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REV. MACK BRIBER THE NEW PASTOR

GREENFIELD RURAL ROUTE MAIL CARRIER, WHO RECENTLY ENTERED THE MINISTRY,

APPOINTED TO THE GREENFIELD CHURCH.

The White River conference of the United Brethren church, which closed its annual session at New Castle Sunday, assigned Rev. Mack Crider to the Greenfield church, on Swope street, to succeed Rev. A. D. Smith, pastor for the last year, who will enter school again.

Rev. Crider is known to everyone in Greenfield and a great number of the people of the county. He has been a rural route mail carrier out of Greenfield for many years. He entered the ministry some time ago, supplying at different places and his appointment as pastor of the local church as his first charge gives general satisfaction.

Other appointments of interest here are as follows: Veedersburg, H. W. Robbins Greenfield circuit, F. F. Bray Bargersville, O. F. Lydy Gywnneville, F. L. Dennis University Heights, W. L. Waldo Mohawk, J. B. Smith New Castle, A. B. Arford Pendleton, C. G. McCrocklin.

Several Greenfield people attended Sunday's session of the conference.

Mr. and Mrs. Thompson SnufYin and daughter, Eva, and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Holycross and daughter, Yerna, and W. A. Willis, of North Lewisburg, Ohio, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Hutchinson, have returned home.

Mr. and Mrs. John Keller entertained at Sunday dinner, Mrs. Joseph Readle, of Muncie Mrs. Jesse Magee and daughter, of New Castle Miss Inez Secrest, of Muncie Frank Lynam and Robert Keller, of this city.

IVIrs, Millie Trees and children have returned home from a few days1 visit with friends and relatives in Grant county.

Claud Sleet,h and wife, of Freeport, visited the families of T. H. Eaton and John Andrick Sunday, Mrs. Sleeth remained for a few days' visit.

Mr. and Mrs. Willis G. Sale and Nellie Morlan. of Indianapolis, were quests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. 0. M. Jackson.

Mrs. Sarah J. Perkins, of Whiteland, has been spending several days with her granddaughters, Mrs. L. L. Jeffries, Mrs. Fred Carson and Mrs. Bobbins. ...

tended the home-coming at Little Sugar Creek Sunday.

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•Henry Pentland and family, Harry Shelby and family. Henry Davis and family and Miss Belle Pentland at- Indianapolis and Richmond. There

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Gough called on George Allen Sunday, who is quite sick at his home near Mohawk. a

Clarence Hivnor and family are moving today to Richmond, where their daughter, Lena, will attend school at Earlham College.

Mrs. J. H. Brooks and children went Sunday to spend a week at Paragon, Morgan county, visiting relatives.

Mrs. Robert Walsh and son, Clark, of Salem, Oregon, spent Sunday in this city, the euests of her cousin. Mrs. Charles H. Cook.

Ed Paris, wife and children, of New Castle, came Sunday to spend a week with relatives and friends.

Roy Jeffries and family, of Route i, spent Sunday with Mrs. Priscilla Lane, in Buck Creek township. .:'f

Virgil Jeffries and Miss Gladys West spent Sunday with Noble Coffey and family, on Route 1

Misses Margaret and Leona Rose, of Tndianapolis, have returned home after a week's visit here with W. M. CofTield and family.

Marriage Licenses.

Oather Bell to Elma Teal. John Beeson to Almedia Crosley.

4 Mrs. Anna Middleton spent Sun.day in Indianapolis, the guest of. Mr. f. and Mrs. Sherman Ayers.

Mrs. Rufina White arid Mrs. Narcissa Macy attended the home corn-

New Auto Ambulance.

Pasco Brothers, undertakers, have their new automobile ambulance and service car at home and it is a fine one. It is an ambulance bed built onto their Flanders automobile running gear. The work was done by the Knightstown Buggy Company. The ambulance is commodious, but neat and handy and the machine is a steel gray in color. They received it from the builders Saturday.

