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VOL. XXXV. NO. 6

STORM AT SEA MAOERIA ISLE

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WM. II. MOORE ON BOARD FRANCOMA IN ATLANTIC OCEAN, DESCRIBES STORM AT SEA

IN A GRAPHIC AND INTERESTING MANNER

VISITS THE ISLE OF MADERIA

Takes Exciting Sled Ride Down tlie Mountain Side on Isle Famous For Wines and Laces—Entertained by Portuguese in '•Race for Life"—Interesting Account of

Trip's Beginning by Mr. Moore

The following letter from W. H. Moore, who with his wife, is making an extended pleasure trip, contains interesting accounts of some of their experiences as they are starting their trip. Mr. and Mrs. Moore were on board the steamship Franconia, crossing the Atlantic Ocean when the letter was written, January 22d. The letter follows: "Two days out of New York, the Franconia was gliding over waters of the Atlantic which were smooth as glass. From the globe trotter down to the tender-foot were men boasting of their great sailing powers. On the morning of the third day tfie unwonted change came. Clouds black as ink were gathering. The wind was high and the ship rolling. Deck crewrs were bunched with faces like chalk, speaking low and watching the gathering clouds. On entering the dining room, the chairs and tables were found securely chained to the floor, and something resembling a hoop was fastened about the top of the dining tables. Familiar faces were not present, especially those w'ho had been sampling all that w?as on the bill of fare. The storm kept coming and growing wrorse until the sea had no resemblance to water. It foamed and frothed and looked like mountains of drifted snow. "The Franconia acted scandalous. She rolled and pitched and bucked and had all actions of a broncho, yes, worse than an outlaw. Standing in the bow of deck A, or hanging to a guard rail, you could see the waves coming. They looked like volcanoes. They would lash broadside against the ship, and when she ducked they w'ould pass over her bow. Although she took an awful beating, she was a glutton for punishment and kept on boring in after more. In the steerage bow were seven hundred Bohunks, huddled together like swine. They were swept off their feet and cut down like blades of grass. Were they not before, they are now fullfledged Baptists, for they were sprinkled, poured and thoroughly immersed. "'About twenty-eight hundred miles out of New York to the south and cast, surrounded by the waters of the Atlantic, will be found a spot 28 miles in length, 12 miles in width, with the highest peak, 3,000 feet above the sea. She wears a dress of perpetual green, and is known the world over for her fine wines and embroidery. On the morning of the 8th the sun shone brightly, the sea was calm and weather mild. Lighters took us ashore, where the unexpected was to be seen and one surprise followed another. The inhabitants are Portuguese. The streets narrow, all paved with small round stones, smooth and about the size of a potato. No horses, wagons or carts you are carried around in sleds, drawn by two well-kept oxen.

We were placed on a sled and down the narrow streets we went. After an hour or more the bulls halted in front of the Cog Railway station, where we entered the observation .car, and the grind began. On and on we went, every foot of earth beinp utilized. Flowers and plants of every known variety are there.

Then came the grapes and sugar cane, orange and lemon groves. The road was of the zig-zag kind, and when we were told to dismount we were at the high point, 3,000 feet above the Atlantic. "Then came the downward trip. They called it the I'race for life," and again we were placed on the sled and securely strapped to the seat, sledswere made to Carry two persons, and were nicely

