Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 21 August 1913 — Page 2

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PURDUE AUTHORITY ON WIRE GRASS

Letter From Greenfield Citizen Brings Interesting Reply—FoxTail is Becoming a Pest.

A letter was written by one of our citizens a few days ago to the Agricultural Experiment Station at Lafayette, in regard to the different weeds and grasses that seem to be taking so many blue-grass lawns. The reply which was received is yery interesting and full of good information. It is as follows:

Your letter of August 6th, witty specimens of grass enclosed,, addressed to Prof. C. G. Woodbury, has been referred to this department. The specimens are those of "Foxtail Grass" and "Yard Grass," also known as "Wire-Grass." Both are annuals and reproduce only from seed. Foxtail grass is a frequent intruder upon lawns, while yard-grass is found more commonly in the dooryards, especially in spots where water is poured out frequently. Just as many other lawn weeds, these two grasses may be checked or completely eradicated by taking good care of the lawn and encouraging the growth of desirable grasses. The latter may be accomplished by improving the soil. In the first place, the soil should be sweet and well supplied with lime, as blue grass will not thrive on soil containing only a small amount of lime, or lacking it entirely. About ten pounds of slaked lime should be applied to each 100 square feet of lawn, if there is any reason to believe that the soil is in need of it.

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Some lawns become poor in plant food, and should be enriched by the application of some form of fertilizer. Well rotted manure is perhaps the best, and gives quick results. Fresh manure is not recommended, as it may contain seed of many weeds, especially that of foxtail. Unleached wood ashes and bone meal are also excellent fertilizers. They may be mixed in equal proportions and applied at the rate of one pound of the mixture to each twenty to forty square feet of lawn space. Nitrate of soda used at the rate of about pound to each 100 square feet, acts as a quick fertilizer and enables the grass to make rapid growth. The lime and fertilizers are applied as a top dressing, and the lawn is immediately given a god sprinkling, to prevent any caustic action.

If the growth of the desirable grasses is sparse, the lawn, in addition to the application of lime and fertilizers, should be re-seeded. The following mixture is recom-1 mended for quick results: Kentucky blue grass, ten ounces perennial rye grass, eight ounces red lop, seven ounces meadow fescue, six ounces, and timothy, two ounces —September is the best month for fall sowing in this state. Frequent mowing is very important. This not only enables the grass to grow better, but keeps down the various kinds of weeds which otherwise would flourish at the expense of the grass.

Certain kinds of weeds which are difficult to check, even by frequent mowing, such as burdock, yellow-

dock and dandelion, may be eradicated by the following treatment: Cut the weed off a couple of inches or so below the surface, using a sharp spudding knife, and put several drops of crude carbolic acid on the root, which kills it. Spudding alone will usually kill dandelions, if done carefully, but the above treatment insures good results. The common plantain may be exterminated by simply putting a few drops of the acid in the cro^m of the plant. Crude carbolic acid may be obtained in drug stores at about 40 cents a gallon. It may be applied with an ordinary oil can. It is absolutely safe to handle, but care should be taken not to drop it on clothing, as it produces an unsightly spot.

The essential things then to be practiced in maintaining a good lawn are the keeping of the soil sweet and rich with lime, manure and various commercial fertilizers and frequent mowing. Sprinkling, especially in time of drouth, should not, of course, be neglected, and reseeding should be resorted to when the growth of grasses becomes thin. With all or most conditions favorable, the grasses will thrive and readily keep out the weeds, which are apt to come up in the lawn. F. J. PIPAL.

f'-a Mrs. Joe A^lt and daughter, of Columbus, who have been guests of Wm. Lanigan and family, have returned home.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gambrel, north of town, a fine girl baby. Dr. Griffin reports all doing well.

