Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 September 1919 — Page 2
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 , 19ls
LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTE
| that the injury of Mrs. Ratcliff would j probably result fatally, but later it 1 was reported that her injury is not I serious. Saturday afternoon, Leonard Ratcliff husband of the injured woman, came to Greeneastle and swore out a warrant against Perkins charjiing him with assult and battery with intent to kill. Mr. Ratcliff stated that there was no provocation for the assult. IMr. Perkins, he said, was seated across the table from Mr. and Mrs. Ratcliff. He had not spoken to them for a week, the husband said, until something was said about vacating the house. Then, the husband says, Perkins got up and taking a chair struck Mrs. Ratcliff.
POLITIC AL GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON
/^ET a package today. No* lice the flavor—the wholesome taste of Kentucky Burley tobacco. Why do so many “regular men*’ buy Lucky Strike cigarettes? They buy them for the special flavor of the toasted Burley tobacco. There’s the big reason—it’s toasted, and real Burley. Make Lucky Strike your cigarette.
Washington, I). C. Republican leaders in
Sept. fc\—The the House of]
pronounced pro-German bef*. United States entered the
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Representatives are still floundering) ate against the Treat ' n the
the League of Nati Washington, not be eat
tile death of the League, but th" ;
in their endeavor to make seme sort j the League of ., B u 0rs of showing before the country in their) Washington, not because itXraa'^
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Nations
DAUGHTER SUES TO BREAK WILL OF FAIRBANKS
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Alleging that the will of Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice President of the United States was procured by undue influence while he was of unsound mind, Mrs. Adelaide F. Timmons a daughter brought suit yesterday through her attorneys, Hanna k Daily in the Marion County Pribate Court to break the instrument. In t; statement isued with the filing of the suit Mrs. Timmons declares that her father had planned a >000,000 bequest to the city of Indianapolis as a memorial to .his wife, the late Mrs. Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, but that the will provides only $50,000 for such a purpose. Mrs. Timmons said in a statement issued last night that her brothers, Frederick C. Fairbanks and Warren C. Fairbanks, drafted the will after Mr. Fairbanks was so weakened and enfeebled by disease that he was unable to j comprehend the effect of his acts. The total vauluation of the estate in \olved in the suit is more than $8,000,000, a supplemental inventory' filed Friday having disclosed that (Mr. Fairbanks was three-fourths owner of the Indianapolis News, which added $1,500,000 to the schedule filed shortly after his death, as well as an additional amount for the real estate of the News.
promised reduction of war taxes, particularly those affecting the high cost of living. It is true the House has passed a few bills raising the tariff on tungstein ore, pearl buttons, surgical instruments, chemical glass and the like, but even supposing they will reduce the high cost of living, the chances of the Senate considering.
Pennsylvanian* spoke i0 fcitt tr |,/ the “hard and cruel peace" th a / h been forced on Germany. T) n ing from one of the leading of a party that had attempt make political capital by assur.r.et public that President Wilson and tf
. Democrats generally intended W
them for many weeks, or months, is, Gf . rmf . ny K0 without
considered slight. seemed strange to those following
Democratic Representatives are j t i ona ] affair c i osely
frankly amused at the plight of their political opponents particularly those of the “Old Guard” or reactionary type, such as Floor Leader Prank W. Mondell of Wyoming, and Joseph W. Fordney of Michigan, chairman of the committee on ways and means. These leaders announced after the Congressional elections of last November that they would repeal the onerous war taxes as soon as the President gave them the opportunity by calling them in extra session. This was a “followup” of the Republican pre-election
pledges.
The intention of some Republi* senatorial leaders to kill the r Treaty, rather than have the Lr succeed, is becoming more daily. That the plan is cut arid dri is evidenced by the speech of Sen Sherman of Illinois in his home ■ a few days prior to the Knox add: in which he asserted that the T would be killed by the senate forced upon the country as the
of 1920.
