Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 July 1921 — Page 2

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THE HERALD-DEMOCRAT, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA

FRIDAY. JULY 8, 1921

t. ivr-.'V'i lAlve.» l-I.NAL ACTION O’. RESOLUTION

WASHINGTON, July 1.—Enactment of the compromise resolution enflinfr th e state of war with Ger. many anil Austria finally was com. pleted today by Congress and the measure will be sent by special messenger to President Harding at Raritan, N J., tomorrow who is ex. pected to sigrt it immediately^ At the White House where the resolution was received early tonight, it was said that the messenger would leave here at 9 o'clock tomorrow, ar. riving about 2 o'clock at Raritan, where President Harding is the guest of Senator Frelinghuysen over the holiday. Announcements were that all oth. er senators paired or absent favored or opposed the resolution according to the party affiliations > Senator Knox of Pennsylvania author of the original resolution, was absent, but was paired with Senator Pomerene of Ohio, Democrat Signed by Vice Preside n t The resolution after the Senate vote, was signed by Representative Towner of Iowa, Republican speak, er pro tern in the House in the ab. sence of speaker Gillett, who had gone to New Jersey with President Harding. It was then signed by Vice President Coolidge during an exe'cutive session of the Senate and sent to the White House. Final debate today was principally by Democratic opponents who declar. ed that the Repubican plan was fu_ tile anj would necessitate a separate treaty of peace later or ratification of the treaty of Versailles . For the Republicans, Senator Bran degee of Connecticut made the prin. cipal address, declaring that there would not be a treaty of “peace” but probably one or more of “com. rnerce”, which ,he said, wmuld deal with questions arising out of the war. Senator Lodg e of Massachusetts, Republican leader entered the discussion briefly, mainly to support Senator Brandegee’s contentions. Arguing that a peace treaty was not necessary to conclude wars, Mr. Lodge said the

iGREUNCASTLE WOMAN BACK FROM TURKEY

MRS. PAUL AIRGOOD. FORMERLY MISS HELEN JONES. AR. RIVED AT THE HOME OF HER FATHER. W. W. JONES, MON. DAY NIGHT AFTER TWO YEARS SPENT IN TURKEY IN ASIA AS A RELIEF WORKER That anyone should be ignorant of the meaning of “white mule” seems practically unbelievable to most of us, especially since the Putnam coun. ty sheriff has been capturing gallons of it almost every night. But Mr. and Mrs Paul Airgood, who are visit ing in Greencastle did not catch the significance of the expression until they stopped their automobile at Coatesville to buy gasoline Monday evening W'hile on their way from Philadelphia 'Pa., to Greencastle. But there is a reason for almost everything. Mr. and Mr Paul Air. good have only been in the United States since May 29 when they land ed in New York off the Green steamer Megalli Hellas after a lengthy ab. sence. Mr. Airgood was among the first men in the United States Army to go overseas. He was a member of a n ambulance corps. Later, he went to Turkey in Asia as director of truck transportation for the Near East Relief Committee. Altogether, he was outside the United States for almost four years. Mrs. Airgood went to Turkey in Asia in 1918 as a relief worker for the Young Women’s Christian As. sociation. Later, she did relief work for the Near East Relief CommitteeMrs. Airgood wa.s formerly Miss Helen Jones. She is a daughter of W W.Jones, druggist of this city. While working in Turkey ] n Asia, Mrs. Airgood met Mr. Airgood. They were married May 9, 1920 in Har.

United States had negotiated treaties i poot, Turkey. At present they are

of Commerce with Great Britain in 1812 and 1815 and also with Spain

after th e Spanish war.

Denies Plan to Act on Treaty In. response to a query from Sen. ator Harrison of Mississippi, Demo.

cra^t. Senator Lodge said he knew of

no*plans by the administration to re. | ersity Kansas Afterward, submit the treaty of Versailes to the came ' an instructor in the

visiting friends at the hom e of Mr.

Jones on Seminary street.

