Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 May 1914 — Page 6

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FRIDAY, MAY 8.

FUME STUDENTS HOLD-UP MAN SUFFRAGE FORCES SIS ARCTIC SEA IN HORTICULTURE! RUGS A BUT CELEBRATE TODAY, M A MLEUT

TO VISIT PUTNAM

CLASS IN ENTOMOLOGY AND HORTK'l LTURE OF LAFAYETTE SCHOOL, TOGETHER WITH HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT WILL BE IN GREENCASTLE MONDAY MORNING, MAY II—WILL SPEND SEVERAL HOURS HERE.

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PALL CHERRY. SON OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN CHERRY. HELD UP ON RIG FOUR OVER-HEAD BRIDGE, AT 10:i0 O’CLOCK SATURDAY NIGHT—GOT ONLY $1.2.-)—MAN WORE A MASK AND LEVELED REVOLVER AT THE LAD.

DePAUW FRANCHISE LEAGUE. FIFTY STRONG, JOINS WITH THE GREEN( ASTLE WOMEN IN, BIG DEMONSTRATION IN THE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM AT NOON SATURDAY—LI NCHEON AND SPEECHES BY LEADERS.

Master of the Transit and Owners of the Anna 0!<?a Escape Winter in ice

WILL VISIT LOCAL ORCHURO OFFICEriS MAKE A SEARCH

Twenty-seven students in Entomology and Horticulture of Purdue University, together with Prof. W'oodbury, Prof. Bayle and Prof. Throop, will come to Greencastle on Monday morning, May 11, to visit the local orchards. The party will arrive here over the Morion at 8:25 in the morning and will remain until 2:35 o’clock in the afternoon. Will Wetz, one of the local enthusiastic fruit growers, has been in correspondence with the Purdue University officials and 1 arranging to meet the train with ai tomobiles and take them to the several orchards near Greencastle. The trip is being taken by the professors and the class in order that the students may get some practical experience. The class will work in the orchards and will endeavor to give any advise possible to the orchard owners. Especially will the students examine the orchards to determine disease or absence of disease among the trees. The character of the soil and its adaptability to fruit growing also will be examined. Mr. Wetz is arranging the reception of the visitors and will secure automobiles to take them to the orchards. The townspeople are invited to assist Mr. Wetz by offering the use of their machines. From Greencastle the party will go to Paoli to examine the great orchards of Joe Burton, one of the state’s most prominent horticulturists. —

THIRTY-FIVE CARS ENTERED IN THE 300-MILE RACE. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 30.— With the closing of entries for the next Indianapolis five-hundred-mile race hut a few hours away, Friday midnight, May 1, being the extreme limit of grace, thirty-five cars are enrolled to start the contest. Two more entries were received by the speedway today, a Braender Bull Dog, to be piloted by Billy Chandler, Ralph Mulford’s former mechanician, and a Pope Bullet, handled by Mortimer Roberts, the New York millionaire sportsman. At least five more are expected, bringing the total of contestants up to forty.

CRAW FORDS VILLE MAN FATHER OF PEN \L BILL

Information that the state penal farm has finally become a reality was good news to Representative S. E. Voris of this ciay. The land which will be farmed by state prisoners has been purchased near Greencastle for less than the state appropriated for the tract. Representative Voris introduced the bill providing for the penal farm in tin I1U3 legislature and fought valienl!j for it until he won. When the bill was first talked of, Mr. Voris met discouragement on every hand any many thought he would never get it passed. Putting on his fighting clothes and getting down to business, Mr. Voris began his work in earnest. Some of the opponents of the bill iaid it was too expensive a project. To this complaint it was argued that the state was not spending money that would be sunk but that the farm would be an investment for the state. The bill came up for a vote in the house and Mr. Voris got it through with flying colors. When it came to the senate things were not looking bright. The vote was 24 against its passage and 22 for it. The opposition lacked two votes, however, of having a constitutional majority, and so, after some more strenuous fighting, the measure came up again. This time it was adopted by a handsome majority. The governor then appointed a commission which was to select a site for the farm and make the purchase. Greencastle has been fighting for the farm and won. The amount appropriated for the site was $60,000, but the commission spent less than this sum. Craw fordsville Review.

