Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 July 1921 — Page 3
A Y, JULY 8, 1921
THE HERALD-DEMOCRAT. GREENCASTLE, INDIANA
V (t EMPLOYCEo EJNJUi rHlCKEN DINNER GIVEN [ AST THURSDAY EVENING
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mployes of the Prevo Brothers srtment store were entertained at 6 o’clock picnie dinner last Thurs. b . _Mi<; S Edith Reeder and Ruth vir^ at their home on east Wash. treet. Miss Reeder and Ruth mie are salesladies in the dry df department of the Prevo store, fter the fried chicken dinner, the sts engaged in dancinp of various dVfrom the Virginia Reel to the re modem steps. Between num. the guests enjoyed card games present commended the hostesses hlv on the attractive party which
s a great success.
Those who attended the dinuner Miss Alice Murphy, Miss Alta Jllfl , Miss Metta McCoy, Miss Ed. Curtis < Mrs Pessp Bryan, Miss Jia Talbott, Miss Edith Reeder, Vivian Godwin, Miss Ruth Miss Ella Beckwi^r, Edgar nry and Gordon Prevo, Justin win, Reese Matson, Mr_ and. Mrs. rles Huffman. Paul Leer and Paul
honey.
PTAIN AND MRS. SCOTT E VISITING THE CLIPPINGERS aptain Stanley L Scott arrived di Boston Friday to enjoy a vaca. with his wife Mrs. Mary L. :tt and little son who are guests Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Clippinger on derson street. Mrs. Scott is a hter of Rev. and ^ rs . Clippinger aptain Scott is a graduate of st Point, class ’16, and saw over, s service for 16 months. He has eived a degree of B S. for a years t graduate work in Boston and been assigned to West Point to di engineering in that notable ^eminent School
iTRACTION CAR HITS MACHINE IN THE FOURTH jBUT OCCUPANTS ESCAPE INJURY
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IS PURDUE HEN LAYS 151 EGGS IN 164 DAYS
AFAYETE, Ind., July 1.—One idred and fifty eggs in 164 days still going. This is the remark, achievement of Lady Purdue, a jgreed Barred Plymouth Rock hen the Puddue University poultry ;k, who included in this record the t of laying 79 eggs in 79 clays, her she did not know whe n Sunday e or she was naturally so full of that she had to work on the jhath the same as other days. ,:he was hatched March 10. 1920, classed as an early hatched bird, of the points emphasized by the 'due poultrymen for years. Be. se of this early hatching she ma. ed before cold weather last fall during October laid 12 eggs when
gs were eggs.”
n November she laid 11 eggs, in ember 5, and in January she proed 26 eggs. In February, 22 eggs e marked to her credit and in ch 30, missing only one day which Saturday, March 12. She start. March 13 and did not miss a day ing an egg until May 31. The ex. ment of the Speedway race evi. tly was too much for this chicken >he failed to lay an egg the last of May. However, she started in in June 1 and did not miss a day to June 14, laying 13 straight. She till laying though not so regularly idy Purdue is an excellent illus. ion of what good breeding, good fing an,) good management will The blue blood of poultry arisrscy flows through her veins. Her obtained from a western agrl. ura] college, was from a hen who od 214 eggs in a year and her was from the famous Holler i and E. B. Thompson Barred rock sins, Her mother has a record '82 eggs a year to her credit and grandmother was even better with Thus may he seen that Lady 'ine is from a family of high pro. :er? She has received the 'tan. Purdue laying ration of 15
LAFAYETTE, July 1.—A total of 1149 men in 62 counties of the state have enrolled in the five acre corn growing contest for 1921, according to R. S. Thomas, of the soils and crops staff at Purdue University, who has charge of this work This is a larger enrollment and includes more counties than at any time since the
contest was started in 1914.
