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Ghas. Caldwell and Chas. Baker, of Eden, were here Tuesday.

Wm. Jeffries, of Springport, Ind., is here the guest of relatives and friends.

Wilbur Harvey is remodeling his home on South street, which he recently purchased.

Adelia Custer, of Indianapolis, is in this city the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jessie Gipe.

Miss JDoris Cox, of Kniglitstown, is the guest of friends and relatives in this city.

Mrs. Charles Gray, of Charlottesville, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Walker.

J. 0. Addison, of Indianapolis, was in Greenfield Tuesday afternoon. He was formerly a merchant at Knightstown.

Claude Keller, of Bradford, Ohio, will come tomorrow to be the guest of relatives here. Mrs. Keller has been here for the past few days.

Mrs. Riley Cook and son, Leonard, of Indianapolis, are here the guests of friends.

Edith Shumway, of New Castle, is spending the winter with her grandmother, Mrs. Jesse Millikan.

Thomas Griffith, wife and daughter, of Charleston, West Va., are the guests of Mr and Mrs. Henry Brown Mr. Griffith is a brother of Mrs. Brown.

John Crossley and wife were at Indianapolis Sunday to see their grandson, John Brakeman, son of Charles Brakeman and wife who had his leg broken in two places a week ago. The boy is getting along nicely.

Eden M. E. Sunday Seliool. Banner class for attendance and collection last Sunday was No. 5, taught by Thomas L. Huey. Total attendance, 71 total collection $1.11. A home-coming will be held at this place in the near future.

Perry Webb was at Indianapolis Tuesday night to see his brother, Herbert Webb, wife, son and nephew, who are taking the pasteur treatment there. They were bitten by a mad dog at Connersville, their home, recently. They are getting along nicely.

"X Have Traded Properties Benton L. Barrett and Elmer E. Gant have traded residence properties. They will make the ex-

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TIFUL FEATURES

The Carnival was in full swing Tuesday night, and attracted quite a crowd, many people being in from the country.

There are some unusual and interesting features, one of which is the electrical fountain, which is entertaining to a high degree. This was opened Tuesday night for the first time here, and many people who have witnessed this splendid spectacle before were waiting to see it again.

Another feature that attracted many people was the ossified man, Frank Warden. This is truly a wonder and a mystery to medical science. This man, who is now 47 years old, has for two-score years been lying on a low swing, unable to move his body in the least, gradually turning to stone, his trunk just a shell around the vital organs. He can move his hands and lips, to talk, but cannot open his mouth enough to insert a pencil.

Physicians have examined him, and wondered, and many prominent citizens have been in to see him and been entertained by his pleasant and interesting talk, and the history of his affliction. 0nly two other cases are of record in the United States, and both persons are dead. The man in this city now was a farmer in Iowa until he was 25 years old. The peculiar affliction came on him gradually, and it was several years after it really started before he was certain something serious was the matter. It could not be stopped, but the nerves have been gradually dying and the muscles hardening into stone for two-score years until now his body is a solid case, immovable by any effort of his own and with but little feeling. Notwithstanding his condition, and the fact that he has been lying on a narrow strip or swing for years, he says he never becomes tired and does not know what it is to have an ache or pain. Two or three strong men pulling or twisting at'the same time, are unable to make the hardened body give, in the least. Notwithstanding this affliction that is gradually growing worse, Frank, as everyone calls him after meeting him once, is cheerful and is an entertainer.

Other of the attractions are interesting and some are instructive and all seem to be receiving considerable patronage.

Martha J» Collins and son, William, of Buck Creek township, were in Greenfield Wednesday.

Sheriff Mack Warrum, who was injured two weeks ago, is able to be at his office again.

Dr. John W. Cook, of Pendleton, and Will T. Durbin, of Anderson, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cook.

Mrs. S. D. Murker, of Bloomington, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ed Rickard.

Mrs. I. H. Barnes and children have returned from a visit with relatives at Shelbyville.

Miss Anna Armacost, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was the guest of Miss Kate-Barr Tuesday night.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Miller and son, James Edwin, are the guests of Mrs. Miller's mother, Mrs. Geo. Knight this week.