While on hi" way home from town Saturday night about 10:30 o’clock, Paul Cherry, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cherry, who reside northwest of the city, was accosted by a masked robber at the over-head bridge over the old Big Four tracks on the Rockville road am* relieved of his money. The robber took $1.25 from the lad’s pockets. The lad was stopped at the north end of the bridge with an order to throw up his hands. A revolver was leveled at the lad. who threw up his hands. The robber searched through his pockets and took what money he could find. He then ordered the lad to “beat it.” The boy ran to his home only a short distance away and told his father of the robbery. Mr. Cherry summoned the police as soon as he was informed of the robbery. Sheriff Boes, Night Policeman Carlos Watson, Mr. Cherry and son, Clarence, searched the vicinity of the bridge but were unable to find the robbers. Young Cherry gave a good description of the robber. He said that another man was standing waiting near the scene when his pockets were rifled. The robber was a tall dark complexioned man; wore a dark suit of clothes and a black slouch hat. He was unable to give a description of the other man. Roy Ragier, a boy residing with Mr. and Mrs. Will Ashworth in the same neighoorhood, crossed the bridge a few minutes before the Cherry lad and the hold-up men flashed a light from a dark lantern in his face, as he passed the north end of the bridge, but they did not stop him. A robber attempted to hold up Jesse McAnally at the same place several years ago hut was unsuccessful in his attempt. McAnally carried a revolver and when accosted by the masked man, hit the man in the face with a milk bucket and shot at him. The robber, taken by surprise, ran and escaped.

Saturday was Women’s day in Greencastle. In accord with the movement of the National Woman’s Franchise i ^ague, which is celebrating Woman’s inde-penden.-e Day throughout the United States, the DePauw Franchise League, fifty strong, and the Greencastle Franchise League, with membership of about the same, joined together in holding their demonstration. The Woman’s Franchise Jubilee, as the day’s event was known, occurred in the Gymnasium building of DePauw University beginning at 12 i o’clock noon and lasting until shortly i after 1 o’clock. The event was featured by a cafeteria luncheon, served by the women, followed by speeches by several of the prominent suffragists of the two organizations. More than 150 attended the luncheon and the meeting which followed. Mrs. C. C. North, president of the DePauw Franchise League, presided at the meeting. The speakers of the meeting were Mrs. Frank Donner, Miss Selma Schneider, Miss Katharine Kingsley, Eldie Troxell and Prof. C. C. North. The latter was prominent in the organization of the DePauw Franchise League. During the meeting suffrage songs were sung by the entire assemblage. A feature of the day’s events was a suffrage extra of the DePauw Daily, published by the members of the DePauw Franchise League. Miss Constance Robbins, editor-in-chief, and Miss Lulu Bon Durant, business manager, and Miss Elma Hawthorne, assistant business manager, were most active in the publication of the extra. The paper was published at 10 o’clock this morning and was distributed to the university faculty members and students after the morning chapel exercises.

MS VISIT SEVERAL STURES

STUDENT BORROWS A RIG; JOY RIDE ENDS VBRl PTLY

Entertaining a girl friend Sunday evening a prominent student of the university, whose name will not be published, stole a horse and buggy owned by Russell Farmer, who resides southeast of this city, and enjoyed the evening with a pleasant drive about the city. The ride ended rather abruptly when he returned with the rig to hitch it to a hitch post near the Crawford house on south Indiana street, and found Mr. Farmer in waiting for the young man. The buggy was taken from the hitch post at the Crawford house about 8 o’clock and was returned at 10 o’clock. Friends of Mr. Farmer saw the couple get in the rig and drive away and notified him of the theft. Policeman Jack Maloney and Carl Watson were called to the scene after the rig had been returned. After the student had received a good lecture and warning not to attempt anything of the kind again he was released. The young man was badly scared as a result of the episode. Several rigs have been taken bystudents of the university, having no authority to use them, and the practice has become common. The rig owned by Mr. Farmer has been unhitched and driven by some person on three different occasions. Both the young man and the young lady accompanying him on the ride Sundayevening are prominent and popular students and the matter was dropped in order that they would not be exposed and disgraced by their action.

The Central Trust Co., has installed new flash light sign in one of the front windows of its hanking room.

Cemetery Report. Interment at Forest Hill cemeteryin April, 1914: Annabel Bittle, city, age —years, still born. Corena Holhert, city, age 40 years, cancer. Martin Piffer, city, age 23 years, typhoid fever. Ellen K. Grady, city, age 80 years, pneumonia. Mary A. Sherfey, Indianapolis, age TO years, lobular pneumonia. James Daggy, Superintendent.