D. B. Cooper and wife arrived home Friday night from a two weeks' trip to Dulutli, Minnesota, the Macinac Islands and Detroit, Michigan.

Stricken With Paralysis. John Coflield, one of the best known and oldest carpenters of the city, was stricken with paralysis Monday,morning about 7 o'clock, at his home, corner of Wilson and Fifth streets. Practically his entire body is affected, and his recovery is said to be very doubtful.

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SERVICES HELD

M. S. Decker Preached Sermon at M. E. Church—Splendid Young Peoples' Service.

The last of the series of union services was held at the Bradley Methodist church Sunday night. The church was filled with a splendid crowd, representing all the denominations. Rev. M. S. Decker preached an able sermon to an appreciative audience. The spirit of union manifested in the union services is splendid.

The outlook for the union tabernacle services is fine and the interest manifested is excellent.

The preaching service was preceded by one of the finest young peoples' service held this summer. It was led by Miss Lulu Cline and young people from the various societies participated.

Owned First Automobile. Dr. O. E. Holloway, of Knightstown, who purchased a six-cylinder touring car last week, owned the first automobile purchased by any one between Indianapolis and Richmond, according to the Knightstown Banner, which, in telling of Dr. Hol-low-ay's latest purchase, says:

Since buying his first machine fourteen years ago, lie has owned eight automobiles. The first auto he purchased was a one-cylinder Oldsmobile, bought of Carl Fisher, of Indianapolis. Fisher at that time conducted a salesroom and auto business in the old Cycloramo building, where the interurban station now stands in Market street. The automobile was a wonderful machine at that time. The Oldsmobile owned by Dr. Holloway was the first machine owned by anybody between

was not another automobile at that time in Henry, Rush or Hancock counties. Frank Tritt at that time was in the grocery and buggy business and was feeling his way in the auto line when he assisted Dr. Holloway in buying his first car.

Since that time Tritt has disposed of his other line of business and gone exclusively into the auto business and conducts a garage, corner of Main and Adams streets. Carl Fisher, who was a poor man when he sold that Oldsmobile to Dr. Holloway, is now a millionaire, made through his connection with the auto business and kindred lines.

In the last fourteen years thousands of machines have been sold in this and adjoining counties, and everybody, including farmers who make any pretense of keeping abreast of the times, owns an automobile or two.

Ward Martindale, who 'tb one of Hancock county's men who raises good draft horses, attended the horse show, but did not have any horses on exhibition. He said he had his horses at the New Castle fair, and when he got them' home they were not in good condition.

Misses Edna and Opal Carr, "who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Service and Mr. and Mrs. James Rogers, returned to their home at Bloomington Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Konold, of Winona, are here, the giiests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. David W a 1

Ing basket meeting at Western] of the former's sister, Mrs. Frank Grove Sunday. {Marts.

Clifford Matthews and wife, of New Castle, were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Boyd

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Burk spent Sunday in Indianapolis, the guests

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BIG PER CENT OF CRIMINALS ARE FEEBLE-MINDED—DR. KLEINSCHMIDT TELLS

STORY OF CRIMES AND AND PRISONS TO INSTITUTE.

Thursday morning's session of the institute opened by singing "Holy, Holy, Holy." Mr. Luse, of the Fortville high school, conducted the devotional.

The institute was then favored with a vocal solo by Luther Richman, who sang "Open the Gates of the Temple." As an encore he sang "The Sleigh Song" and "The Little Irish Girl."

Dr. Kleinschmidt's work was along the old and new methods of teaching reading. He gave many amusing readings from a collection of old school books, dating 1709-1759 and 1850. There is quite a difference in the readers of those days and those in use at the present tme.

Miss Matthews, of Purdue University, gave her opening talk on "Domestic Science In the Rural School." Her talk was on the ways and means of presenting this subject to the pupils in the grades. These talks are of great benefit in aiding the teachers to organize and present the work in domestic science.

Thursday Afternoon.