Another shinning example of a the-armistice bravery pointed out' Democratic leaders is Rep. William
The entertainment that is being en-1 Rodenburg of East St. Louis,
WOMAN B.VDLt INJURED WHEN STRUCK B^ MAN
Mrs. Leonard Ratcliff, wife of a Clinton township farmer was badly injured ear|y last Friday morning when she was struck on the forehead by a chair wielded by Charley Perkins on who’s fam, Mr. and Mrs. Ratcliff resided, according to reports which reached Greencastle today. It is said that Mr. and Mrs. Ratcliff. who had been keeping house for Mr. Perkins, who is not married, had arranged to leave the Perkins farm,
but that they had not moved as soon
as Mr. Perkins had desired. Reports vary regarding the trouble
but during the breakfast Friday morning trouble started and Perkins,
It is said by some that the attack was unprovoked while other reports are that Mr. Perkins struck the woman when she attempted to throw the coffee pot at him. It is said further
De Pauw University is one of the defendants named in the suit having been bequeathed $25,000 in the will of Mr. Fairbanks.
it is said, struck Mrs. Ratcliff on the I that Mr. Perkins stated that Mr. Rat-
head with a chair. It is said that the woman was unconscious for some time as the result of the blow and that a great gash was cut acrosss her forehead. Dr. IMoore of Clinton Falls attended the injured woman and dressed her injuries. The Ratcliff fam. ily moved out of the Perkins home to the home *f a neighbor during the day Friday.
cliff had drawn his knife and was about to attack him. Following the attack by Mr. Perkins on the woman it is said that Harry McCabe, a neighbor and Perkins had trouble which resulted in a fight between Perkins and McCabe. So far no legal action has been taken against any of those implicated in the trouble. It was first reported
THE DEATH OF CLAY BOWEN OCCURS NEAR INDIANAPOLIS
The death of Clay Bowen, formerly a resident of this city, and a brother of Sam Bowen, who resides on east Seminary street, occured on Sunday near Indianapolis. Mr. Bowen had gone with his son, Millard Bowen, on an automobile trip, and died in the auto, when suddenly stricken with heart disease. Beside his son Millard, he leaves one daughter Iva. The burial was in Indianapolis.
SUGAR SHORTAGE TO END IN 10 DAYS, U. S OFFICIAL
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fbicago Sept. G.—The sugar >hortage which has been felt all over the country during the last eight weeks is practically at an end and normal conditions will be resumed within ten | days, according to an announcement j made here today by Henry H. Rolapp, , chairman of the food administration’s sugar distribution committee. “The governiflent now has 100 boats ng ■ ■■ Mr. | Rolapp said.
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ness of home-baked things.
Wherever home-baking is appreciated, Valier’s Enterprise Flour ia most appreciated. Its quality is so mucA finer than the ordinary flour that the baking is bound to show the difference. If you haven't fated this difference, please do. You’ll never be satisfied again with ordinary baking results.
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Mr. and Mr.-. George White and Mrs. George Gibson have returned trom Indianapolis where they spent the week end with relatives and friend -. They motored through and on their return stopped at Mooresvtlle, where, Sunday they vi. ited Mr. and Mrs. W. F. White. Reese Matson, formerly of this city, '■ut fur the lust two years employed' in the ship yards in Chester, Pa., is -w in Chicago and expects to be in Greencastle to visit his many friends within the next few days.
joyed by the House Democrats is enhanced because of the perpetual Republican assertions that they, and they only, possess any administrative ability or knowledge of how to successfully run the nation economically and beneficially. The fact that the world’s greatest war had just been concluded, and that the clearing away of the debt was bound to take time, meant nothing to them, at least so far as their appeals to the public
were concerned.
The President called the extra session for the middle of May and the Republican House chieftians are still grouping in the dark for light when they are not marking time. With war expenditures of billions that nu;»t be met they discovered that if war taxes were repealed a corresponding amount of revenue must be obtained elsewhere. They turned toward the custom houses but found—what every one knew—that Europe was importing not exporting, and that no matter what the traiff charges the government’s war bills could not be met
that way.
