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f^b Albert Alyea and wife were the guests of Sidney Smith and wife Sunday.

Clarence Snodgrass, wife and daughter, Agnes, spent Sunday with Marshall Russell and wife at Morristown.

Claud Fritts and family called on Dillard Joyce and wife Sunday. sb® Mrs. William Jordan and family entertained the following guests

Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jordan, of New Palestine, and her sister, Mrs. Mary Helms, and daughter, Lucretia, and grandson, Phillip, of Indianapolis, and Mr. and Mrs. Claud Carlton and son, Noel, of Broad Ripple Station. The trip was made in Mr. Carlton's Overland touring car.

Clarence Snodgrass and family called on William Allen and family Saturday evening.

Miss Mary Tucker entertained Sunday evening, Burl Russell and Miss Chattie Phares and Elverett Bush.

Mrs. George Moore spent last week with her mother, Mrs. Jordan and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Morris Drake and daughter, Catherine, called on Mrs. Tucker Saturday evening.

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Miss Louise Bell, of Columbus, Ohio, is visiting Misses Mary and Virginia Gray for a few weeks.

Mrs. Nellie Luse, of Charlottesville, spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Binford. Mrs. Binford has been confined to her bed for several days with a complication of troubles. She was resting easier Sunday.

Mr. Moss and family attended services at Wesland Sunday. They received a cordial welcome and we iiope they may return often.

Bible school and meeting keep up well during the hot weather. Some of the Bible school scholars are making a good record in attendance, punctuality, contribution and interest manifested. It pays to make such records in early life and continue all through the years.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Cook entertained Dr. T. R. Woodard and Justice Binford Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Brooks entertained at dinner Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. David Hastings and Miss Halsie Hastings, of Charlottesville, and Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Elliott.

Mrs. L. A. Binford and Miss Elma Binford called on Mrs. D. A. Binford Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. Ted Feucht and Miss Anna Feucht, of Indianapolis, came Sunday to spend a few days with their sister, Mrs. Orlando V. Cook and husband, in their new home.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Binford spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William McClarnon.

Mr. and Mrs. 0. V. Cook, with their guests, Mrs. and Miss Feucht, called on Mrs. L. A. and Miss Elma Binford Sunday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Elliott took Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brown and little son to their home at Richmond Monday afternoon, remaining over night and visiting Mr. Elliott's sister, Mrs. Thomas and family, of Fountain City. Tuesday they went to West Elkton, Ohio, to spend the day with another sister, Miss Fannie Elliott, and returning home Wednesday, making the trip in their auto. They enjoyed the ride and the country, together with the pleasant visits.

W. P. Binford is improving the appearance of his tenant property with paint.

Miss Eliza Hiatt, who has been spending a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Emma Holding and family, went to Greenfield Sunday evening to visit her sister, Mrs. M. J. Wheeler.

Mesdames Emma Holding and Eliza Hiatt spent Friday with Mrs. M. J. Elliott and husband.

Omer Binford has purchased a new automobile. F. N. Edwards and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gox went to Winchester Sunday in their auto.

Miss Audrey Gillispie spent Monday at Indianapolis.

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Rev. Addison filled the pulpit at the Christian church here Sunday. Clancy Low was calling on Harry Bennett Sunday. Mr. Bennett was thrown from his motorcycle some time ago and had his leg broken in two places. Mr. Low nursed him for eight weeks.

John James, of Indianapolis, visited his parents here Sunday. His mother is in poor health.

Henry Ridlen and family, of Route 4, out, of Greenfield, visited Mrs. Ridlen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hurst here Sunday.

Perry Duncan and wife visited their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 0. N. Willard. Sunday.

John Low and wife had as their guests Sunday, Mrs. Noble Parish, of Gwynneville, and Mattie Parker and baby. Katherine. of Route 1.

Mrs. Slifer is at the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. -Boring, who is very sick.

Nathan Hardy had a good horse to die Sunday from lockjaw. Mrs. Burk and wife called on his brother-in-law, Mr. Wickard, Sunday. Mr. Wickard is sick with typhoid fever.