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A FEW LEAVES FROM THE v^^MARY OF A STOMACH

(of a young lady)

10 a. m. Oh, dear! another warm day. Wonder if I'll be abused as I was yesterday? If I»am, I am going to strike. Just disposed of a half-chewed breakfast. We ran for the train, which meant that I was so jiggled about and so tired that it took me twice as long to do my work. Hope she gives me an hour or two of complete rest before anything more comes my way. 10:30 a. m. Two glasses of ice water have just arrived. It will take all the energy I can pump up in the next hour tCwarm me up to normal again. 10:50 a. m. Half-chewed breakfast did. not satisfy her and she bought some peanuts and started eating them. 12 m. Peanuts nave dribbled along steadily ever since last entry. Think she has finished them, though. 12:30 p. m. Decided she wasn't very hungry, and instead of a good solid dinner, sent me down a cold egg-nog, heavy with chocolate, and it could have been managed all right if it hadn't been so cold, but that makes it terribly hard to deal with. 1:10 p. m. More ice water. 1:40 p. m. Was mistaken about the peanuts. She found another handful in the bottom of the bag, and now I have them to attend to. 2:05 p. m. More ice water. 3:10 p. m. She has been lifting some heavy books, and, as usual, used my muscles, instead of her arm muscles, as she should have done. Tired me more than digesting a six course dinner. 3:20 p. m. Some one has brought us a box of caramels, and she has started on them. 4:30. Have received something like a half-pound of caramels since last entry. She just said: "Oh, dear, I don't feel a bit well. I know the milk in that egg-nog must have been sour." 6:30. We played a set of tennis before dinner, and here I am all tired out and a dinner to handle. 6:50. We are invited out to have a soda before going home. Had a lemon phosphate and then ran for the train. 7:30. Fried potatoes, cucumbers, veal and canned blueberries. What do you know about that? 7:45. We are going down for a chocolate walnut college ice, rich with cream. 8:20. Got home and found some one had made some lemonade. She drank two glasses. That on top of the college ice, settles it. I strike. 8:30. Have sent back the college ice and lemonade. 8:40. Returned the blueberries. 8:50. And the veal. 9:10. She has sent for the doctor. Says that college ice must have had something the matter with it. Her mother says it is probably a weak stomach, inherited from her father. 9:30. Doctor says it is just a little upset, due to the weather. Goodnight.

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To Put in Pasteurizer and Sterilizer Richard Hagans has notified a representative of this paper that he is in communication with parties, and has a proposition on a pasteurizing and sterilizing plant for his dairy farm. While he has not consummated the deal, he thinks he will be able to do so within a very few days. He went to Indianapolis today on business connected with the purchase of the machinery.

This, he says, will enable him to produce as good a quality of milk from every standpoint as can be produced anywhere. Mr. Hagans says that he has always been in favor of the pure food laws, and has aimed to keep up with all progressive methods of handling milk. He has advocated, he says, the establishing of a standard by the health officers and city council, and he will welcome an ordinance which compels milk to be absolutely, sanitary before sold in the city.

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RURAL ROUTE MEN 60 TO GREENIME

Annual Meeting of the Country Carriers Will Be Held August 30th to September 1st.

The eleventh annual meeting of the rural route carriers of Indiana will be held in Greencastle August 30th and 31st and September 1st. Those on the program for speeches include former State Senator F. C. Tilden, Ralph W. Moss, representative from the Fifth district, and members of the association. About 200 rural route carriers are expected to attend.

The meeting Saturday night will be for the purpose of organization and appointment of committees. Sunday morning there will be welcoming services in all the churches and at noon the Nine O'clock Tea Club will tender a banquet.

Sunday afternoon there will be welcoming addresses by Mayor J. R. Miller and Postmaster W. B. Vestal. The response will be by J. R. Babcock. There will be an address by Senator Tilden, music, readings and "experiences" by several carriers. This meeting will be held in the court room at the court house. On Sunday evening the delegates will attend the Locust street church in a body.

Monday morning there will be regular business meetings and addresses by Representative Moss and E. A. Buh, of Reynolds, Ind. The report of the good roads committee on its work accomplished during the year will also be made.

In the afternoon there will be reports of officers and of delegates to the national convention, the selection of the next meeting place, and the installation of new officers. Some of the carriers from the local office will attend if possible.

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Mr. and Mrs. David L. Wickard contemplate a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Konold at Winona about September 1st. Mr. Konold is dean of the Winona school which has had a very large attendance this year. He was for several years a city letter carrier in the business section of Greenfield. He is & graduate of the Central Indiana Normal College, and was a successful teacher before graduating from college. He is succeeding nicely with his work at Winona. Mrs. Konold is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wickard.