upholstered and the runners well greased. They were manned by two husky Portuguese w'ho had tasted bear meat, for they had bad blood in their eyes. The sleds were lined up, your huskies on each side, and a rope from the sled to their arms. Police patrolled the place of starting and gave the orders when to go. The road or race course was paved the same as the streets, with smooth, small stones, and the course had many curves and angles. Then came the command to go. The sleds wrere shoved off the crest and—down we went, with our huskies yelling and screaming. All was excitement. At first we closed our eyes and expected every moment to be dashed against the stone wall and land in the bottom of the canyon a thousand feet below7. Later on, we began feeling the effect of the Maderia wines, and wre entered into the sport. When we forged ahead we wanted to stay there, and urged our huskies to go to it, and win the race. On we went around the curves and down the mountain slope. The half-wray cabin passed and down we went, going like blue blazes, first one ahead and then the other fellow, all yelling like mad and urging their drivers, to hit the high places and beat 'em to it. We were cutting every angle, a dozen sleds were fighting for first place. The last quarter pole is in sight. Natives lined up clapping hands and urging their favorite sled drivers to win out. The "race for life" ends at the dock. The lighters were there. We were carried out to sea and put aboard the Franconia. Of such is the Isle of Maderia. "W. H. MOORE."

HAVENS BUYS THE GOODING PROPERTY

Fred T. Havens Now Owner of Old Gooding Home Will Remodel West Side for Business Room

Fred T. Havens, one of Greenfield's young grocerymen, has purchased the old David Gooding home, a two-story brick property, opposite his grocery on Main street, just wrest of Gorman's meat market. He purchased the property of L. H. Browrn, who has owned it for several years, getting it from C. W. Schmidt, who purchased it at public sale when the property of David Gooding was sold.

Mr. Havens gave $4,000 for the property. He will remodel the west side of the house for a business room, and move his grocery across the street to it. In remodeling the building, he will take out the front and extend it out to the sidewalk, and take the partitions out of the interior of the west side. The work will be started at pnce. The east side and second floor over the business room will be rented for living apartments.

Thomas-Davis.

Berlin Thomas and Miss Nellie M. Davis were married at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Davis, Pratt and Grant street. The ceremony wras performed by Rev. Mack Crider. Following the marriage, ice cream and cake were served. Mr. Thomas is a pharmacist in the drug store of the Early Drug Co., and is a splendid young man. He is a brother of Fred S. Thomas, of the W. P. Johnson drug store. The young couple have the best wishes of their many friends.

Eighty Years Old Friday, Jan. 23d On Friday, January 23, 1914, some of the relatives of Cyrus Manning gathered at his home and helped celebrate his eightieth birthday. On that occasion they had a trial shooting match with an old-fashion rifle, wiiich Uncle Cy, as he is commonly called, showed his son, and a great many of the young boys, how to shoot. Considering his advanced age, he is very nimble and supple, with not a gray hair on his head.

XV Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Roberts, of Jackson township, had for their guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Ora Clutter and son, Carey Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dorman, Mr. and Mrs. John Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dobbins and daughter, Muriel, and Harry Roberts. Mr. Roberts will soon move from Jackson township to the Parker farm, near Cumberland.

80-Acre farm to rent. Possession March 1st. France Felt. 5d2-wlp (Advertisement)

(Mr TAKES OVER THE SMRO ROAD

The former contractors had done only a few hundred dollars' worth of work on the contract, and the work had been hanging fire about two years.

A petition has been filed with the county auditor by Charles Manifold and others for the construction of a gravel road 7% miles long on the Hancock and Madison county line. A joint ryeeting of the commissioners of the two counties will be held to consider the petition.

A Surprise Dance.

GREENFIELD, 11%)., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1914.

Accepts Big Contract From Firm of Boucher & McCord—Work Has Hung Fire a Long Time.

James A. Cleary, former county surveyor, has taken over from Contractors Boucher & McCord their contract to construct the Sivard road in Blue River township. The road to be built is three miles long and the contract price was almost $10,000. It was started while Mr. Cleary wras surveyor, and he held over on it as engineer. When he accepted the contract from Boucher & McCord to construct the road, he resigned as engineer, and G. C. Winslow, present surveyor, was appointed engineer.