While threshing wheat Thursday of last week, Mr. Finwick fell from the threshing machine and hurt his side.'

The play given by the ladies of the Methodist church here Saturday night was a success both socially and financially. A large crowd was present. Twenty-five dollars were cleared.

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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reasoner, of Louisville, Kentucky, were guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Buesking, last week.

Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Ricer, Mr. and Mrs. Will Amos and son, Harold, and Mr. and Mrs. Orie Cotton and family of Lawrence, are camping this week on the banks of Fall Creek.

Mrs. Winn was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hector Huntington over Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright, of Mt. Comfort, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Harvey at dinner Sunday.

Mrs. Christian Retlimeyer, Mrs. Alfred Bonge and Mrs. Fred Hintzman were called to Spiceland this week on account of the serious illness of their sister, Mrs. George Carr.

Irene Huntington wont to Franklin last week to visit friends and attend the Baptist Assembly in session there.

Prof. Smith, who has been taking a special course of study at Purdue University, lias returned home.

Rev. Hackleman will preach at the Baptist church Sunday morning. In the evening he will conduct services at the M. E. church, assisted by the pastor, Rev. Briggs.

Mrs. Fred W. Weise and daughter, Frances Mrs. Will Gale and son, Hugo, and Mrs. John Langenberg and sons. Frank and Floyd, picnicked at Broad Ripple Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Weise and children, Mrs. Milo McCreary and chil— drtn, Mrs. Henry Ploenges and Mr. and Mrs. John Ferguson visited Mr. and Mrs. James Ferguson, at their camp on Sugar Creek, last Wednesday.

John Harvey, of Indianapolis, and Harry Ogle, of Mansfield, Ohio, were guests of Mrs. Sarah Harvey, at dinner Thursday.

Mrs. D. T. Ricer and Mrs. Joseph Ebaugh will entertain the Baptist Ladies' Aid Society next Thursday afternoon, August 6th, at the home of Mrs. Ricer. The ladies of the community are invited.

Jesse Ebaugh and family, of Indianapolis, were guests' of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ebaugh at dinner Sunday.

A large number of people attended the funeral of Charles Brier, which occurred Saturday at the German Lutheran church. Mr.! Brier was one of the oldest citizens of this community and was highly respected by all who knew him.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coleman were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Weber at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Coleman

HOW CHILDREN GROW

Children grow by nourishment—not overloaded stomachs or rich foods but qualities-that are readily converted into life-sustaining blood too often their digestive powers cannot procure these qualities from ordinary foods which results in weakness, dullness and sickness.

If your children are under-size, under' weight, catch cold easily, are languid, backward, pale or frail, give them Scott's Emulsionwhichis pure medicinal nourishment. It sharpens the appetite, builds healthy flesh,, firm muscles and active brains. Scatt'g isffrowing-food tot children.' Refuse alcoholic substitutes.

DO NOT HAVE TO COT THE WEEDS

In response to your inquiry of this day, will say that Section 7807, Burns' R. S., provides that land owners shall cut all briars, thistles, burrs, dock and other noxious weeds growing along or through their lands, within the period beginning July 1 and ending August 20 each year. This law was enacted in 1897. The act is broad and it does not seem to have laen modified or repealed by subsequent enactments.

Section 2 of this act provides that when the land owner shall have destroyed the weeds in the highway adjacent to his land under the direction of the road supervisor of his district, he shall be entitled to credit on his road taxes at the rate of $1.25 a day for the time occupied in doing the work. 7

By Section 3 of the act, if the land owner neglects or refuses to do this work, the supervisor may secure any resident property owner of the road district to do such work, and give him like credit therefor on his road taxes.

No penalty is provided for failure to do the work by the land owner, and the supervisor is not authorized to "warn out" the land owner to do such work. It seems to be optional with the land owner as to whether he will do the work and get credit therefor.