The institute was favored with a song by J. W. Sparks, who sang "The Ivy Green," after which Dr. Kleinschmidt gave his lecture on "The Psychology of Crime." For over an hour and a half he held his audience in rapt attention as he recited to them the many causes of crime, and many personal observations in his work at the Jeffersonville reformatory.

One great factor in the cause of crime is that of birth and environment. For most all criminals are feeble-minded, as is shown by the fact that 59 per cent of the prisoners of the Jeffei^sonville reformatory are of sub-normal development.

In the Elmira, New York, state penitentiary 42 per cent of them are feeble-minded. In the girls' school at Bedford Hill, New York, 37 per cent are feeble-minded. So in summing it up it may well be said the crimes of a nation are committed by its feeble-minded.

He cited one incident of a little fellow with a twisted knee, who, on seeing a neighbor leave her home, went into her house and tore up the telephone box in order to see what made the^ bell ring. He then wrent to the wardrobe and seeing many nice dresses hanging there, he took a silk one to his mother, who was a poor washerwoman. Now this little fellow had been sentenced to one to eight years for petit larceny. Upon examination it was found that the little fellow was so feebleminded that a parole was hastily secured for him.

The school at Jeffersonville is always crowded, as they have an equipment for only 850 boys and there are always from 1,000 to 1,100. Hence it is necessary to parole a large number each year, in order to make room for the new comers.

During the month of May there were on the average two boys a day received at the institution. The yearly average is one and a half boys per day.

During the summer vacation of the courts, the reformatory tries to catch up a little.

Of the 418 boys received in 1913, only 155 had had no church affiliation before being sentenced 64 per per cent left good paying occupations: 30 per cent were idle, but the trouble seemed to be that they did not make proper use of their leisure hours. ,"

Eighty per cent of all the prisoners use tobacco in some form. Fifty-one per cent are confirmed cigarette fiends. One boy even confessed smoking as many as 150 cigarettes in a day.

They are deprived of their tobacco upon entering he prison and this works great hardship, on most of them. One lad nineteen years of age, after begging the officers many times to send him to Michigan City so that he might have his tobacco, upon being refused, even, stabbed and killed a fellow prisoner so that he might be sent to Michigan City for life and thereby enjoy the privilege of using tobacco,

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The prison has a dentist that visits the prison two days in each week. The prisoners began to beg for gold,

5/* ("Will I get any Star for my crown? When at evening tlje sun goeth down.

When I get to my cell. Will tobac meet my smell? Oh! how much Star will I get for my crown?"

The autdience would willingly have sat another hour and half to listen to the fascinating story as only Dr. Kleinschmidt knows how tn tell it.

After a brief intermission, Luther Richman favored the institute with a vocal solo "Invictis." As an encore he sang "On the Shore" and "Young Tom of Devon." Mr. Richman is a musician of worth, also a former Greenfield boy, being the son of ex-county auditor, Charles J. Richman.

Miss Matthews' talk was on domestic science. She gave the following outline and then proceeded to discuss it at length:

Foods. Classification according to nutritive constituents.

I. Organic. 1. Nitrogenous. (1) Proteids. (2) Albuminoids. 2. Non-nitrogenous. (1) Carbohydrates. (2) Fats. II. Inorganic. 1. Mineral matter. 2. Water. Classification according to function in body.

I. Tissue formers. 1. Proteids. 2. Mineral 3. Water. II. Work and hejft producers. 1. Fat. 2. Carbohydrates. 3. Proteids. 4. Albuminoids. III. Regulators. 1. Mineral matter. 2. Water. Mr. Sparks, of the Frankfort high school, then spoke in behalf of the Citizens' League, an organization for the purpose of calling a new constitutional convention for the state of Indiana.

There were many visitors at the institute during the day.

SUNDAY EVENING FIRE

Company Had Run On West Main Street.

The fire department was called to West Main street Sunday evening about 8 o'clock by a fire alarm from the home of Melba C. Abbott. They missed the place, however, because of some confusion in the location given and went on to Harrison street.

The fire at the Abbott home started in a closet, it is thought, from an oil mop. Considerable clothing was burned and damaged. The loss was covered in the Ora Myers agency. A gr^at number of people were attracted to the scene, but the fire was out before many arrived.