After graduating from DePauw University with the class of 1900, Mrs Airgooj taught school in var. ious capacities until 1918. For a time she was an instructor in Baker Univ-

sh e be. Kansas

Senate,

Withdrawal of American troops now in Germany was discussed by

(State University.

Entered War Work in 1918 In 1918 she entered war work at Senator. Brandegee McKeUeT o7Ten 1 Washington, D C., and was serving nessee, Democrat and others. Dis 'i" the national headquarters of the claiming to speak for th e President in ^ at <‘ty whe n she left Senator Brandegee said h e believed for Turke V in As ^ to do , rel '? f . w “ rk ,, . i for the Young Women s Christian the peace resolution would necessi. . . tate retirement of American troops ssociation.

they obtained accommodations on the Greek steamer Megalli Hellas and set sail for New York. After leav. ing Constantinople, they only touch. e t ] at one port,, Piraeus, Greece. After eighteen days sailing they arrived in New York on May 29. From Now York Mr, and Mrs. Air. good went to Philadelphia, Pa., to visit Mr. Airgood’s parents, Mr and Mrs E, E. Airgood, After visiting several days in Philadelphia, Mr. i Airgood purchased a Buick touring car and with his wife started for Greencastle by automobile. Leaving Philadelphia they took the Lincoln highway, which they fol. lowed to Pittsburg, At Washington Pa., they took the Ocean to Ocean highway. Outside of Indianapolis they were forced to detour, and while doing so lost their way. They found Coatesville, however, and stopped there for gasoline. After purchasing gasoline, the automobile motor refus. ed to start, as if tired after so long a trip. Leaving the machine, Mr and Mrs. Airgood rented another and ai rived safely at the home of W W. Jones Monday night Travel In Turkey and Here Speaking of road, Mrs Airgood savs she does not mind the turrs and bumps in the highways of the United States after riling over th e miser, able thoroughfares of Turkey in Asia. Thcie they have “hair pin” curves, she says. Despite these quick turns in the roads of Turkey Mrs Airgood » • say tnly one automobile accident oc. curred i n her vicinity while she was in Turkey in As : a. In this case a Ford fell over a precipice but no one was killed. Mrs. Airgood is high in her praise of the overseas men from the United States who drove trucks in Turkey in Asia. Comparing overland travel in Tur. key and in th e United States, Mrs. Airgood says that in the former country it is necessary to take all of one’s equipment an,] accommodations with him, such as bedding, food and everything needed on the journey. One of the interesting as well as humorous incidents Mrs. Airgood tells concerning her experiences in Turkey in Asia is that of a robbery which occurred at a post where she and her husband were stationej for a time. Mr, Airgood had arrived at the post on a certain day with a truck load of provisions Evidently the natives suspected that some money was include,) among the equipmentAt any rate a band of three Turkish robbers entered the supply building that night and on e man carried away a regulation safe on his back while the other two fired shots behind them to discourage pursuit Mrs. Airgood says it is not unusual for Turkish me n who practice the carrying business to make away with such loads

from German territory. Closing the debate, Senator La. Follette of Wisconsin, Republican, ex. pressed “dissent and "denunciation” of the provision reserving American rights to German Property seized by the alie n Property custodian. Such action, he declared was in violation of the treaty of 1828 with Prussia and also of international law H e added that he would reserve freedom of ac. t'ion in case future treaties dealing with German property should be pre sented.

