are Sheep, $3,387 swine, $3,785 poultry, $2,178 agricultural products, $1,399.50 horticultural, $2,838.50 arts and crafts, $1,573.50.

Because of the ever increasing importance of the Hoosier poultry interests, unusual preparations are under way for the poultry show at the Indiana state fair, which opens on September 8. The amount of prizes offered is $2,178, and, since every breed raised in Indiana is represented in the premium list a great exposition of blooded chickens will be assured. To enable the show to expand, the poultry house on the fair ground is being remodeled so that its capacity for coops will be increased about onethird, so that the coming show will have more poultry and visitors, than ever.—Adv. c«L

GREENFIELD MARKET These prioes are corrected daily from quotations by the Bolt Meat Market, Thomas Nye, the poultry dealer, New Milling Company and local grocers.

Cattle—

Steers .. [email protected] Stock Cattle [email protected] Heifers .. [email protected] Bulls [email protected] Fat Cows 3.50@6J25 Canners and Cutters [email protected] Cow$ .. .. $20@$50 Veal Calves [email protected] -HogsGood to Best Heavies.... [email protected] Medium and Mixed [email protected] Good to Choice Lights... [email protected] —Wheat— Old and New Wheat, per bu 80c —Corn— Yellow Corn, 68 lbs ..60c White Corn, 68 lbs 61c —Oats and RyeGood White Oats 34c Rye, per bushel 50e —Hay and StrawBaled timothy hay, ton $9 00 Baled mixed hay, ton 8.00 Baled clover hay, ton 8.00 Bulk timothy hay, ton 8.00 Bulk mixed hay, ton 6.00 Bulk clover hay, ton 6.00 Baled wheat straw, ton 2.00 Baled oats straw, ton 3.00 —Buying Price SeedsTimothy, per bushel [email protected] Clover, per bushel [email protected] Alsike, per bushel [email protected] —Selling Price SeedsLittle Red Clover 12.50 Alsike [email protected] Timothy seed 2.00@ 2.25 Kentucky Blue Grass.. 2.00 —Bacon and Lard— Bacon 14@15e Country Hams 15@16c Lard, per lb I3e —Butter and EggsButter, per lb 20@27e Eggs, per dozen 15c -PoultryChickens, per lb l2o Spring chickens, per lb i8c Turkeys, per lb 10@12c Ducks, per lb 09c

Geese, per lb. .. 7c —Wool— Wool, per lb 16@2W

Used Parcel Post.

In the current issue of "Farm and Fireside" appears a short article showing how local buyers of farm products sometimes operate under a "gentleman's agreement" and keep the prices of country produce down to a ridiculously low figure. Following is an extract from the article showing how a Texas worn-, an met this situation: "Not long, ago Mrs. J. F. Jobe, a North Texas farm woman, found herself face to face with such a local combination. Mrs. Jobe had a flock of fine fat hens ready for the market, but the local buyers drew long faces and declared that the market was 'overstocked'—and offered twenty cents apiece for the fowls. "Mrs. Jobe consulted her paper and found that hens were quoted at six dollars a dozen on the Dallas market, the nearest city. Should she ship? This seemed the logical thing to do, but Mrs. Jobe was not unacquainted with the ins and outs of shipping poultry, whereby the commission house often stood 'in' for a coop of fine chickens while the farmer was 'out' the value of the poultry with absolutely no chance of collecting the money should the commission firm be a dishonest one. "But she finally decided to ship, not to a commission house, however, but direct to the consumer by means of the newly inaugurated parcel-post service. "To secure customers she inserted a small advertisement in the classified columns of a Dallas daily paper, and immediately orders began to come in in satisfying numbers. "After paying the postage she had left more than twice as much as the local buyers offered. Then, too the consumer made a substantial saving in price and secured a very marked improvement in quality also, for Mrs. Jobe's farm fed, farm-slaughtered poultry proved to be far better than the usual run of market." (Advertisement)

ADVERTISED LETTERS

Following is a list of letters remaining uncalled for in the Postoffice at Greenfield, Ind., July 31st:

Mrs. Alice Clark. Mr. Samuel Enix. Mrs. Harold Flower. Mr. A. B. Griffith. Mr. Earl McGhee. Mr. John Murphin. Mr. and Mrs. Chester G. Payne. Persons calling for the above will pleas, 3 say they were advertised.

WILLARD S. PUGH, Postmaster.

Houston Cranfill and wife, of near the north comity line, attended the funeral of Henry B. Wilson here today.