The five acre work is carried on by the Indiana Corn Growers Associa. tion co.operating with the Purdue Agricultural Extension Department for the purpose of stimulating inter, est in more and better corn produc. tion. The community demonstrational idea is carried out in most every local community. Efficient methods ar e put in practice by the grower* not only to increase the yield per acre but also to demonstrate the fact that higher yields are more economically
produced than lower yields-
The Corn Grower’s Association co. operates by giving each person pro. ducing 75.85 bushels per acre a bronze medal—85.100 bushels per acre a silver medal anj each person who produces 100 bushels or over a gold medal. These medals all bear the seal of the Association and the name of the contestant engraved on the opposite side. This medal is suspend ed to a black ribbon watch fob and makes a present which any farmer in Indiana can he justly proud to own. Each county which carries on the work cooperates by offering a mini, mum of $25 to be distributed in the county in prizes for the winners in the contest This is usually divided into several prizes and no one prize is large enough to make the rivalry
which exists unfriendly
The corn crop this year is excep. tionally poo,) in most sections of the state. Drouths are occurring in some sections, especially through the north west, but corn has not reached the stage wher e the drouth |s seriously hurting it. Although a great deal of the corn crop was planted rather late on account of the cold spring, it is nevertheless advanced far enough for this time of the year. If weather con ditions continue favorable the five acre work should show a higher aver, age yield^this year than ever be.
fore.
JERSEY CITY, July 2.—(Ring side)—Jack Dempsey World’s Heavy, weight Champion retained his title to day by knocking out Carpentier, the French champion challenger in the fourth rounjj of the 12 round bout. Dempsey won after one minute and 16 seconds of fighting in the fourth round- A right to the jaw by Dempsey soon after the fourth round op. ened sent Carpentier crashing to the floor for the first knockdown of the fight. Carpentier took the count of eight and then bounded to his feet. Dempsey sent him dow n and out with a series of body punches. Car. pentier was dragged to his corner by his seconds after being counted out but soon revive^ and walked across the ring and congratulate,! Dempsey. Carpentier put up a great fight. The first round was even. The sec. ond round showed Carpentier as his best and the third round was Demp-
sey’s
TRADER.WATTS WEDDING On Saturday evening June 25 at 5:30 o’clock occurred the marriage of James L Watts of Medora Indiana • * and Miss Dena Violet Trader of Greeneastle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harriso n Jones of this city. Rev. Levj Marshall performed the ceremony at the Christian church The immediate members of the family wit nessed the cegemony. The ride, groom a well to do farmer from the southern part of the state and Miss Violet Trader^ the daughter of Mr. and Mrs- Harrison Jones, also a well known farmer of Clinton Falls have the best wishes of their many friends. The bride was very charming in navy blue taffeta and carried a show, er bouquet of sweet peas. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hanneman were the at.
tendants.
Mr. and Mrs. Watts have gone on a short honeymoon trip after which they wil be at home at Medora, Ind
Round one—Carpentier sent left to body in a clinch- Carpentier land, ed light to head. Clinch. Carpen. tier upper cut right to chin. Carpentier jabbed face with left. Clinch Dempsey pounded back of head with right Carpentier missed right to head Dempsey pounded right to sides Carpentier missed right to head pound ej Dempsey’s Body with left Clinch Dempsey holds an^ hits with right to head staggering Carpentier. One punch cutting nose Carpentier land ed to terrific right under eye. Dempsey poked t0 head. Clinch. Demp. sey uppercut to face and hooked left to head. Clinch. Dempsey uppercut to face and hooked left to nose Car. pentier missed right to head. Clinch. Dempsey smashed Carpentier with right Carpentier missed hard right and fell through ropes Carpentier landed right to face staggering Dempsey ten seconds before the hell rang The round ended with the fighters together but neither suffering any damage.
Round Two
Second Round Carpentier look. ed bad. His ribs and stomach were
red. His nose was cut.