Friends of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Wiggins planned and carried out a successful surprise on them Tuesday evening. They will soon move from this neighborhood to their new home south of Greenfield. Card playing and dancing were features of the evening. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dobbins and daughter, Muriel Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Reynolds, daughter, Inez, sons, Victor and Clifford Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Moncrief, daughter, Mary, and sons. Roy and Milo Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Keaton, daughters, Nell and Mabel Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nicholson and daughter, Mary Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Schneider, son, Lowell, and daughters, Doris, Edna, Leona and Marguerite Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hagans and son, Homer Samuel Shoemaker and daughter, 'Nettie Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson, son, Ralph, daughters, Ruby and Pearl Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wallsmith, sons, Anson, Raymond and Emory, and daughter, Edna Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fuller, daughter, Marie, sons. Glen,and Ralph Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hinehman, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Snider and son, Glen Marie Jones and David Burk. One who was there.

Suit for Divorce.

Thomas E. Amos has filed suit for a divorce from Hypithia Amos. He alleges that she compels him to make a living for her three children, two of which are 18 and 20 years old, respectively, and earning money, while she refuses to let his 15 year old son live with them, or to cook for him although he has no place to stay.

WILL OPEN SATURDAY

A. A. Gappen has moved hi^ bicycle shop and store from the room on the corner of Main and Mount street, to the Howard building, the first door east of Fisk's meat market, in the room recently occupied as a pool room. We will have everything in readiness to open for business again Saturday morning, and invite you to call. Bicycles, motorcycles, repairs, etc. Always ready. A. A. GAPPEN. (Advertisement)

Notice

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Mt. Comfort Telephone Company will be held at Mt. Comfort Saturday, February 14th, at 10 a. m. O. C. SNIDER, 4d9-w2 Secretary.

For Sale—1,000 bushels of good white seed oats 45 cents a bushel. Henry Jacobi, Route 4, Greenfield. ''v ,Advertisement—31d4-wlp

Grant Morris, of near KnightstoWn, was in Greenfield Tuesday, advertising a public sale for Lee J. Baker and Grant Morris, Feb. 19th.

Josephine Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed P. Wilson, of East street, has been suffering several days with a gathered head.

Marriage Licenses

Ernest W. Jacobs to Audrey J. Luse. Qlen Miller to Mary Alma Wil-

PURITY RESCUE HOME

Rev. Henry Hasting and wife, who have been prominent in the work of the Mission Churches of this city for several years, have converted their home on tague street into a "Rescue Mission Home" for girls, and are working out plans for the support of the institution until it can, be made self-sustaining by the work done by inmates of the Home. The Hasting home has ten rooms, and these will all be used as required. The institution will be knowrn as the "Purity Rescue Home of Greenfield."' and will be statewide in its scope of work, according to the present plans. Mr. Hastings home has been known for years among the people of his church far and wide as the "Booster Station," the "Friendly Inn," and "Hasting Flats," everybody in need of help that they can render finding a warm welcome and encouragement there. The new home will not be denominational in any way, Mr. Hasting says, the sole and only purpose being to help fallen or stranded girls, giving them the irtfluence of a Christian home and a better outlook on life. Mr. and Mrs. Hasting will be assisted in the work by C. B. Huston and wife, returned missionaries from Africa, and others in the field over the state. For two years Rev. Hasting has been pastor of the East Greenfield Mission church and has done much in a material way to relieve the needs of the destitute ones in this city. He says he is ready to sacrifice his home and all he has in this new work which he feels he and his wife are called to do. He thinks such a home here will be much more effective in its wrork than if located at Indianapolis, as the surrounding influences will be much better and outside influences for evil much easier to combat and the results more sure and lasting.

GAVE MONEY AWAY VIOLENTLY INSANE

Rushville Man Who Created Excitement at Chicago on Street, Will Be Restrained.

Horace Hilligoss, who has been in jail here since Tuesday morning, when his actions led the police to believe that he wras insane, was declared insane Wednesday by a commission composed of Drs. J. G. Lewis, W. C. Smith and William S. Coleman, says the Rushville Daily Republican. Applications will be made at once for his admission to the insane asylum at Madison.