CORPORATIONS OF COUNTY HAVE BEEN ASSESSED

Corporations of Putnam county have been assessed by the county board ff review as follows: Christie.Thomas Auto Sales Co — $5,880 as a whole Shover Stock Food Co.—$3,350 as a whole. Dunlavy.Stoops Drug Co.—$4,800 as a whole. , Th e Owl Drug Company—$11 65# as a whole. Jones.Stevens. Drug. Company.— $7,440 as a whole. J. Sudranski and Co.—$28,85^ as a whole. J. F. Gillespie of Reelsville—$6,630 as a whole. Central Community Chautauqua System $30,000 as a whole R. Bittles Son’s Company—$25,000 as a whole. Hurst and Company—$131,000 as a whole. Indiana Portland Cement Company —$869,360 as a whole." King, Morrison and Foster Auto Sales Company—$90,700 as a whole Harris Milling Company—$26,200 as a whole Oloverdale. Hardware. Company— $115,5$0 as a whole. John Cook and Sons—$35,000 as a whole American Zinc Products Company.. $307,160 as a whole. Ohio and Indiana Stone Company— $75,035 as a wholeWidwest Stone Company (A. & C.) —43.200 as a whole. Reid.. Murdock., and. Company— $10 040 as a whole.

Leaving New York by steamboat, Mrs Airgood arrived in good tim e at Constantinople, an,] made her way into the interior of Turkey in Asia on the Bagdad railway, which was then being managed by the English and Italian governments. Arriving at Harpoot in August, 1919, Mrs. Air. good continued in the service of the Young Women’s Christian Associa. ( tion there as a relief worker until November, 1920. Was Married In Harpoot While in Harpoot Mrs. Airgood was i n charge of the rescue home for women, especially Armenian women, which was located here. The Armenians suffered terrible persecution at the hands of the Turks during this time, being compelled to keep mov. ing from place to place constantly, If the Armenians survived the tor. tures of Overland marching through the desolate wastes, they were usual, ly shot dow n or otherwise made away with As the marchers proceed ed, Turkish men would pick out the attractive Armenian women as pros, pective wives. Later, when they had been deserted by their Turkish hus. bands, the Armenian women would be taken care of in the rescue homes such as Mrs- Airgood was in charge of. Mr, and Mrs Airgood were mar. ried at Harpoot on May 9, 1920 In 1920 Mr, and Mrs. Airgood left Harpoot and went to Sivas, Here she continued her relief wj^rk under ‘he auspices of th e near East Relief Committee. At Sivas, Mrs. Airgood had charge of a tailor shop where clothing was made for the natives. Cloth of all kinds and bedding was also furnished to the natives by this shop. From Turkay to America Leaving Sivas in March by Turkish carriage Mr and Mrs. Airgooj ar. rived at Samsoun on the Black Sea at the end of a n ine days traveling A Turkish carriage is much like an old fashioned surrey and is drawn by a horse or horses At Samsoun, Mr, and Mrs. Airgood took a steamer for Constantinople anj arrived at the old Turkish stronghold after a five days sail. For five weeks they remained in Constantinople endeavoring to arrange for suitable transportation to America. At last

LIQUOR RUNNERS OLD OFFENDERS SAYS DETECTIVE

Two Indianapolis detectives sent to Greencastle by the Chief of Po. lice of that city, were in Greencastle Wednesday of last- week and were in the court room when the sev. en whiskey runners who were arrest, ed by Sheriff Lawrence Sears were taken befor e Judge Hughes for sen.

tence.

“Old offenders, all of them”, is the expression of one of the detectives when he had seen the seven men lined up before the Judge. Most of the men had been in the Indianapolis courts on several occasions, several of them having been mixed up in illegal liquor transactions. “Judge Hughes made no mistake in giving these men the limit” said one of the detectives. Their pleas for leniency should not be considered One of the men sentenced, John Kress, was especially anxious that leniency be granted in his case. Through the detectives it was learned that KreSs was ouf on bond from an