While the highway superintendent is required by Section 7757, Burns' R. S., to "keep all side ditches open so that the road will be properly drained," and to keep "grass" out of the roadbed, he is not authorized to "warn out" order or direct the land owner to cut or destroy weeds in the highway.

In my judgment, the purpose of the statute was to enable the land owners to destrjby weeds in the highways along their farms, and to get credit for the work on their road taxes, but that there is no way to compel the land owner to do the work unless he so desires.

New Case Filed.

Kate McConnell, et al., vs. Jasper E. McConnell, et al. Suit for partition of real estate.

Robins and the Law.

•We must confess to a peculiar interest in the robins this year. It is their first return since Uncle Sam put into effect his law preventing the slaughter of migratory song birds. Formerly in the Southern States the robins were slaughtered by the millions and used for food. We had a curiosity to know whether the Federal restrictions would be seen in increased numbers of red breasts here this summer. From the returns already received we are forced to the conclusion they have been and will be seen.—South Bend Tribune.

William Sears, of near Pendleton, who with his wife and family were in an automobile which went down an embankment a few days ago, was a cousin erf William Sears of Route 7. Mr. Sears and members of his family were injured.

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GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, JULY 30. 1914

Opinion of State Examiner Says It Is Optional With Land Owners. Get $1.25 Per Day.

That it is optional with land owners along Indiana's county and township highways whether they will cut the weeds along the highways from July 1 to August 20, of each year, receiving $1.25 a d^y for such labor, is a point made to-day by Gilbert H. Hendren, State" examiner, of the State board of accounts, in an opinion given to C. V. Hodgin, trustee of Union township, Montgomery county, says the Rushville Republican. The opinion is of wide interest throughout the rural districts. It reads as follows:

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FUTURE RETDIBUTION SUBJECT UF SERMON

Rev. Charlton Preaches Unusual Sermon at Union Service— Good Attendance In Spite of Heat.

Rev. John T. Charlton "preached the sermon at the union services in the Methodist Protestant church, Sunday evening. There was a large attendance, notwithstanding the excessive heatu Rev. Charlton gave his.sermon on "Future-Retribution," which he had preached' some time ago in the First Presbyterian church and which many had expressed a desire to hear. He said in part: "There is probably no feature of the Christian religion so generally misunderstood and often caricatured as the teaching concerning the punishment of sin. And it must be confessed that the church 5s in part to blame. Christian teachers have gone beyond the letter and presented this doctrine in a form abhorent to thoughtful men. "Long before Jesus came, philosophers and poets had speculated concerning the doom of the wicked, and it was inevitable that something of pagan thought and feeling should find its way into the church. "The first converts were from paganism, and a pagan, on becoming a Christian, did not leave behind him all the impressions of early education. "Every man, it has been said, carries his cradle with him. No matter what we may become, we can never entirely escape the thing we have been. "The great poet of the mediaeval church is Dante and Dante owes his reputation to the fact tbat he wrote about hell. He got his ideas largely from the pagan world. "Three hundred years later, came John Milton, who also wrote about hell. He borrowed his imagery largely from Dante and Virgil. Dante and Milton have done more to shape the 'popular conception of punishment' than all the preachers who have preached within the last three hundred years. But we must not put all the blame on the poets. The preachers must come in for their full share. Coarse and reckless men in the pulpit have painted the woes of the sinner in language which have driven men to cry out, 'Has God no mercy?' Men like Jonathan Edwards and Charles Spurgeon have preached occasional sermons which have been a travesty on the gospel and a libel on God. "What does Ihe Bible teach on this subject? Will you not agree with me that the idea of retribution is held in the background? The gospel is a message of good news. Ft, is not good news that some are to be punished. Christianity approaches with words of sweetness and light. The sermon on the Mount begins with 'Blessed,' eight times repeated. "But remember that these are not all of the sermon. We read, 'If your right hand offend you, cut it off or, 'If your right eye, pluck it out.' "In another place, 'Straight is the gate and narrow is the way, that leads to life. Wide is the gate and broad the way which leads to destruction.' "There is an abundance of sunshine in the New Testament, but near every sunbeam, there is a shadow. "Jesus seldom spoke of punishment to his disciples. His severe and awful words were drawn from Him by the reckless actions of sinful men. His great parables of judgment were all spoken within a week of the end of His life. It was only after the nation had rejected Him that He told men of their awful doom. This, then, is the method of the New Testament. It speaks of joy and gladness, of light and music of love and glory. It is not until men have turned their back on all of these that it utters the dark word, 'Woe!' "It is sometimes said that preachers do not preach retribution any longer. The answer is that ministers to-day do not give the place to retribution which was given by the preachers of a hundred years ago. Retribution is still taught and that with earnestness and plainness in every Christian pulpit, but with the proportion and balance of the New Testament. "The supreme business of the minister is to give encouragement and cheer, to lift up the shadows of daily experience, to make it easier to be good. But the thought of retribution is always in the background. .In every church, there are those who are careless, some growing worse. There are hardened