They danced about. Carpentier missed left. Clinched. On the break Carpentier danced away and then landed hard to head. Carpentier resumed retreat but came in with left and right leads missing both. Clinch. Carpentier whiped left to head Clinch. Dempsey uppercuts with left Carpentier landed left and
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Tilden and son. Arnold Tilden, Mrs. Charles J Arnold and her nephew, Joe Jimmy Adams, narrowly escaped probable serious in jury when the auto in which they were returning to Greeneastle from Reelsville was struck by the limited East Bound Traction car, due here at 7:20 o’clock at stop 35 southwest of town, Friday eveniig. The lives of the occupants of the car probably were saved by Mr. Tilden who turned his car down a steep embankment just in time to avert getting the entire force of the rapid, ly moving car. As it was the front end of the machine w as struck and wrecked Luckily the auto did not turn over. The crossing at stop 35 is a bad one, a view of the tracks being ob. structed to such an extent that a car cannot be seen until the driver of an auto is almost on the tracks. Mr. Tilden who was coming toward Greeneastle, was driving slowly down the grade which leads to the cross, ing None of the occupants of the car heard the motorman sound his whistle until the auto was almost on the tracks. At that time the rap. idly moving traction car was almost on them. At that time the motorman blew his whistle. It was too late to stop the car and t ^ lat driver could do was to turn his machine dow n the steep embankment to his left. As the front end of the auto swung around the car smashed into
it-
CRIMINALS,NEVER CAUGHT.
How Lawbreaker* Have Succeeded Evading the Police.
Ierring prophets op science.
RUSSELL AM) WASHINGTON TOWNSHIPS ARE SUFFERING FROM CHINCH BUG RAID
Farmers of Russell township are being sorely tried by the chinch bugs which are waging a severe attack on their corn, according to Charles A. Jackson, county agent. The pests originate in the small grain fields and when it is ripe they move into the
nds of r-v^-Lo' " i corn where they do untold damagee *t, 5 ^ ‘ orn > pounds ‘ Already they have advanced as far f, > mixtm In ^ ,° dts ’ an,i a (!r y : as fifty rows in some corn fields in ^n five fl r P ° UndS ' township. They sap the ^ pounds „ r," ° 8 !l? rtS strength from the corn and thus les. Ubays fed ^ f. ra,n 'sen the'quality of the yield. The bugs •tat the hen 3 !!traw litter. h ave already invaded Washington . ec P ent Y exer - I township, the county agent reports.
The front end of the automobile was smashed but none of the occupants were injured. The traction car was stopped as soon as the motorman coul,] ( 1° s0 > an< i backed up to the crossing and members of the party were brought to Greeneastle- Pass, engers on the ear, who wer P aware of the accident expected to find the j occupants of the auto killed or injured when they got back to th P cross, ing and were greatly surprised to learn that no one was even scratched.
Homer Smith of the Iowa State Penitentiary was in Greeneastle Sat. urday and took one John Martin from the Indiana State Farm to the Iowa prison. He stated that Martin * escaped from the Iowa prison four years ago. In Iowa the man was known as John McCarty. He has seven vears yet to serve in the prison and will be sentenced to an addition-
| Town orison. Martin was located bv the Federal authorities at Leaven, worth ns , by the finirer nrint bureau. Finger prints of men placed
under arrest are sent there
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peatedly. Dempsey came in and mi-'* i.
upper cut three times with right. Dempsey then split Carpentier’s cheek with right. Carpentier retreat ed and fought continually for a clinch. Carpentier tried'two left jabs and a right swing Dempsej shifted and missed with right for body and left for the head but missed Clinch
Round Three
Dempsey bored in and kept Carpen. tier away. Landed right to head but it was too high. Carpentier returned the compliment. Carpentier missed terrific right. Then Carpentier upper cut twice to the face and missed on third attempt- In a clinch Dempsey pounded head and body with both hands. Carpentier missed another right and almost fell to the floor. Dempsey missed left hook to head and landed with same blow. Clinch. Both beat body. Dempsey jabbed Carpen. tier missed left to right to head Clinch. On the break Carpentier danc ed away and again missed with both hands Ten seconds befor P the bell Dempsey landed two lefts an^ two rights. Carpentier seemed to be losing steam. His blows lactyid force and he was visabl e tiring.
