Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 November 1920 — Page 6

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MICH UISCORI) IN HANKS OF RKF*l IILH \NS

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind,. November Republican leaders are looking ipprehensively toward the coniine of the Legislature, with a fear that the iutri majority they have in both musos may lead to fatal discord, fhtn are none too sanguine that the Republicans can Iv held in line and with the growing break between Gov. moi-Klect McCray and Governor Goodrich many profess to see trouble brewing Kver since McCray announced that he will call for a new deal on the State Board of Tax Commissioners old his advocacy of the repeal of the irimary !aw< there have been indicat* ons that Governor Goodrich would ippose his plans. Many political ob- - M'xcrs foresee a struggle in the Log'lature between the two men —Mc('ra> on the one side attempting io nut through his own prog-am and Goodrich on the other bent on saving !> ' • dation enacted during his own regime. Although Goodrich will he out of otfiee his power still will be great. > ■nong the holdover assemblymen who -opp irted him in the th"ee Goodrich It is even reported now ’.hat the governor will postpone his f tp to Russia until after the Legisttire adjourns in order that he may r •tnain here and direct the forces that "ill resist the attempt to emas* ■date his pet legislative measures. WcC -ay undoubtedly will insist that ■i speaker in harmony with his progr >m be named. although so f ir hr has given no intimation of his mice. .1 D. Miltenberger of Mun. ie who has announced his candidacy »i the gavel is considered to be a Goodrich man and for that reason it ' expected that considerable opposit* on w ill develop to him McCray’s choice for speaker was fttto G. Fifielil of ( -own Point, hut he accepted a place on the Legislatire \isiting committee and probably "ill he chairman of the Ways and Means Committee It is doubtful if he Governor-Klect will espouse the andidtey of .1. Glenn Harris of Gary iccausp of the latter’s residence in the Tenth McCray’s home district. The election of speakers holds an 'lenient of factional division aceordng to many observes hut there is , growing belief that the McCray man will be selected. McCray’s nends are anxious to see a strong • peaker chosen, because they feel that much depends on the selection if •actional differences are to be kept lown and the McCray program put hrough. In thine onnection Henry Vbams of Marion county is frequent, y mentioned. The attempt to repeal the primary aw is likely to load to another div* sion of sentiment. Already Governor Goodrich has shown his unwilling* ,ess to see this measure stricken rom the hooks and many believe he • ill rally his friends in an attempt to 'lire it at the forthcoming session The tense situation over the per»nnel of the State Board of Tax • ’ommissioners hold another element ,f danger. McCray opposed to the ,'-appointment of Philip Zoercher to he board and has announce,) that he will seek to strip the commission of ill Goodrich influences. If Zoercher md Fred A Sims, the other Goodrich ippointee, elect to remain in office it s probable McCray would have to isk the legislature for a special net it order to oust it. A manouver of this sort woul,) he hound to lead to trouble and would 'ring about a quick lining up of the McCray and Goodrich adherents on >pposite sides of the question. One of the paramount issues of the -cjssion, of course will be the much discussed tax law McCray has an. nouneed that he will recommend , hanges in the statute while Good* ich takes the position that the law s sufficient as it stands Goodrich supporters contend that the tax law was an issue i n the campaign and that is was ratified by 168,000 voters md therefore should he allowed to stnnd as it is. McCray’s friends agree that it was in issue and point out that McCray an 10,000 votes behind Harding due ■ hey claim to people scratching boause of the tax law. They assert hnt this difference in votes is an inication that thousands of people '•.-e>-e opposed to the law as it is at "recent

McCray if he elects to accept the issue will find strong support a. mong the friends of Senator Watson, who arc already planning to win control of the Republican state organization. The governor-elect and the senator have been firm political allies ever since the primary campaign and as both arc opposed to Goodrich it is held certain they will join forces in the event it became necessary

I \KGESHORTAGE IN THE TOTAL VOTE The total vote cast m me state at the recent election is far short of the total registration and it is expected that the same condition is true in other states. The election figures, however, fail to reflect the actual number who did not go to the polls to register their preference for party candidates In this county and it is evidently true in other counties of the state and else where throughout the country many faulty ballots were cast which reduced the total vote It has been reported that as high as eighteen blank ballots were cast in one precinct in this county In any case the voter mark - c,) only one or two candidates on the ballot and of course if those were not for the head of the ticket they would not count in the totol vote. The vote in Clay county is nearly 11,00 short but probably nearly a half of this resulted from the casting of faulty ballots. Parke county reports a shortage of 1.048 in its total vote and Putnam county a shortage of about 790 votes. —Brazil Times.