Prof. Kendall, of the city high school, has a letter from Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Schopmeyer announcing the arrival of a daughter, Margaret Frances, pounds, August 15th. Prof. Schopmeyer was instructor in mathematics fn the Greenfield High School in the school year 1911-12. He and Mrs. Schopmeyer are well known to many Greenfield people who are pleased to hear of their good fortune.

Mr. and Mrs. K. Millsap, who have been guests of Ed Bennett and wife, are visiting at Terre Haute and other cities in that vicinity. They will soon go to Colorado for an extended visit.

Mrs. Clarence Roberts and daughter, Dorothy, of Indianapolis, spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. Charles Hilt. Her daughter, Ruby, who visited here the latter part of the week accompanied her mother home.

Paul Ogg is able to be out after several weeks' sickness.

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.- GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21,1913

PLAN TO SPEND $600,000,000

Pennsylvania Railroad Company Announces That it Will Abolish 13,000 Grade Crossings.

While the Pennsylvania Railroad has been for many years engaged in the systematic elimination of grade crossings wherever it found an opportunity. It has just been announced from the general headquarters of the company that it is now working on a plan to remo've every grade crossing that touches its tracks.

Engineers in the employ of the company have for many months been working at various points along the system and have not completed an exhaustive survey of the improvements necessary to carry out the plans of elimination. In their report they state that the prodigious sum of $600,000,000 will be needed for the work.

By actual count there are 13,000 grade crossings on 11,000 miles of track, and every one of these will have to be abolished. The work on each will cost about $50,000. The official order stipulates that it will probably be thirty years before the entire work is completed, but that it will start at once and be "carried on as rapidly as funds and labor permit. Statisticians of the company have computed that in less than fifty years, the company will have saved the amount of the improvements in damage claims:

Suffered Eczema Fifty Years— Now Well

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Mrs. D. L. Kenney writes:—"I cannot sufficiently express my thanks to you for your Dr. Hobson's Eczema Ointment. It has cured my tetter which has troubled me for fifty years." Zike & Henricks, or by mail, 50c. Pfeifer Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo., Philadelphia, Pa. (Advertisement}

Colclazier Sale.

Hiram Colclazier, of Brandywine township, was in Greenfield Saturday afternoon and called at The Reporter office. In talking of the public sale of personal property recently made by him, he said that everything sold good. He was pleased with his auctioneer, Col. Burnside, and his clerk, J. E. Sample. When the last article on the list was knocked off, Mr. Sample, the clerk, was able to announce the total amount of the sale. The horses sold from $85 to $297 cows from $47 to $115 spring calves, from $13 to $16. The hogs brought extra high prices, and were eagerly sought by buyers. One sow and 8 pigs sold for $58 another sow and 7 pigs for $48 some shoats, averaging 75 to 90 pounds, brought $14.40 per head—that is, $14.40 was the highest price bid for them. The average price for such shoats was about $10. Shoats averaging from 25 pounds up, sold for $5.80. The total of the sale was $2,365.

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WILLIAM SMART'S HOUSE ON FIRE SATURDAY NIGHT

The residence of William H. Smart, of West Seventh street, caught fire Saturday night, causing a loss of about $60. It was insured with Wood Bros. The -fire department was not called. The family extinguished the fire, but not until much damage was done.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fair and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lee visited the fishing party of Greenfield boys on Driftwood creek below Edinburg, Sunday. The visitors were treated to a fine fish dinner. The boys in the party are Dr. Raymond Fair, Don Thomas, Charles Davis, Paul Beckner and Ward Rhue.

Mrs. Marion Philpott, of Charlottesville, attended the Chautau qua Monday and heard the Innes Band. ,.

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ready to meet adversity, while the latter will be dependent on his friends.. Which are- you? Take our advice and start saving now. .We solicit your account, large or small, and give every attention consistent with good banking principles.

Mrs. Elizabeth Howard announces the engagement of her daughter, Virginia Ruth, to Hugh Miller Sintson, of Philadelphia, Pa. The wedding will take place in October.

The Pauley reunion was held at Craft's grove Sunday. Mrs. Amanda Carson and daughter, Nell, Ora and Bert Pauley were in attendance from here.

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W. P. JOHNSON, Sole Agent, Greenfield, Indiana.