Round Four
Dempsey wins, knocking out Car-
pentier.
Friday noon the temperature was ninety two degrees Fahrenheit ac. cording to J. P. Allen, Jr. weather man. Seventy eight degrees was the temperature at 7 o’clock this morn, ing Th e temperature Thursday noon was the same as todaty noon- The maximum temperature Thursday was
ninety six degrees.
BRICK CHAPEL
’but in smaller numbers.
scratching for it. t
er body measurements carry out | . , requirements for a good - Unless their progress is checked r said Prof A G. Philips in the y wl11 severftlIy )n J ure - the renting on her record.!’ She has corn ( ‘ r0 P in b( * h of these townships -
If they have only advanced two or
tttended slab sided body and car ’ out width on her back well to. d th e rear. She also shows an ex. fr >t abdominal developement and wry indication of a hign pro.
dobbs going big as A CITY GARDNER
t Dobbs is going big as a city taer. Last Sunday he had roast, ears out of his own garden. To. be reports ripe tomatoes. New fe are ‘‘old stuff” according to *bo so far has won all honors. °bn Cannon. Dr. W. M. Me. *bey, James Cannon and O. F. rstreet who are claiming garden- ^ distinctions will have, to “whip
three rows in a corn field, the county agent advises ^hat the corn be spray ed with kerosene. This will kill both the com and the bugs, but will pre. vent the spread of the bugs and will save the remainder of th ecrop. If the pests have not entered the corn from the small grain fields or have advanced several rows, the county agent advises that a furrow be plowed between the bug infested crop and that which has not been attacked. Then every fifteen or twenty five feet an eighteen inch post hole should be dug Fill the furrow with creo. sote oil each day The bugs will follow the creosote and fall in the post holes Thy cannot escape from the holes, and a shower of keroene
will kill them.
GEORGE RUMBARGER DIED AT HIS HOME FRIDAY
George M. Rumbarger. 77 years old died at his home, four and one half miles east of Greeneastle, near midnight Friday night. He was born i n Pennsylvania November 22, 1843. He was a Civil War veteran, having served in Company I. Fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Besides the wife, Nancy E. Rumbarger. those who survive are : one sister, Mjss Kate Rumbarger of Pennsylvania; one granddaughter Della McFarlane of Fillmore; fourteen grandchildren, and eight great, great grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the resi dence. Rev L *"D Dodj of Green, castle conducted the services. Inter, mentw as in Forest Hill Cemetery Greeneastle was without electric power for thirty five minutes Friday, from 12:40 o’clock until 1:16 because the cylinder packing on the engine at the local power plant blew out. The local plant is operating today while workmen are strengthening the main tension line between here and Clinton.
Lela Miller Waneta and Gail Judy visited Miss Velma and Ada Braden Sunday afternoon. Stella Gay Davis and daughter little Gay Ileen are spending a few days this week with their aunt Mrs.
R. C. Baird.
Loraine Allen who is on the sick list is much improved at this writ,
ing.
Mary Virginia Allen is visiting her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Allen.
Mr. R. C- Baird and family spent Sunday evening at Brick Chapel with relatives. ? There will be preaching here Sun. day morning. Clinton Judy spent Sunday with Gilbert and Wayne O’Hair.