REFORMATORY DEAL HELD UP SAYS M’CRAY ..INDIANAPOLIS, June 30,—Com. pletion of the deal betwen the state of Indiana and Colgate & Co,, for the sale of the Indiana Reformatory prop erty at Jeffersonville will be held up probably until the legislature revis. es the law providing for removal of the reformatory, Colgate & Co. a. greed to waive the question of the lime of obtaining possession of the property it was announced Tuesday following a conference between Governor McCray and Austen Colgate re. presenting the company. The Gov. ernor said that another session of the legislature, although not nec. essarily a special session, might be necessary before the transaction could be consummated. Should a session of the legislature be necessary before the transaction is completed, Colgate & Co, might not have possession of the property until some time in 1923, Entered Into Agreement After the last legislature passed a law authorizing the removal of the reformatory from Jeffersonville to a site “adjacent to” th e State Farm in Putnam county, the state and Col. gate & Co., entered into an agreement whereby the company was to buy the Jeffersonville property. The company paid $105,000 o n the pur. i'hase and the state was expected to j give possession this fall. Recently however the Governor and the commission on the relocation of the reformatory decided that the law under which the relocation, commission was operating was somewhat con fused and they decided, if possible, to hold up the whole matter until the next meeting of the general assembly when an effort would be made to clear up the situation. In order to do this however, it would be necessary to de. ! lay the transfer of the Jeffersonville | property to Colgate & Co., and after J some correspondence Mr Colgate | came to Indianapolis for a personal conference Statement Is Issued Following the conference the Cover nor and Mr. Colgate* issued the fol. lowing joint statement: “In view of the published reports that the state of Indiana has requested to be released by Colgate & Co., on its contract for the sale of the Jeffersonville Reformatory, the Gov. ernor on behalf of the state and com. mission and Colonel Austen Colgate on behalf of Colgate & Co, announce that there is no truth in these re.

ports.

“Certain matters have developed which may delay somewhat the de. livery of the property but it is expected that these matters will be ad. justed. It is the expectation of both parties to go through with the deal (The Governor, commissioners and Col. gate & Co,, are in entire harmony and are co.onerating in every respect that the state may be'enabled to de. liver the reformatory property at Jeffrsonville to Colgate & Co., at the earliest date possible.’ ’ No Time Limit “Colgate & Co. was not asked to relieve the state from the obligations of this contract,” the Governor said in discussing the statement. “The state previously had told Colgate & Co., however, that if we dij not have enough time to make the necessary arrangements for vacating the proper ty the only alternative would be for Colgate & Co,, to take its money back Now the Company has waived the matter of time and there is no time limit o n the transaction It may be necessary to have another session of the legislature but not necessarily a special session, before the transac. tion can be consummated."

OVER HALF OF THE MINES ARE IDLE

Over 50 per cent of the coal mines in the state of Indiana have been compelled to cease operations because there is no market for their product, according to statistics compiled this week by the Indiana coal trade bur. eau, anj many more mines are ex. pected to close down opletely in the next few weeks unless consumers start buying their winter supply early. The mines which are running are not working full time but average about three days a week. Many of these mines would have been compelled to have close,] down several months ago if they had not had coal contracted for during the last winter. It is estimated that over 25,000 miners in the Indiana bituminous coal field have been thrown complete, ly out of work and the men who have ben enabled to work are not receiv. ing a living wage as their expenses remain practically the same when they are only working a few days a week There is very little work for these men to resort to anj in many cases they ar e in destitute circum•tances. Mine worker’s organiza. tions throughout the United States have been assisting the miners when

ever posible.

There are 280 mines in the In. dia^ia coal field which ship coal by railways and of these mines at least one.half of them have been compelled to close completely down throw ing every employee out of work

OLD “SOL” HAS BEENi WORKING HARD LATELY

Greencastle people have been en. during extremely hot weather for more than two weeks with compara. lively little complaint. So far as i* known, no one in this vicinity has been overcome by the heat this sum.

mer

On the whole this summer, thus far, has had mor e hot days tha n were experienced last summer, according to Joseph P. Allen, Junior, the wea. ther observer. Today is the eight, eenth consecutive day that the tem. perature has been ninety degrees Fahrenheit or beter, Mr, Allen says At noon Wednesday the standard thermometer belonging to Mr. Allen showed that the temperature was ninety degrees. But ^he maximum for Wednesday was not reached until 3 o’clock in the afternon At that time the temperature was ninety four degrees. At 7 o’clock this morning the temperature was seventy eight de grees, Mr. Allen reported Although there lias been more heat this season the rainfall since Jan uary first, 1921 has been below nor mal The deficency to date is 1.99 inches, according to the United States weather report- During the heavy rain at Grencastle last Tuesday afternoon 1,06 inches of rain fell, ac. cording to Mr. Allen. The total amount of rainfall since January first 1921, has been 18,89 inches Apparently there will he no relief from the hot weather for at least a short time. According to the weath. er forcaster, the tempearture will rhange but little during th e next few days. ] The temperature today noon was 92 degrees.