The business houses of the city were visited in general Friday night by robbers. The W. P. Sackett Grocery on the east side of the square was entered and the thieves helped themselves to a large quantity of lard and other articles in the grocery line. The G. W. Grubb Hardware store on Jackson street was broken into and 100 pennies were taken from the cash drawer. The thieves probably entered the Grubb Hardware store and secured tools with which to make entrances to the other places of business. A window in the rear of the basement in the building was “jimmed” and the robber entered the store room through a trap door in the floor. Nothing only the small amount of change in the cash drawer was taken but is possible that articles were taken from the stock that were not missed. The visitors at the Sackett store made an entrance to the grocerythrough a transom over the door in the rear of building. The only things missing from the stock was a tub of lard and several other grocery articles. As y-et the local police have found no clews that would lead to the arrest of the thief or hand of thieves working Friday night.

It i< reported here today that Harry Mundy and his son, of Cloverdale, and William Dorsett and son of near Belle Union, had a bloody battle in Cloverdale Saturday night The two boys, it is said, had had some trouble, and their fathers took up the fight. Mr. Mundy was cut across the arm, his son stabbed in the back, while Mr. Dorsett was hit in the face with a brick, according to the reports. So far no affidavits have been filed with the prosecuting attorney as the result of the fight. None of the men were seriously injured.

Miss Cletis Williamson has resigned her position at the Allen Bros. Dry Goods store. I-orest Lewis, of Indianapolis, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F-'i a Lewis, who reside on north Indian;. street.

RACKLANO REACHES SEAT TIE

PETITION TO CONGRESS

Skipper of Trading Schooner Tells of Wreck and Trip From Point Carrow to Kotzebue Bringing With Them $10,000 Worth cf Light Furs. Seattle, Wash. ('apt. John Backlaud, master and owner of the Seattle trading schooner Transit, which was wrecked five miles southwest of Point Harrow on August 28. reached Seattle from Nome. He was a passenger on the steamship Victoria. “14 was the most remarkable summer the Arctic has seen for many yest-s,” said (’apt. Back land in explaining the beaching of his vessel following the crushing of her stem in a great ice floe. “During August there was snow, ice, frost t and westerly winds wjiich carried the ice shoreward, imprisoning not only the Transit, but the power schooners Polar Bear. Anna Olga and North

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"The easterly winds, which in former years have occurred in August and early September, moving the Ice off shore, did not put in an appearance, and great fields of bergs hemmed ns in on all sides. “As we were leaving Point Harrow." explained (’tpt. Baekland. "tho regular northeasterly wind, contrary to all my former experience, shifted to the northwest, bringing with tt a great ice pack. The bergs came upon us. crushing the Transit’s stem. We shifted the cargo, which raised her bow a bit. but she was leading so that we were forced to head her for the beach." The desire of Oapt. Baekland to prevent the marooning of three of his crew at lonely Point Barrow was indirectly responsible for the wreck. They had gone ashore on a littl» sightseeing expedition, delaying the departure of the Transit. If the schooner had put to sea three hours before she would be safe in Seattle today, according to her master and owner. After the wreck of the Transit (’apt. Baekland. with Nel Sonju and George Telen. of Poulsbo, and Geo Goto, the Transit’s cook, made the trip in a whaleboat manned by two natives to Kotzebue, a distance of 500 miles. They took with them $10,000 worth of light furs, which were brought to Seattle yesterday on the Victoria. The party encountered heavy weather at Cape Liscum, and were forced to put In at a native Igloo, where they were marooned five days At Kotzebue ('apt. Baekland took the Corwin to Nome. The polar hepr nkins. walrus hides, whalebone and ivory which was aboard the Transit was left at Point Barrow The crew of the Transit was placed in charge of representatives of the Cape Smyth Whaling and Trading Company, who will care for them during the winter if they fail to get out. The wrecked schooner was left in charge of Chief Mate O. Hansen and Anton Edwardson. donkey man. ( apt Baekland said that there Is a 'possibility of floiting the Transit •hen the ice goes out in the spring. The vessel is valued at $12.00(1, and was not insured. While ('apt. Baekland was at Point Barrow three whaleboats manned by natives arrived from the mouth of 'he Canning River and Flaxman Island from a trading cruise They reported that the schooners Polar Bear. North Star and Anna Olga were fast in the ice and unable to follow the mull leads through which they passed. All three vessels were wHI provisioned and able to spend the winter in the Arctic without great hardship, according to the native traders. LEFT TRAIL OF SILK. Hundred! Join in Chase of Two Burglars. New York—Hundreds of early workers on Seventh avenue stopped, looked and joined in the chase of two burglars, who. leaving a trail of silk stockings and handkerchiefs behind them, escaped The men were seen by a watchman as they left the store of the Lenox Silk Works, at 151 West Thirty-fourth street. He called a policeman and the pursuit began The two men carried a hamper and two packages from which silk stockings fell. First they dropped the packages and then the hamper. About $500 worth of loot was recovered A good many wives and sweethearts will get belated Christmas presents tonight, for It was noticeable that not many of the shim mery pairs of stockings that hit the pavement were allowed to lie long, nor were they recovered by the Lenox Silk Works Not*'-s, too. long unaccustomed to silk or never acquainted with It, will feel Its enfolding softness today and If any of the thief chasers caught cold they will have the consolation —many of them—of aristocratic con dolence for their noses.