Liberal Premiums—Good Horses. A horse raiser in commenting on the horse show said that a person would naturally think that a liberal premium would attract a larger number of horses, but it occurred to him that while it might attract better horses it might not attract so many. He said here were many men who would think that a liberal premium would attract such good horses, that a moderately good horse would not have a show of winning. This may explain why there were not more horses at the Greenfield show.

Elder R. W. Thompson and family and W. P. Denney and granddaughter, Angie Leary, have returned home from Edinburg, where they attended the home-coming of the Savin family. It was largely attended, relatives being present from Kansas. Illinois, Iowa and Indiana.

Ed and Walter Eastes, prosperous farmers of Buck Creek township, each purchased a touring car of W. W. Dobbins, of Mohawk, and drove them home Wednesday. Cars are becoming more common among farmers than buggies. By their use the farmers of different and distant communities are brought into close touch with each other and a neighbor may live from 25 to 100 miles away. The automobile is certainly a useful machine to the farmer. -til

Mr. and Mrs. Grover Gates, son Robert, and Mrs. Mary Bourne will spend a few days visiting in Grant county, and from there they will go to La Fountaine, Wabash county, to

crowns and in many cases it was (attend the Baptist association beallowed. Often these crowns would fore returning home. disappear and it was found that the men were prying them off and

"pooling" fhem and when chancel^,, city

offered, trading them to some out-,Eden, and Merrill Ball and wite, of surer for tdbaccq. |Rushville, spent Sunday at Anderyoung m»n, who evidently »on with Earl Barkshila.'

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CARNIVAL IS GONE STREETS CLEANED

Quiet Reigns Everywhere This Week, After Noise, Crowds and Confusion of Carnival

Week.

Carnival week is over and the city is taking on its normal appearance again. A greater part of the tents and stands were taken down Saturday night. Early Sunday morning a force of hands were at work sweeping the streets and removing the great accumulation of rubbish and dirt and a few hours' work made quite a change for the better in the general appearance of things,

While big crowds attended the carnival and enjoyed the noise and confusion, it seemed, the majority are glad to return to quiet and restfulness and the regular routine of business. By noon Monday, the streets again looked clean and open and things had assumed their normal condition.

It is said that the two carnival companies have combined for the future, except the merry-go-round and the Ferris wheel on State street, which went in a different direction. On account of the bad weather, the carnivals probably did not make any very large amount in Greenfield.

MUM NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST

The farmers who have no hay, and there are an unusually large number of them, are still expecting to cut quite a large amount of fodder.

Some hog raisers have begun to feed the green corn to hogs. They do not have any old corn and the price of hogs is such as to tempt them to rush them for the market.

Many farrtiers who thought the young clover, which was sown last spring, was dead from the drought, are pleased with the way it is showing up since the rains.

People, as usual, are surprised to see how much good the rain is doing the badly damaged corn crop. The crop will be far short of an average crop, but it is being greatly benefitted by the rains.

The improved conditions of the pastures are very welcome to the farmers who are short of feed for their stock. Many famers have been feeding for a month or six weeks like they do in winter.

The sorghum crop, which has suffered less than any other crop from the past dry weather, will soon be ready for the mill. The sorghum factories are already getting ready for business.

liiis is a good time to have a thought about the prevention of cholera among the hogs. The old saying: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," is very appropriate in regard to hog cholera. The farmer who suffers from hog cholera this year will find the loss runs into dollars very rapidly at the present price.

Farmers who had in mind filling their silos this week did not do so Those who intended to fill next week have put it off a week later. Some say that they will not fill for two or three weeks. The fact is, the corn is very gr'een and is still developing. It is probable that farmers will not fill their silos until they, have to do so to avoid frost. There will be a rush when the corn is ready for the silo.