Miss Anna Armacost, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has accepted a position at Barr & Cochran's millinery store.

Mrs. Pearl Campbell, of Indianapolis, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barr, this week.

James Moran, Ed Morford and Marshall McBane attended th§ National Convention of Horse-Shoers, at Indianapolis Monday evening.

Charles Foster, west of the city, who was sick more than two months with typhoid fever, is recovering rapidly now, and was able to come to town Tuesday afternoon for the first time. His friends are glad to see him out again.

George Caldwell, of Indianapolis, was calling on friends here Tuesday. Mr. Caldwell formerly lived here and was pressman at this office. He is now in the composing room of the Indianapolis News office.

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About five hundred people were in attendance at the two meetings held in the Bradley M. E. church Thursday afternoon and night,, for the purpose of arousing intelligent interest in foreign missions. "LiveWire" Jackson the missionary from South America, who was to have spoken, for some unknown reason failed to appear. In his place, Rev. Cottingham, who recently returned from work in the Philippines, on account of the illness of his wife, addressed both meetings with very interesting talks. The afternoon address was delivered to more than a hundred people.

In the evening, after the congregation had joined in the singing "All Hail the Power" and Rev. J. S. Clawson had led in prayer, the choir of the Methodist churph rendered the anthem "They That Sow in Tears" from "The Holy City," in their usual pleasing manner. After Miss l£elle Reed sang the sacred solo, "Just for Today," the Scripture lesson was read by Rev. Huddleson taken from the familiar missionary Psalm, the Second Psalm.

Following a vocal solo by Prof. Ellis, of the high school, entitled "Abide with Me," Prof. J. W. Kendall, who presided over the meeting, announced Rev. Smith, who spoke about the offering, which was then taken. It amounted to $13.55.

Two readings were given by Mas-

ter Glen Bolt and little Miss Kath-:

leen Winslow, following which the

Indian, Africa and America. After

showing how it was done, they all united in singing that "Mothers love their children just the same all over the world.' The seven little girls were Phoebe Allen, Audburn Andrick, Alice Gertrude Davis, Dorothy Duncan, Genevieve Floyd, Mildred Smith and Dorothy Smith.

After a vocal solo by Louis Heinrich, "King of Love," Rev. Cottingham entered at'once into his subject. He wasted no time in starting, but began in the heart of thej matter at once. One could easily see that all the speaker's heart was in his work. He spoke not so much about the work itself but more of the necessity for doing the missionary work in the Philippines. He recited nothing by hearsay, telling only of things which he had witnessed. He paid his respects in no uncertain terms to his knowledge of the work of the Catholic church there, contrasting the glamor of their processions and ceremonies with the cruelty of the penance and the issuing of indulgences. He paid tribute to the American school teachers and the great, work they are doing over there, especially in teaching the value of hygiene and sanitation. It was an interesting address, and one that should have been heard to have been fully appreciated.

After a closing anthem by the choir, "Seek Ye the Lord," the au^ dience was dismissed by Rev. B. F. Dailey. This was the final meeting of a short series that has been held very successfully over the Richmond district this last week.

Col. W. I. Burnside's Sale Dales. George Furry, 7 miles southwest of Greenfield, will have a large sale on Thursday, October 2, 1913.

Leonard Foust, two miles east of Fortville, and two miles south of Ingalls, Wednesday, October 1st.

George Morehead, September 30, 1913, at his farm iVi miles southeast of Greenfield. This will be a big sale of stock, feed and implements.

Willard Hutchison, at 407 North Pratt street, Saturday, October 11, 1913, beginning at 1:30 p. m.

William T. Fisk win nave a public sale, September 26th, four and a half miles northeast of Greenfield. A fine lot of stock of all kinds and farm implements. (Advertisement)

Jubilee and Home-Coming There will be a jubilee and home coming day at the M. E. church in McCordsville, on Sunday, September 28th. The Sunday school will be followed by a short sermon by the pastor, and the assembly will then go to the school house lawn for a basket dinner* if the weather permits if not, they will use the basement. After dinner the crowd will be addressed by Rev. Wyant, of Fortville M. E. church.' You can not afford' to miss this meeting. Bring well-filled baskets and enjoy the day together.

GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY. SEPTEMLiiR 25, 1913

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Rev. Cottingham, Missionary From Philippines, Makes Interesting Talk at Bradley Churcli.

DEEP EXCAVATION FOR BASEMENT OF NEW REPORTER OFFICE REVEALS MANY

RELICS OF THE LONG AGO

VATS ANO TIMBERS ARE FOUND

Buried Seven Feet in the Bottom of the Former Swamp Recalls the Younger Days of "Uncle Gus" Randall, and

Time When Greenfield Was Not Nature's Beauty Spot

In the days when J. M. Hinchman, Winfield Lacy and John Hefferman were boys, that part of the city now occupied by the Columbia Hotel, the Hinchman block, and Solotken's junk yard, was a low, swampy section, good for nothing except vats for a tan-yard.

At that time "Uncle Gus" Ranr dall, who died a few years ago at a ripe old age, was a vigorous young man, and worked in the tan yard which occupied that section of the city. Great vats were sunk into the soft wet ground, in which were placed cow hides to be tanned in oak bark. Uncle Gus Randall carried great rolls of leather from this tan yard to Cambridge City,

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they were shipped to market,

would sometimes make the

round

trip in one day.

audience was shown clearly "how1 ^ew processes of tanning leather mothers rock their cradles," by the small local tan yards out seven little girls representing Lap-, business,, and the Greenfield tan land, India, South America, China,! yard

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who walked on the elevated sidewalk on the north side of Main street, which extended over the branch and low grounds between the present site of the Dudding & Moore block and the Quigley home.

The excavation now being made on East Main street, opposite the T. H. I. & E. station for a new building for the Reporter office, has caused many citizens to recall their boyhood days, when they looked from the high sidewalks over into the abandoned tan-yard, and saw the old vats. Several of them said they remembered an old building which stood north of the sidewalk. The ground was so low that a board which was placed on the sidewalk, extended over to the second story of the house, and it was used as the most convenient way of entering the house from the sidewalk.

After the old tan-yard was abandoned, all this low ground, being so near the center of the city, was used as a convenient dumping yard for all kinds of trash and dirt. As excavations were made for new buildings and streets, this ground was rapidly filled, until people who have known Greenfield for only the past fifty years, do not realize how low and swampy that section of the city formerly was. Persons building business rooms, and those who built the hotel, found some trouble in getting solid foundations.

The men at work on the excavation for The Reporter office building found old beech, elm and oak logs seven feet below the surface of the ground. The heart of the red beech logs w'ere as solid as when they were placed there sixty or more years ago. Even the bark was on them yet. A small stick of iron wood still retained its bark. One of the old tan-yard vats was exhumed, and the oak bark in it was as red as the day it was placed in the vat.

Many relics of tan-yard days were found, including an old steel scraper used in cleaning and dressing hides. An oil stone, used in sharpening the tools, was also discovered, and many other things. In fact, the workmen were constantly finding things of interest which reminded one of the days which were past and gone.

The. new Reporter office which is to be built, is directly in front of the traction station, and will be a one-story brick building, 30x106 feet. It will be a modern, up-to-date newspaper office.

Bert Armstrong and wife, of Warrington, were here today attending the Horse Show, HomeComing and Carnival. They took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Garriott. Mr. Armstrong is a brother of Mrs. Garriolt.

W. R. Grandison and Sandy Berthram, of Maxwell, are guests of Mr., and Mrs. Charles Barr.

Mrs. Paul H. New spent Tuesday at Indianapolis.

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FORMER GREENFIELD MAN DIES AT LOS ANGELES

News has been received here of the death at Los Angeles, Cal., last Friday of Judge Henry Clay Gooding, a brother of Miss Elvira Gooding of this city. His death was due to heart disease, caused indirectly it is thought by a wound he received several years ago, when he was shot through the lungs while walking in front of his home.

Judge Gooding was reared in this city and upon going West accumulated quite a fortune. He leaves a wife, son and daughter.