Hilligoss still labors under the delusion that he is worth all kinds of money and is even worse than he was last Saturday at Chicago, when he stood on a street corner and passed out $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills to a street crowd. It was at first thought that Hilligoss might be temporarily insane due to excessive drinking, but the physicians who conducted the inquest, declare that he is violently insane, and that it is not temporary, although it is possible that he can be cured.

The inquest was conducted at the jail before Squire Kratzer. It was not thought best to take Hilligoss from the jail. He declared to the doctors .that he had a proposition that would increase the population of Rushville to 25,000 in thirty days. He did not want any of their money to help on the plan, as he had millions. He still insisted that he was going to give a banquet at all the hotels in the city. Hilligoss has not eaten anything since being placed in jail and insists that he should be released. He absolutely refuses to eat any of the food handed out by Sheriff Cavitt. Hilligoss has a decided hatred for Chief Rosencrance, and every time he comes in sight of his cell he is subjected to a severe cursing. He recognizes Rosencrance as one of the men that placed him in jail.

We have a few more blankets we will sell at cost in order to get the room for our spring stock/ J. M. Havens & Co. 5d2-wl-(Advertisement)

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Mrs. Robert Fair is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wilhelm on Route 1.

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John Clark and Morton Binford, who have been home for a short vacation, returned to DePauw today.

Miss Gertrude Vaughn is out of school suffering with pleurisy.

EARL MARSH, JAMES BRIDGES AND GEORGE BOTTSFORD ALL FIRST PRIZE

WINNERS

The Citizens' Bank Corn Show closed Saturday, and the prize winners w7ere announced. There were many people at the Armory Saturday inspecting the corn. Earl Marsh, James Bridges and George Bottsford were congratulated on being the three first prize winners.

The complete list of winners of prizes in the three classes is as follows:

Yellow Corn—Open Class Name. Prize. Score. Earl Marsh 1 83 Omer Johnson 2 79% Leslie Leonard 3 77 George Eaton 4 75 John Yetters 5 75^

White Corn—Open Class Name. Prize. Score. James Bridges 1 79% W. H. H. Rees 2 78 James White 3 75% F. M. Sanford 4 72% George Bottsford 5 71%

Yellow or White—Bank Class Name. Prize. Score. George Bottsford 1 79 W. K. Boyd 3 77 F. M. Sanford 3 77 Carl Yetters 4 76 H. F. Chandler 5 75%

TERRIBLE ARRAIGNMENT SHOCKING CONDITIONS

Hammond Paper Says Greenfield Deported Undesirable Family There—Sent Them Back.

The Lake County Times, of Hammond, Ind., in its issue of Friday, January 16th, prints a terriDle arraignment of the Williams family who formerly lived in this city, but who left here two years ago for Indianapolis. The Hammond paper accuses the Greenfield authorities of deporting the family to that city, and said the Hammond authorities intended to return the compliment. This they evidently did, as they are back here, living on Osage street, having arrived last week.

The Times speaks in the harshest terms of the 19-year-old girl of the family, wiio will be remembered as having escaped from the sheriff here on one occasion, leading him a merry chase before she was in custody again. Continuing, the Times says, in part: "It appears, from the trend of affairs, that civilization has no welcome for the Williams family in their present state of moral rottenness. At least they are not desired in the neighborhood of the Lincoln school, wThere they are living in surroundings that surpass description. A cot a bed on the floor, a box, an oil lamp and filthy bedding comprise the furnishings of a room for which there is no entrance for light or air. The door is kept locked and securely bolted. The father tyis all the appearance of a mad-man, unshaven, wild-eyed and ragged. The girl is in a terrible physical condition. The boys are despicable "characters." It further states that the family has been booted from pillar to post, from West Hammond to East Hammond, and are not wanted any place and that they were in danger of summary punishment ii they remained at Hammond.