Mrs. Evaline Denney, of Kansas, who has been spending the summer with relatives and friends in this county, was the guest this week of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Albea, in Vernon township. Mrs. Denney is the widow of the late Fonzie Denney. They went to Kansas from this county about thirty years ago. She is a sister of Mrs. Charley Hiday, of Vernon township.

Carnival Queen Contest. The carnival queen contest closed Saturday evening. Miss Helen Loy won the first prize, a diamond ripg, having 6,378 votes. Miss Naomi Tap'scflott won the second prize, a g(^ld watch, having 1,389. votesv

ilaVry Henricks and wife and Miss Delbrook, of tndianapolis, spent Saturday night and Sunday with

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SOME OLD-TIME TEACHERS

Several WcII-Known Residents of Hancock County Taught.

Talking about old-time school teachers, William M. Lewis, proprietor of the Lewis book store, was a teacher in Hancock county for nineteen yi-ars. He and William A. Wood, of Brandywine township, took their first examination for teaching in Hancock county in the fall ot 1863, and both taught the following winter. Both were subsequently elected to public office in Hancock county. Mr. Lewis was elected sheriff and Mr. Wood clerk. When they began teaching, the late Capt. Lee O. Harris, A. V. B. Sample, Calvin Foley, Richard Frost, John H. Binford, James Sample, William and Lafayette Bussell, were teachers—also Bruce Smith, William Elsbury and Cicero Hamilton.

TAXPAYERS FILE INJUNCTION SUIT

Again Center Township Trustee and Advisory Board, Enjoining Them From Issuing and

Sellin School House Bonds.

Caleb W. Moncrief, Horace F. Wickard, Joshua J. Pratt and more than thirty other taxpayers in Center township, have field suit against Abram W. Frost, trustee of this township, and Alpheus Van Cleve, Marion E. Dobbins and Floyd Hutchison, the township advisory board. The plaintiffs ask for an injunction enjoining the defendants from issuing and selling bonds in the amount of $47,000, for the purpose of building a school house in school District 13, immediately north of Maxwell.

The plaintiffs allege as a reason for demanding the injunction, that the defendants in the record of their proceedings gave as a reason for the selecting of a new location for a school house and the erection of a new school house thereon were that the old site had been condemned by the state board of health and by the county board of health because the old site was within 500 feet of a steam railroad and within 500 feet of a livery stable used for breeding purposes. That a new site was selected and advertisements for bids to build a school house thereon were published, that the defendants, when the time came to let the contract, let the contract to build the new school house on the old site that the old site is within 500 feet of a steam railroad and a livery barn used for breeding purposes, and therefore it is unlawful to erect a school house on it.

A further reason given for the injunction is that the proposed school building is too large and too expensive for the very small number of pupils of school age in the district that the location of the school house is at the north edge of the township and difficult of access and that the defendants are guilty of an abuse of discretion in spending such a large sum of money as $47,000.00 on the building under such circumstances.

Another reason given is that if the bonds are issued and sold as advertised, that the large indebtedness created will make it impossible for the township to borrow other money for the building and repair of school houses in other parts of the township.

The complaint states that the suit is brought on behalf of the plaintiffs and all other taxpayers in Center township. William A. Hough and Samuel J. Offutt are attorneys for the plaintiffs.

Bonds Did Not Sell.

The $47,000 worth of Center township school house bonds, which were advertised for sale, Saturday at 10 o'clock, did not sell. There were two bids by the Fletcher American! National Bank and the J. F. Wilde & Company. The bonds are of $3,000 denomination, 15 years, 4% per cent." The Fl-etcher American National Bank offered par on condition that| $500 was allowed them for various expenses and the denomination: made $500- Wilde & Co. offered par* and interest tf) date). Both bids were rejected by the trustee and advisory board and the bonds will bel readvertised. '&

Gordon Smith and family have moved from the corner of Fourth and Wilson .streets to the L. Griffin property, on the corner of Fourth and Noble streets.

Mrs. J. L. Cummins and son, ofAnderson, and Mrs. Lauriuda Eastes, of Mt. Comfort, spent Thursday and Friday with Mr. and Mrs. John:? Turk.

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