A. k

Indianapolis court and was to haver ed the employment of the Kalamazoo

appeared there on Thursday for trial Prior to the sentencing of the men, Judge Hughes was beseiged by wives friends and relatives seeking clem, ency for the men. The Judge turned a deaf ear to these appeals On Wednesday night two women, wives of two of the men, called on the Judge at his home and asked that sentence be suspended on their hus. bands. This morning, through the mail he received several letters ask. ing the same thing. Judge Hughes is firm in his determination to punish severely the liquor law offenders and those who are ar. restej * n this county need not expect any clemency in his hands. The seven men sentenced Wednes. day were taken to the State Farm last Thursday to .start serving their sentences.

LORING JOINS LOOSE LEAF COMPANY

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Arthur L. Loring for the past five years head of th e Commercial departmen of Western State Normal school has resigned that position and enter.

Loose Leaf Binder company He will b e head of sales efficiency and sys. terns and will assist in working out problems that members of the sales force meet in calling on prospective customers. Mr. Loring is the husband of MrsEdna Loring daughter of Dr and Mrs. G. W Bence who is at present visit, ing her parents in this city.

PUTNAM PROPOSES $85,500 FOR GOOD ROAD BUILDING

Thomas Bettis of \Clinton Falls^ who has been working wfth the Charley Holland threshing outfit, suf. fered a severe injury to his foot Fri. day when he let a large piec e of wood fall. The wood struck his foot pain, fully injuring it.

A lovely wedding of the season was that of Miss Harriett Emily Powell, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Perry Edwards Powell, 3466 Carolton avenue an,] Robert L. Mason, Jr son of Judge and Mrs. Robert L, Mason of Greenfield, InA, which was celebrated at 4 o’clock last Wednesday at the Central Avenue Methodist Episco. pal church. The church was beau, tifully decorated with summer flow, ers, ferns and palms, a basket of flowers forming the center of the altar before which Dr. Powell fath er of the bride read th e ceremony. Both Mr. anj Mrs. iMason are form er DePauw students. —Indianapolis

Star

Putnam county with a proposed expenditure of $85,000 for paving is one of 310 states, counties, townships and municipalities announced within the past week as contemplating high way improvement to a grand total of

$179,307,359.36.

More than $1,000,000,000 is avail, able for good roads and streets in the Lnitej States This sum large as it is, represents an increase over the highway revenues of 1914 of only about 150 per cent, whil e highway traffic has increased 450 per cent.' There are now 2,500.000 miles of highway in the United States of which only aproximately 100 000 miles are improved with modern pave ments. When compared to sums expended for luxuries by the pleasure loving public the American highway budget does not look so impressive. The people of this country spend $1,000,000,000 a year for candy $3,500,000,000 for automobiles, $1 ’ 000 000,000 for automobile tires" OMOoff 0,000 f ° r SraS - 0line ' * 1 ' 500 .- 000,000 for carpets and rugs, $1 950 000,000 for jewefcy, perfum!^ and cosmetics On the other hand the sums spent for roads and streets are seven times greater than those expended for water supply improvements, three fifteen f h0Se ^ S<>Wera K e and fifteen time 3 those fo r bridges ^l*«>rt Bettis of Clinton Township IT* p - d 3 black ,nake in hk * garden Fricay that measured six feet and one inch in length The snake was under a g rape arb ’ or and Un Cr' 1<,Wed * 8 “- i!i “ <1 ' h “ k