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PUBLIC SALE LIST

Swain & McDougall, 8 miles southwest of Greenfield, 4 miles southeast of New Palestine, on the Dugald McDougall farm, Tuesday, October 7, 1913.

Cliff Fielder, on the Frank Steele farm, mile north and 2 miles east of Mt. Comfort, and 2 miles west of Mohawk, 4% miles north of Gem, Stop 13, on the Honey Bee Traction Line, Friday, October 3d.

J. C. Drysdale, at the Capt. Card Farm, 2% miles southwest of town, Monday, September 29th.

Stanton Hurley, at the Buchfink farm, 2% miles southwest of Mt. Comfort, 2% miles northeast of Cumberland, on Friday, Sept. 30th.

W. P. Fisk, 2 miles east and 2M miles north of Greenfield, mile south and *4 mile east of Curry's Chapel, Friday, September 26th.

James A. Brown, mile south of Philadelphia, on the John M. Hall farm, dn Wednesday, October 1st.

CUMBERLAND POSTOFFICE MAY BE DISCONTINUED

It is reported that the Cumberland postoffice is to be discontinued in the near future. The patrons will receive their mail by rural route carrier from the surrounding postoffices. The arrangements for the change are now being made, it is said.

Harry Babb and family left Friday evening for Muncie. From there Mr. Babb will go to Texas, where he is employed in a glass factory.

The hogs of Sebron Jessup, in Blue River township, are sick with cholera, Mr. Jessup is one of the most successful hog raisers in this county.

Slices Off End of Finger. Glen Snodgrass, of Willett's grocery store, sliced off the end of a finger Friday evening while manipulating a meat slicer. A physician dressed the injured member.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Steele, of Indianapolis, are visiting Mrs. Sadie Burk. They will soon leave for a trip through the East, where they will visit Mr. Steele's parents.

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N. C. Binford Has Over 100 Tons Put Away Now—Used Cutter Blower—15 Acres of Corn

Nathan C. Binford was over to his farm a few days ago, when the work of filling a large silo was going on. Mr. Binford has two silos„ The one that he has just filled is of vitrified clay blocks, 12 inches square. It is 14-40 feet, and holds 100 tons of ensilage. The men began filling the silo about 10 o'clock Tuesday and completed it within a foot of the top by Wednesday evening. it took about 15 acres of green corn to fill it.

Cutter and Blower

The corn was cut with two cutting machines, and five wagons were used to haul it from the field to the silo where a Bay City Cutter and Blower was used to fill the silo. This machine cuts the corn into pieces about an inch long and a pipe or tube about eight inches in diameter, carried the chopped feed up to the top of the silo from the outside and then down to the bottom from the inside where three men moved the pipe about, filling all parts of the silo evenly as they packed it by walking over it. Mr. Binford did not use water in packing the ensilage, but he does not cover the silos at any time, and the feed gets all the rains.

Makes Cheap Winter Feed Mr. Binford figures that the fifteen acres of corn used to fill this silo would average about 80 bushels per acre, which at 60 cents a bushel would be worth about $750. This would make the ensilage cost him about $7.00 per ton, which is very cheap for this rich winter feed, as the 100 tons in this silo wilt" feed 40 to 50 head of cattle from the time pasture is gone in the fall until it comes again in the spring.

Mr. Binford has a silo 16x28 feet which will be filled later, and last year the feed contained in this silo took 48 head of feeding steers through the winter and was also fed to milch cows, horses, etc.

The field of corn which was cut up for ensilage this year, and which would make 80 bushels per acre, was afield that had formerly been in alfalfa. It was a rich green color throughout the season, and Mr. Binford thinks it is proof of the value of alfalfa as a fertilizer.

Real Estate Transfers

Amanda Tibbets et al., to Sarah E. Morris, lot city, $700. Indiana Yearly Meeting et al. to F. M. Binford, 80 acres land, $3,600.

Hannah R. Robbins et al.

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F. Brown, lot city, $200.

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Mrs. Pearl E. Tyner, who has been at Walnut Grove, 111., for a few months, has returned home.

L. N. Larrabee, of Gem, was in Greenfield today.

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