Investigate our prices on harness, bridles and blankets. WTe are so situated that we can meet all competition and we defy anyone to undersell us. J. M. Havens & Co. d2-w (Advertisement)

J. H. Hay worth e, of the internal revenue collector's office at Indianapolis, was in Greenfield today and made some explanation of the new Income Tax law. He said all persons who had a net income from any source of $2,500 or more from March 1, 1913, to January 1, 1914, must render a return to the collector of internal revenue before March 1st, next. Blanks may be obtained from Hon. P. J. Kruyer, collector, at Indianapolis. Anyone with the above net income who fails to make the required return, will be liable to a heavy fine.

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Mrs. James Souder, of Route 7, ip sick.

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ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR

We have just received information that the First National Nurseries of Rochester. N. Y., wants lady or gentlemen representatives in this locality to sell all kinds of roses, shrubs, trees and seeds. They intorm us that without previous experience it is possible to make good wages e\erv week. Anyone out of employment write them for terms and enclose this notice. 5w3 (Advertisement)

We will put on sale, Salurday, 1-ebruary 7th. one lot of blind bridles for $2.00 each. This is the best bargain you ever bought in bridles. J. M. Havens & Co. 5d2w (Advertisement)

Now is the time to begin looking after your spring work. Call at J. M. Havens & Co. and examine his line of harness, especially his $2.00 blind bridle, the best on the market for the money. 5d2-wt (Advertisement)

MY MOTTO: The highest class and most up-to-date storm and young men's buggies kept in stock all leaders in their lines. Honest dealings with my customers. Secondhand buggies taken in trade, and for sale. GEO. W. REED, 111 North State Street. 5dl-5w2 (Advertisement)

Mrs. O. E. Oxer returned Sunday from Hillsdale, III., where she was called by the illness of her husband. Mrs. Oxer made a short visit with her sister at Rochester, before returning.

Thomas Seaman, the new Democratic county chairman, and Benjamin McClarnon, of Maxwell, were in Greenfield today.

FRUIT IS SAFE SAY LOCAL MEN

WELL KNOWN GROWERS ARE NOT ALARMED, BUT SAY SLEET IS A BENEFIT,

WHERE LIMBS ARE NOT BROKEN

According to local authorities on. the subject, the fruit prospects for this year will not be injured or endangered in the least by the sudden change in weather Friday night, which was accompanied by sleet and snow.

James N. Goble, who managed the Goble fruit farm, west of this city several years, said today that it was his opinion that the fruit prospects had not been injured *in the least. He said there had not been enough warm weather to cause the trees to begin budding at this early date, and that the present weather was not severe enough to cause any uneasiness.

Elijah A. Henby, nurseryman and fruit grower, was of the same opinion as Mr. Goble on this subject, and stated in addition that the sleet and snow would be a benefit to the fruit prospects, where it was not breaking the limbs of the trees, as it is a protection to them. He, too, said there had not been enough warm weather to cause one to feel any uneasiness at this time should cold weather set in.

REPUBLICAN MEETINGS

The Republicans of Indiana are to meet on the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, February 12th. at Indianapolis.. Former Governor Augustus E. Wilson, of Kentucky, will be present, and address the meeting. He is an impressive speaker and brilliant orator.

The Republican State Committee will be reorganized and prominent Republicans from all over the state will be present. Leaders of the Lincoln League will also be present and take part in the party work' preparatory to the coming Congressional and State campaign.

The Republican Editorial Association will also meet at that time and there will be a banquet at the Claypool Hotel Thurbday evening. All Republicans desiring to attend the banquet can secure tickets of1 Leo K. Fesler, Indianapolis, or Geo. B. Lockwood, Muncie. "s?

This combination of meetings will be the starting of the campaign. and Republicans all over Indiana^ are cordially invited to attend. -v

Glen Jackson has resumed work at the Diamond Chain Factory at Indianapolis, after a few days' absence on account of sickness.

Carl Harvey is on the sick list/

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