ASSESSMENTS FOR YEAR 1!)20

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The County Auditor has compiled a table of assessments and corporations for 1020, and the tax rate in each township an,/ corporation. The tabic is as follows: Townships Assessed Rate per

and towns

Valuation

$100

Jackson

. $2,915 t 950

$186

Franklin

. .3,708,710

1.94

Roachdale Town

... 973,640

2.34

Russell

.. 2,735.950

1.77

Ru.-ellville town

518 550

2 44

Clinton

1,663,085

2 13

Monroe

. . 2 790.955

1 90

Bainbridge town

405,145

2.68

Floyd

2 194,045

1.94

Marion

4,188,565

1.6*

Greencastle ....

. 6,141.435

1.55

Greencastle City

4.565 645

2 49

Madison

.. 1,817,940

1 61

Washington . . . .

.. 3.076 795

1.85

Warren

. 1,579,035

1.80

Jefferson

.. 1 657,300

1.97

('loverdale

2/141.045

2.78

Cloverdale town

716.210

3.24

Mill Creek

.. 1,012 S50

1 98

Totals

44,802,850

DEATH OK MRS SARAH DE YORE

ODO RS ON FRIDAV MORNING The death of Mrs, Sarah A. DeVore age 82 ( occurred Friday morning at near 6 o’clock at the home of her daughter^ Mr^. .loe Lane near Gosport. Death was due to heart trou-

ble.

The funeral was held Sunday morning at II o’clock at the Hudson Hill church and burial was in the Hudson Hill cemetery. The deceased is survived by six children, five daughters and ere son The children are Emory G DeVore of Cataract, Mrs. Nora Lane of Gosport, Mrs, Cora Dorsett of Gloverdale, M-s. Hattie Gorham ‘ Gloverdale, Mrs, .loe Hamond of Greencnstle and Mrs. Maude Mugg of Quincy,

GAS PROVES MOST DESTRUCTIVE WEAPON Washington, Nov. 18 — More than thirty one per cent of all American soldiers admitted to the hospitals o\er seas during the world war were gassed, according to a statement made public today by the chemical warfare service. Excluding the marines « n d sailors, the total American soldiers gassed was 70,552, of whom 1,221 died and 2,836, or 1.04 per cent were discharged as having som,- disability form gassing.

ARMENIANS REJECT TURKISH ULTIMATUM ■ O " ■ C.instantipople, Nov, 18.—Armenia has rejected the ultimatum recently presented bv the Turkis’i nationalists demanding that the Armenians establish a soviet goverment under Turkish protection. The Americans declared that the acceptance of the conditions would be equivelant to the loss of Armenia's sovereign rights.

BLADE QUICKER THAN PISTOL

TIPTON WINS FROM G. H S. BY 7 POINTS

By a score of 22 to 16 the Tipton High School basket ball team defeated the Greenca $ tle Quintet in a fast and interesting game played Friday right on the High School Gymnasium floor.

Expert Gunmen Meet More Than Tl.-;ir Match in the Knife Thiowere cf the Argentine. The danger zone encircling a gauebo (onwho." of the Argentine) with his knife In hi* hand is by no means Ihn-Iti-d to the circle he sweeps with bis extended arm. I am not sure just how far il does go, nor have I the least desire to find out. I beard, however, n ornefc revolver shot, a timn who could blot out the spots on a ten of spades at a tloi.cn paces, say that he would be extremely reluctant to take his chance at a drnw-and-let-go with a gniicho ui any distance under 20

yards.