The Republicans seem absolutely lost,” commented one Democratic member of the committee on ways!
who recently introduced a resoluti addressed to the President demandthat the latter forego his tour of country to explain to the people v the League of Nations meant to
world.
Representative Rodenberg has s record that is far from being save it is pointed out Rodenberg voted the McLemore resolution -wami Americans against sailing on ships during the submarine dayspti to America’s entrance into the' For the Cooper amendment forbid’ American merchant ships arming for defense again.-H German submarines; Against the laration of war and AGAINST first war revenue bill. The activities of the German sy pathizers in the United State Sea* have been made plainly ’ y the fa attempt to prevent the confirmatioa Attorney-General Palmer. Seni* Frelinghuysen of New Jersey named by (Mr. Palmer in a state following his almost unanimous firmation by the Senate, as ha' been active in espousing the cause German firms whose property taken over by the present att: general when he was alien
and means, 1 and what is worse for. custodian. Not only was th - 'em*
Paul Lear ha? gone to Decatur, HI., where he will he employed. Elmer Wells of Omaha, Neb., was here Sunday the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wells. He was on his way to Kansas City where he has a position as traveling salesman.
J. T. Christie has returned from | business trip to Lexington, Ky.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
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Notice is hereby given that‘the undersigned has been appointed by the judge of the Circuit Court of Putnam | County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of Andrew J. Owen, late of Putnam County, Ind., deceased. Said estate is supposed to be sol-
vent.
Dated this 28th day of
1919.
GEORGE M. OWEN and STELLA M. JUNKINS, Administrator. Lyon & Peck, Attys. 3t-w-sept.5-12-19
the country, do not seem to be nearer a solution of any of their difficulties than when they first realized what tremendous obstacles they had promised to surmount. Their caucuses art barren of ideas or results, and their addresses on the floor of the House are purely political and Largely at-
tacks on the 'President.
“It seems somewhat incongruous that even a Congressman who was burned in effigy by his constituents because of his obsMuctive war re ard, should attack the President for making a tour to fulfill his promise to the people to explain the Peace Treaty and League of Nations to them. At this time, when it is protested by Republicans that the President should stay here and presumably wait for the Republican majorities to enact some of his recommendations, there are at least 75 Republican members of the House absent from Washington, so many that securing a quorum is becoming more and more difficult. And these criticisms are from the narty that, having accomplished noth-
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and was only deterred by the personal ; ■ I* intervention of the President and the! importance of the program he out-!
lined.”
Another instance of Republican dilatory methods that is being pointed out by the Democrats is the failure to provide for the soldiers, despite the profuse promises made before and ince election. Republican Floor Leader Mondell cannot push his kidnaped soldiers’ farm bill ahead, and in recent party caucus only received four votes in support of it it is asserted. After considering every plan presented the Republicans decided to “pass the buck” and to defer any action until the American Legion had held its meeting in November. It is figured apparently, that the warriors may be able to supply the pertinent ideas that are lacking in the brains of the Republican leaders who have assumed the duty of formulating the big legislation that this Congress is
posed to pass.
"pleasing Germiny,” according to attorney-general, but he was uffi in mentioned and praised for this «» in a statement given out by the ‘
man foreign office recently Attorney-General Palmer
out in his statement that Sei..- rFr. inghuysen \- president of N'-wYs insurance company which w. theos
one attempt to block the liquidation of German insui irre panics in this country. The i t
genera| also asserted t : > i
Frelinghuysen was th- an.' of Congre.-s to appear bef ate committee in 1917 to a conduct in farming the tithe enemy act, and th it hi the committee to hear a v urged that the enemy i’ - panics in the United .‘•'tat'
terefered with.
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Washington, I). C. Sept. 6.—The boldness with which certain Republlican senators and representatives are engaged in “pleasing Germany,” as Attorney-General A. Mitchell Palmer ha s characterized it, ig astonishing official Washington. In several instances the new-found friends of the Hun never before raised their voices in his defense; while in other ctses his American supporters were
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