DE PAUW MEN RETURN FROM “Y” CONFER^ Nine DePauw men who gates from the University tu th nual student’s Y'ouiig Men’s Ch * Association Conference fur u' Central States held at Lake ^ Wis„ have returned and rap 0 !? the conference wa s one of the ’ ever held. The conference vj, J from June 17 to 27. Eight huni delegates, representing on e h" ; ./ and thirty seven colleges attend The purpose of the conference not only to train young men for ] r ership in college Y. M C A's to instruct them to be ‘leaders in dustry and in the world at l ar ! Dad” Elliot, student secretary the Y. M, C. A, for the nine Centn States, had charge of the conference Delegates from DePauw whJ tended the conference were: W-v D. Grose, last year’s president of t DePauw Y. M. C. A.. Ronald FiscW next year’s president of the DeP a ^ Y, M. C. A,, Herman Yager, »J president elect of the DePauw y C. A. for next year, John Cady, *, has been electej secretary of the Pauw Y. M ,C. A. for next ye# Harold Snape, chairman of the sodcommittee, DeVon Frash, chairm of the memership committee Geon Oborn, chairman of the Bible s*d committee, Claude Cooper, a membi of the friendship committee, and win O’Neel, business manager of J 9Y” hand book which will be iss# at the opening of DePauw next fall Some of the best speakers in t United States delivere,] addresses! fore the conference J. Stitt Wil# an authority on labor problems! hails from California, made tin speeches at the conference. For last year, Mr, Wilson has been !i luring exclusively for the Y. M Arthur Nash, a noted r! jthing mi facturer * of Cincinnat Ohio 1 spoke before the conference. A) man who practices the'G Men Rule business, Mr. Nash i.- one of greatest examples in the nation prove that the Golden Rule\ work in business, he explained to conference that during th»> year 1919, when industry was vevy si throughout the United States, business increased one thousand cent. According to its prei ichedule, the America’. Maza: will publish an article cor.eming wonderful business career of Nash in one of its autumn issues. Other important speakers at the ference were: Bishop William F ! Dowell and Bishop The -dore Hem son, both of the Meth - !i-t Episco church: Sherwod Eddie, who has; complete,] a trip around the wo: John Timothy Stone of Chici David R. Porter, international ! dent secretary of the Y M f A the United States and ( anada; Samuel Zwemer or Aral - a, one of greatest living authorit -s on hammediam, and Dr. Ernest F I pastor of the Methodist churr Evanston, 111 Dr. Tittle deliver series of sermons at DePguw ir spring of 1920.

Mrs- Frank Reed of Clnerdale slightly injureda at near 7 o'clock Wednesday of last week when she knocked down by a Ford Touring - driven ,by Carlisle Gill of Cloverd* 1 The accident occurred on east IP street jn Cloverdale in front of Reed home, Mrs. Reed is said have walked from beh.’ii her W Sedan directly in front of Mr- ^ automobile, Mr. Gill was d^ slo wit is said and stopped almost mediately after the a? .dent o fC ®5 ed. Only a badly wrenched uk and foot and aome minor bruises suited from the accident. Dr W Pritchett of Cloverdale was ed after the accident.

MYSTERY SURROUNDS SHOOTING OF THOMAS HUNTER TAXI DRW

Tom Hunter, who drives a ta* 1 * the Stone garage was shot Ihro^ the joint of the first finger right hand last Thursday » cC * ing to a report circulated here day. Mr Hunter, after having injury dressed, is said to have to the hom e of his mother, near namville. Whether the shooting was ai or intentional and who fired shot is not generally known Hint woul,j make no statement reg>^ th e shooting Paul F Cook of the Moore & ^ shoe store left Sunday f' ir cago where he will attend the an meeting of th e Illinois Shoe Retafj held July 5, 6, 7 and 8 in the » man TIotel. The purpose of th«ing is to give the shoe retail opportunity to discuss and s°' e trial problems and return home a better grasp of prices, st y‘ e i J mnm, rhtfoor ArtTuiiti^nS.