An iUumiuntive ease in point came to nij attention in Buenos Aires. As a class tin* American agricultural niacliinezy experts sent to Argentina are ns handy with siistiooiers as any 1 have ever met. The> are mostly westerners, have used revolvers from their childhood, and their arms, from which they never separate themselves for a moment while in enrapo, are always of the best and latest pattern. Not once or twice, but on dozens of occasions, have I seen one or another of these men with bis Golfs or Mauser "automatic,” after a preliminary shot or two to get Ihe range blow over a rabbit running at full speed across the painpa. This is good shooting, as will he appreciated by anyone who has had experience with the revolver. Vet the case I have in mind Is that of a thrashing machine expert from Texas—a crack shot—who had trouble with his Argentine maipiinis'a. had an even break on a draw at or 30 feet, and was retired from action with a knife through his shoulder be fore his revolver was clear of its bolster.—Lewis It. Freeman in Hie Cornhill Magazim .

| OBITUARY

Eliza J Blackerby was born August 1st. 1839, in Berlin, Ky. and died November. 9th 1920. in Greencastlc, Indiana, at the age of 81 years, 3 months and 8 days. She was the daughter of An n and William Black, erby, and was one of a family of elev- | en children and the only girl that. grew to womanhood in this family I with nine boys, and at the time of

WONDERS OF HUMAN BODY More Complex and in Greater Har. moiy Thru Any Manufacturing

Plant Possible to Imagine.

\Yc engineers are spl in forget that tbe Inn ;iu body is liie uiosi wonderful work of engineering in the world. As M plaiit il i- more complex Ilian I be Inrgcst works in existence, John II. Van Deventer writes in Industrial Manageuionf. Take the digestive iract. Ihe lymphalic system, the framework

motors, the co-ordinating functions performed by the liver, kidneys tmil other internal orgatis. And to go a step further, take the sensory departments. Ilow about the wonderful optical plant in which colored moving pictures nr** instantaneously laUeu and developed': Ilow about tie* phonographic department where the sound vibrations are received, recorded and I reproduced'' And the sense of lotich so delicate tbnl Ihe fingers can be trained to feel Hat spots on a sti*el ball which are not app/trent to the eye? Think of the thousands of functions performed simultaneously, the routine ones iiiiloiuaUcnlly and those requiring judgment being eared for at the game time through other channels. Von will agree with me surely that the body contains the most elaborate organizations ever installed In any plant; that Its component parts are examples of a finer kind of design than we will ever approximate and Hint the functions and their relations tire coordinated more smoothly than we will ever be able to arrange human rela

tions.

USE OF ETHER IN SURGERY Youthful Dentict Said to Have Been Responsible for Its Introduction to General Practice. Yt bile various experiments bad been made with so-ea!!ed ‘'laughing gu«" or nitrous oxide gas in America prior to 18115, it was some 71 yean* ago that tin* first practical operation under ether was performed in the Massa elntseits General ho-pilal In Boston, and Hie peculiar part of it was that the sulphuric ether was given, not its one of lhi 1 house physicians, hut by a young dentist who bad been experi tnciiting on himself and bad gone to Sleep for eight minutes, lie rushed over to the hospital and asked a i Imiiee to demons!rati bis discovery. A man about to have a tumor' removed from his neck gave permission lo have the “new-fangled flop*:" applied. Den list Morton went to work and the in mor was removed. Tin* patient opening Ids eyes after the operation cried. "GetiHomen. litis is no humbug." and witli ihni reimirk eiher was given to the medical world Oliver Wendell Holmes eatae forward with names for the proecss and the liquid, and the dietiouury gained “anesthesia" and "anesthetic." In three months the drug was being used Hirougliout the civilized world. Fallen Fruits Never Good The difference between Inuiinns and fruits lies in the fact thnt Hie human Is largely the master of his own destiny. A man does not netsl to fall if In* does not want to. He may have the tnlnis Hi,ii imperfect hereditary leaves, but even they are not hound lo cause him to fall. If lie can be surrounded wllh the right envirotiniettl nuteli of what is in Hie blood can he turned to gets I uceoifnt. But if the fellow himself wants to fall the world is only too ready to make tin* way easy for him. Anil there are many tliai >eein to wont to try everything Hint any one else has ever done. It may lend them to the *•••'est pit. tmt they are always sure they enn worm out somehow. Only after it’s too late do men and women realize Hint fallen fruits have not real rating among good product* —Exchange. •