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❖ •> I’ARKK CO. HORSE TAKES ❖ > \N ANNUAL VACATION. •> •> <• •> •> <• •> •> •> •> ❖ ROCKVILLE, Ind., April 28. ( hue. Appleby, of Florida township, has a horse which for three years consecutively has been lost for about two weeks each year in early spring, and this peculiar fact caused him to notice the animal’s action this year. The horse jumped the fence about two weeks ago and was traced to Sullivan, Vincennes, Brazil, and Carbon, and has just returned home. Mr. Appleby cannot account for the animal’s wanderlust at this time of the year, except for the fact that when she was in foal the horse’s mother traveled over almost the same ground as the animal has just covered. Death of Chris Bronn. Early on the morning of May 1, 1914, Mr. Chris Brown, one of the old and well-known residents of Madison township, died at his late home, of cancer of the liver, in the 75th year of his age. Mr. Brown had been ill for about two years, hut was up and about until a few days before his death. The deceased was greatly respected by his neighbors and he had a host of friends who mourn his demise. He leaves surviving a wife. Funeral on Sunday, and huriai in Forest Hill cemetery, this city. MANHATTAN. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Bennett, who has been seriously sick, with brain and spinal trouble for the past three weeks, is slowly improving. Dorotha and Helen Lewis visited May and Ethel Roberts last Sunday. Grandma Gardner is quite sick. The members of the Christian church had an official meeting Monday evening and decided to discontinue the preaching service until further notice. The late freeze does not seem to have injured the fruit in this section. The farmers are plowing for corn. Mrs. Sarah Hutcheson, of Brazil is visiting her many friend** here. A tine dog belonging to Glenn Hod--.hiro was poisoned by some malicious person last week. o Hill Music Store Sold. The music store operated by J. F. Hill of this city for many years was sold to Gilbert Knetzer of Kilmore today. Mr. Knetner took charge of the store today. Mr. Hill has been in business for 43 years and is one of the best known business men in the city. He will retire from business. Mr. Knetzer is a well-known young man of Marion township and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Knetzer, who reside south of Filmore Joseph Baker returned home from Coffeeville, Kas., today after spending several weeks with his cousin, William Lape, of that city.

THE AR8UIB WITHIN 2 S'S

E. E. WATTS, Ol I’It INC WATER WORKS IM'KRtJ ASSISTED GREK\( ASTU| IN ITS FIGHT (GAINST.i CREASE OF RATES, U TODA> FINISHING T[-| WORK.

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K. E. Watt-, of I’ •' v • the water works expert, whot the city of Greenca-Mr 1 its‘tj fore the Public Utilities Ca to prevent an increase in watt here, was in Greencastle today J ish up his work. Mr. Watts t GreencMtle fron aiapoliij he informally visited the col members. Mr. Watts belie* 1 - that the! of the arguments ir he rasel tiling of the brief 1 <) called within two weeks, arguments and thn eadtre 1 brief the Utilities < ntniad vender their dcci-1 ■ mil( Mr. Watts has completed I mate of the value of the piul blue prints ehowing s' "xartl tion of all of tlv iperty 1 Water Works Company Tai$| value , of the land a- estiffl Ferd Lucas and ( h y Sidt this town, he place- the valutl plant at $109,000. Tin- deti mate has been filed with 9»| mission by Mr. WattGreenrustle i- ' ,i ' J state that has appeared ittttf Utilities Commis-i'M ief* a case, according has been connected with nut tried before it. Many cases I tiled but in all "' | and cities were asking a redtK rates. In the Greencastle Water Works Company a-■'I crease in rates. Mr Watts is J pleased by the showing Greencastle in the .> “I ’pinion that the water rate I not be increased.

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j Enterprise Flow Wins Again :i. Another great record made at the W I Haute Fair. The PRIZE LOAF of BREAD. :: PRIZE ROLLS. Fourteen first P r I Cakes. Six Special first prizes. A toti i of 22 first prizes out of 26 offered ^ BY ENTERPRISE FLOUR ••• (Last year won 12 out of I 7)