And hence, on occasional Sundays, the minister will turn aside from pleasant themes and call attention to the darkness of the road that leads to death. "What, then, is the New Testament doctrine of retribution? Sin is punished. Every sin is punished. When the New Testament speaks of penalty, there are no wavering introductions, no interrogation points. Lines are drawn straight. There are two goals, one is life and the other, destruction.

Two directions, one leads to eternal punishment, the other to life eternal. "Sin is punished naturally, not mechanically, not arbitrarily. 'Whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap. If he sows to the flesh, he reaps corruption. If he •sows to "the spirit, he reaps life eternal.' •. "Sins- grow as Virtues do.- First the blade, then the ear and then the. full corn. Sin, when it is finished^ brings forth death. If a fruit tree does not bring forth good fruit, it is cut down and gotten out of the way. The tares are separated from the wheat and burned. The fisherman throws away the bad fish. The New Testament tells us that the same common sense that men exercise in their ordinary occupations will be made manifest in government of world. "Sin is punished fairly, impartially and equitably. Christianity knows nothing of a great pit into which all sinners are swept indiscriminately. The justice of God is perfect. The punishments of earth are all vitiated by human infirmity. Parental discipline is often partial, unreasonable. "In our legal system, many guilty men escape. All men know that many do not receive their just deserts. "But in divine government, there is no such blundering. The punishment is so just that it becomes beautiful. We can not palm off professions before God. "All sins are not equally heinous. He said some would be beaten with many stripes, and others with only a few. This is as we would say— some sins will bring you to the jail, others to the penitentiary and others to the electric chair. Divine justice is so just that it becomes glorious. No sinner will ever say he was punished beyond his deserts. "The consequences of sin are terrible—they are awful beyond the reach of thought. The one frightful thing in the universe is sin. Every man should keep clear of it. That God is severe in his punishment of. sin, the New Testament does not allow any man to doubt. "But this is not all of sin that we see in this world. Sin goes 011 into the world to come if unforgiven.

What we are here, we are goii"u (0 be in the next. The penalties of sin become more grievous on the other side of death. As Paul puts it,, some men's sins are evident, going before judgment, other men, they follow after. This is the teaching of the parable of Dives and Lazarus. "Death, like a fire, burnt up his fine linen and his banquet table. Death burnt up the rags of Lazarus and all his sores. In the next world, there was no linen, no banquet, no rags, no sores, only two men, and one of the two was in torment. "Thus far, the teaching of Christianity is unmistakable. But men want to know beyond what is written. Who will be saved? What is the condition of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, who lived before Christ? What about the heathen who have not heard of Christ? "We can not say certainly of any man that he is sure to go heaven, nor can we say of any man that he can never enter eternal blessedness. 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.' The New Testament gives no information concerning the nature of future punishment nor the blessedness of the blessed. "How can we say what are the possibilities of either joy or woes? But it can be affirmed that the majority of Bible students have been driven to conclusion that the Bible does not allow us to believe that all souls will be eternally saved. "That there are souls which will endure forever and be fixed in a state of unblessedness has much in its support, both in Scripture and in reason. There is atone of finalitty in the gospels. Men are left in outer darkness. The gulf is fixed. The tares are separated from the wheat. The evil tree is cut down. To think, then, that it is possible that some souls may never be saved is neither barbarous nor preposterous. "People who talk against this doctrine, talk against ideas which are not a part of it. One says, how preposterous it is that God should punish a man forever for a few sins i«i this world. "Nobody believes that a man will be punished forever for the sins he has committed on earth. If a man is punished forever, it. will be sim-