Archeologist* Interested. That the remote ancestors of tfi« American Indiana tuny have lived in '/vain In prehistoric days Is Indicated by some very remarkable discoveries of rock paintings that nrclicologlsts have made at El Bosque, In the hilly “ountry north of Aplera. a Spanish 'own about half way between Albaipte. situated In the plains of La Man•ha. and Alicante, on the Medlterra uean. Anthropologists also s«y that ‘hew* discoveries throw a fresh light upon the life of prehistoric man In southwestern Europe during the Mnglaleninti period of the great lee age. These Paleolithic tribes, when not compelled by the rigor of the climate f o And thetr dwellings in cavern* whore they obtained protection against voth the Intense cold and the attacks of ferocious animats, lived under rock -belters on the sides of valleys.

Relation of Doctor and Patient The relHtloiis between a doctor and Is patient are absolutely confidential md tire safeguarded tty law, which forbids a physician from testifying to what he has learned in treating the patient, miles* the latter expressly waives his right to secrecy. |f, how‘ver, a patient has employed several oetnrs. and has at a trial called some of these to testify to Ins condition as ■he result of tin Injury, the other side has a right to call the oH «r doctors, as the railing of some of .he physiclans by Hie plaintiff u a wid er of his tights.

| her death was survived by only one , „f hones, the innumerable muscle

j brother, Frank Blackerby of MontI gomery, Alabama. She was educated at the Maysville Academy Maysville, Ky, She was married .March 10th, 1862 at Berlin, Ky,, to Oliver R, Stroube and came to Indiana in the year of 1865 and located on what is familiarly known as the “Old Stroube Farm” at Mt. Olive an<] made this her home until the death of her companion in 1901. Faithfully and lov. ingly she served in this home uncomplainingly hearing the hardships and disappointments of those early days, devotedly sharing the joys and sorrows with her companion. She was the mother of eight children, Anna and Clifford having died in infancy ami William having preceded her in death in 1914. The rest being spared to be with her in her last hours, Frank and Earl of Indianapolis, Dr Charles of Roachdale, Mrs. Dr. Pollom of Thorntown and Mrs. E. R, Bartley of Greencastlc. Also thirteen Grandchildren anj four great grandchildren are left to cher. i ish her sacred memory She united I with the Christian church at ManI hattan, Indiana in I894 under th ( > j leadership of Rev. Nieoson and on I coming to Greenca-tle. to make her j home with her daughter, she affiliated j with the Christian church of that place. She lived a faithful and conj sistent Christian, and while there was j no narrowness in her creed her loyal ' devotion to her own church, was one j of her marked characteristics but did j not let this interfere with her friend- | ship for other denominations. Her 1 Christian character was not only ! seen in her church activities, but also | in the sacred circle of her home and she appropriated to herself that com. fort and solace due her as a child of God, getting great strength from the fourteenth ehapter of Revelations the thirteenth verse and requested that her tombstone hear this inscription, a part of this verse " Blessed are the dead, which die i n the Lord ’’ She bore the sorrow of her husband’s death and quiet courage, and met with cheerful spirit the increasing lonliness of approaching age and in the home of her daughter i n th, quiet years of retirement, following her husbands death, gained a large circle