I'LL BACK YOU FOR A. FARM

Mrs. Mary M. Harrold attended the home-coming services at Western grove Sunday. Mrs. Harrold was on the program.

Miss Hazel Amick has returned to her work at Chauncey Duncan's office, after a two weeks' vacation-

Amos Parker, of Indianapolis, was at Greenfield Saturday.

(Private Car Excursion, Tuesday, September 2)

IF YOU WILL COME on my excursion, I will aid you in every possible way to investigate my lands and my proposition. The more you know of it the better you will like it. This colonizing of the Swigart Tract has become such a big movement, and there is so much to it, that it is impossible to give anything like a clear conception of it here. YOUR INTERESTS and mine do not end with your purchase. When we join hands I and my large and hustling land organization, and more than a thousand men who have already bought, are behind the plan of settling and developing this Michigan district so near Chicago. The principal obstacle we have to combat is skepticism on account of the low price of the land. Because of the high prices of most things nowadays people make the mistake of judging by price rather than by worth. However, every year we sell more land because the advance is backed up by substantial progress. Every settler who goes on his land makes the land adjoining his that much more valuable. Therefore, the first step for you to take is to go and see the land, and especially now, while you can see the growing crops. Pull yourself out of the rut for a few days and come with us on the short trip. JUST NOW we can show you crops of alfalfa, vetch, rye, clover, wheat, beans, cow-peas, soy-beans, timothy, potatoes, all vegetables equal to and in many cases better than the average on $175 lands in the neighboring states. Our lands are selling for $10 to $35 per acre and most of them for $17 per acre, with 50,000 acres to select from. I am selling on easy terms—7 years' time, $10 to $50 down on 40 acres. I make these easy terms because of my confidence in the lands. They will pay back their cost to the buyer quicker than any other lands within twice the distance from the big markets of Chicago, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids and Detroit. It is not like going into debt for something you use up or that depreciates on your hands. It is an investment of your savings that constantly grows in value. DO YOU NEED to bolster up your confidence in l.and values? Do you know of any good farm land that is not advancing in value? Every

Full particulars can be had by addressing George W. Swigart, the owner, R1250 First National Bank Building, Chicago, 111., or his agent,

COL. J. E. FROST, The Auctioneer

638 NORTH STATE STREET GREENFIELD, INDIANA

body has faith in the stability of farming. On the farm is the best place to be to reduce the cost of living, which is still soaring. A report has just been made by the Government's General Supply Committee on contracts let for supplies for the departments at Washington for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, and it shows that the cost of groceries and household supplies has increased 17 per cent., as compared with last year, lumber 10 per cent, and fuel and ice, 7 per cent. There are many possibilities for you in the ownership of a piece of land, to farm it yourself, to make it your home, to rear your family in health, for investment, to rent for an income, etc. In one instance a man who bought a piece of land in the Swigart Tract for investment, because of the rise in values within a five years' period was able to mortgage his land for three times what it cost him, thus giving him capital at an opportune moment for another investment.

A PURCHASE NOW will give you the benefit of all the pioneer work which has been done and you will be in time for a still greater rise in values. The wagon roads, railroads, markets, schools, churches, stores, telephones, are already here and the number of settlers going on their lands grows greater every season. Send for my literature and a large map. Post yourself, and then come and verify the facts to your own satisfaction.

MY NEXT PRIVATE CAR EXCURsion will be Tuesday, September 2d, by the P. M. R. R., leaving my oft ficesj at 11:30 a. m. Fare, $8.30 round trip to Wellston, rebated on purchase. You get back to Chicago at 7:20 a. m., Thursday or Friday of the same week. Automobiles and guides furnished free. You won't have as good a chance to see the crops for another year. Then the prices on the lands will be higher. Take part of your vacation and come now.

FARM LOANS at 5% and 6% WITHOUT COMMISSION. ALSO 6% CITY LOANS. We write FIRE, LIGHTNING, TORNADO, CYCLONE, WINDSTORM, HEALTH and ACCIDENT and LIABILITY INSURANCE, also all kinds of BONDS executed. FARM INSURANCE A SPECIALITY, written in the OLD AETNA, of HARTFORD, CONN., at lowest rates.

We prepare ABSTRACTS and have the only set of Abstract! Books in Hancock County.

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Greenfield, Indiana

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