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leaves this world, a sinner, unforgiven and unreconciled to God, and" he remains forever in that condition, going on sinning. There is no opportunity for change after death. "Another man says, no father would punish a child forever. This.: sounds plausible, but it is very shallow. The relation of a child to its earthly parent is not the relation of a soul to God. The punishments of: an earthly parent are superficial. No human punishment reaches the fibre of the mind or the structure of the soul. "All that we can say is that in the teaching of Jesus, penalty has no end in sight. How can any man say that every prodigal will come home? Who knows enough to be able to say it? Certainly all .such assertions run beyond what is written. Who knows the power of resistance in the human will? And how can any man assert that sin, no jmatter how long continued inf. can finally be escaped? "The New Testament leaves certain sinners .in outer darkness. If there is a way to put an end to it, God knows it and He will do it. "The New Testament leaves men on both sides of an impassable gulf. The New Testament does not bridge it, God knows how. If it is possible to do it, He will do it. According to the New Testament, some go into eternal punishment and some eternal life. If there is a way by which the soul can pass from punishment to life, God alone knows it. The Christian church has not had it revealed. "As twenty century people, we take the words of Jesus and neither add to them, nor subtract from them. The Judge of all the earth will do right."

GIVES SEEF UP RELEASED ON BOND

John P. Smith, Who Shot Shirley Marshal Several Weeks Ago, Returned to New Castle.

New Castle.—John D. Smith, who shot Marshal Sorrel, of Shirley, several weeks ago, returned to New Castle and was released under $500 bond. Smith was acting as marshal for Sorrel and when the latter sold his blacksmith shop, Smith refused to turn over the place as marshal to him. In the fight Sorrel was shot. Smith has been in Kentucky.

Following the shooting Smith ran across the fields and sent back word that he intended to go to New Castle and give himself up then, but he changed his mind. Sorrel was not dangerously hurt and the excitement incident to the shooting soon died out. Both men were from Kentucky.

Jacob D. Gates was in town Wednesday afternoon, making arrangements for a public sale of personal property.

Brooks Builds New Barn. George Brooks, residing north of Charlottesville, has just completed the erection of a new barn to replace the one recently destroyed by lightning. The new barn is 40x48 feet, and is one of the strongest built barns in this section of the county. He carried $600 insurance on he old barn, and although it was somewhat larger than the one just erected the insurance money was not sufficient to pay for the new structure.

C. C. Prather and wife, of Indianapolis, were guests Sunday of Charles Vance and wife, of Spring street. In the afternoon, Oscar Russello stopped, 011 his way from Winnipeg, Canada, to his home in Ohio.

Oats Threshing Time.

Oats threshing was begun in several different communities in Hancock county Monday mornings While the oats are short and the shocks thin on the ground, they aresaid to be well filled. By the close of the week the oats crop will about all be ihreshed.

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lacy went to Bethany Park Monday for/L a two weeks' stay. Iv-v,

Paul Boyd and family left Sunday.? for a week's visit with William Peck..^*'and family, at Muncie.

David H. Bundy and wife, of Jackson township, were in Greenfield Saturday.

Earl Smith, of Chicago., came Saturday morning for a visit with his parents,Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith,

Miss Lila Jones, who has been spending a week here with friendv returned to the M. E. hospital Suaday, where she is a nurse.

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