of devoted friends

She was not of the most rugged constitution and had been frail tor a great many years but was ever pai. lent, grateful and hopeful. Her tailing health did not permit her to take an active part in social and civic life, but never the less she was always interested in the welfare of her neighbors and friends and the affair* of her country. She enjoyed her privilege of woman’s suffrage and while she was not able to go to the polls in person, necessary arrangement was made for her to east her ballot. She was artistic in her tastes, a lover of all that was worth while, music, birds and flowers, she lived close to nat. ure, simple, humble, ambitious reading only the choicest literature. She was a “lady" in the truest sense of the word, her heart w’as true her perceptions noble, her ideals lofty. She was never more happy than when her children were all gathered together with their little ones, never more patient, The quiet going about and fulfilling daily duties, which belong to the keeping of a restful home were shared in common with her daughter and she was happy i*i that sacred com panionship between mother and daughter, giving loving attention, mother like care to her little grand daughter "Minnie Mae,’’ that her mother might find more time for her duties and pleasures, lightening the burdens ever considering the comforts of others. She was 90 full of com. nassion, so much like the Master, so kin,) >* only fitting to say, "Her voice it was music to hear it Her face, it was heaven to see ” Her last days we-e as her past life "faithful” how gentle and good the ’ife now closed The record of worldly greatness often inspires emulation but the memory of the good, moulds worthy character and gives beauty to the soul. The sacrifice of love, the generou* giving the fragrance of her holy living, let us remember long. And while in life’s late afternoon. When cool and long the shadows grow I walk to meet the night that soon Shall shape and shadow overflow. I cannot feel that thou art far, Since near at need the angels are. And when the sunset gates unbar, Shall I not see thee, waiting stand And white against the evening star, The welcome of thy beckoning hand ?

TERRY L HENRY U EDS ROANOKE VlRGINT.v Idfiij Announcement of the manias Tery L. Henry of this city and Mi ( Clyde Hensley of Roanoke, Va.. w h„ took place in Bristol T.-nr, ). Thursday has been received by'rel .i ives and friends of Mr. Henry Til,, will come to Greencnstle t,, m .’^ their future home. Mr. Henry i* V ox-service man and served in Fram*. during the war for many nxmth.-

REAL ESTATE TR WSFKRs

William Newgent to WiUia m ui Eiteljorge, lot in Grenca.stle i.i,.-;,,, Samuel Bryd to Mario n c; O’Hnj'j 56 ac res in Clinton township. Allen E. McCammack to i/j, 1 Phillips, 37 acres in Marion tovr j J

? 1,000.

Central Trust Co. to .lose C. Cox lot in Greencastle, $900. Ida C, Boyd to Jesse C. fox lot -J Grcencrtstle $v

Ric hard (Dick) Lloyd who has bee visiting relatives in Putnam ( ounH for several weeks and lookii ■■ business interests has returned t: Houston, Texas where he has , I,;) farm.

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LIFE SAVED BY PLUNDERERS A NY KIND awwiikki!

; hethor you want to buy or Badly Wounded Soldier Owed Hecov. i v’riti* us your want'.

ery to Cupidity of Ghoul* Who I l . G loarlin . (Dear 1 e

Had Stripped Him. 1002 City T Q In

It was at Ui** Battle of FilgehIH, rotlghr Oct. 2:’,. 1012, that Sit Get-vasc* Scroop was found npnn the Held to all appearances quite dead. This was j on Sunday nftemiMin, when the hnttle j took place, and it was not nntil the i following Tuesday that Sir Gervase's ' son found the hody of his father. When discovered It was entirely naked. having been stripped 1>,v camp I plunderers. The body was also covered with wounds, sixteen of a major

nature being counted.

Being brought front the field, efforts wore made to aeeontp'Nb what appeared hopeless resitsr'.'fal ion. Rubbing was tried and after a long time a faint wiirmness pervaded the supposed corpse, final*/ resulting in voluntary movenieiAt of the limbs. Sir Gervase roeoe *r*»i} completely nnd lived for to**, years after what was considered a .'tnost a nilrnettloit* revlv!-

cation.

The doctors were of tin* opinion that he owed his life really to the brutal Indifference of the robbers, as the coldness of the night - hud coagulated the blood and prevented him from bleeding to death. Had he been brought off the field, they said, and put in 11 warm place he would undoubtedly have died owing to the fnct that he would not have received proper attention, hut which cm inustanccs

provided.— f’hicaro Joui'na’.

Dr. W. W. Tucke Dr. C. C. Tucke Physicians and Surgeons Office Vine Street between Wabfiington and Walnut Street Greencastle, Indiana.

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