The Oxford street “doctor," wno while ostensibly conducting a legitimate business, yet maintained the closest relationship with the elite of rascaldom, assisting them with his advice and financing and engineering their most promising schemes, might have posed as a veritable double of the man who so nearly foiled the redoubtable Sherlock Holmes. True, Bridgewater, has met with his deserts at last and Is now undergoing a well deserved term of penal servitude. But his conviction was due to a series of (for him) unlucfcy coin- | cldences, such as no Intelligence, however keen, could hope to guard against or circumvent. And, besides, there are others, keener and cleverer even than he. says the London TitBite who have flouted the police all their lives through and have died rich and respected In the end, without having had a solitary conviction recorded against them, although their crimes have been manifold. 81r Robert Anderson. K. C. B., late chief of the criminal Investigation department. Scotland Yard, who was interviewed by the writer, laid particular emphasis upon one such—the Individual responsible for the theft of Gainsborough's picture of Georgian a. Duc hess of Devonshire, and Its sensational restoration after a lapse of more than 20 years. “That man,” said Sir Robert, “lived in a bigger and finer house than the one 1 now occupy. He was better off financially than 1 ever was, or am ever likely to be. Yet he simply revelled In robbery. It was bis profession, you see. He had embraced It as other men embrace the army as a profession, or the law. or the church. He took genuine pride In It And he made It pay from every point of view, save only the moral one.” Further Investigation revealed the existence of other master criminals of a like type. One of them—he Is well known to the police, who, however, can do nothing for lack of the necessary proofs—Is an individual who, some few years hack, conceived a certain diabolical scheme which had for Its object the decoying abroad ct rich Englishmen and murdering them there for the sake of their money and valuables. This dangerous desperado resides at this present moment in an elegant suite of bachelor chambers not far from Hyde Park, and can be met with nightly at ’'swagger” West End bars as well as at other and more questionable resorts In the same neigh-
borhood.
He never commits a crime himself, but is ever ready with advice and money for the encouragement of those who do commit them. He is liberal, too, and “straight” from his own point of view, and for this reason probably not one of the human tools he uses so freely* has so far presumed to “round on” him. Once, however, the police thought they had him. It was when a notorious Jewel thief was being tried at the Central Criminal Court for the theft of a duchess’s jewels. Scotland Yard knew perfectly well that this man had been financed in his enterprise by the Individual In question, who had also disposed, through his agents, of the bulk of the stolen property. A word from the prisoner would have sufficed, and he would then have got off with a nominal nine months or so. That word, however, he refused to speak, and was consequently "sent down” for seven years. This was In 1899. He was released In the spring of 1905, went straight from the Iklson to his ‘‘banker" and confederate. and received from him in hard cash the sum of £1,000, with a promise, afterward faithfully kept, of more
to follow.
Of a different type of the above, but equally difficult to catch. Is the master criminal who, while keeping carefully in the background, devotes all his energies to the furtherance and fostering of some particular branch of rascality. Concerning one such the writer gathered some Interesting particulars in the course of a conversation he had with the chiei Inspector of weights and measures to
the London county council.
For years, it appears .this gentleman’s detectives have been trying in vain to run to earth a mysterious Individual whose business In life It is to manufacture false weights for the use of dishonest costermongers and fraudulent tradesmen generally. Many thousands of these weights are turned
Learned Scoffer* at Wonder* That Hav* Come to Pa*a. It occasionally happen* that the predictions and theories of mathematicians and scientists are woefully upset and contradicted by actual result*, says a writer In Cassler’a Magazine. Every one familiar with the story ot the editor who. In the days of Stephenson’s early experiments In railroading, predicted that a speed ot more than twelve miles an hour by rail would be Impracticable it for no other reason than that the human system would not withstand traveling at a higher rate of speed. In the early days of steam navigation also Dr. Lardnsr delivered an address before a scientific body, in which he maintained that transatlantic steam navigation was impracticable. mainly because of the Inability to provide room aboard ship for the coal that would be neceseary tor the voyage. The meeting had scarcely adjourned before tbe news arrived that a ship bad Just completed a transatlantic trip under steam. In another case a number of Individuals seriously promulgated their tielief that It would never be possible to successfully lay a cable across the Atlantic, because, as they said, tne density of tbe water below a certain depth would be so great that the cable would not sink to the bed of the ocean. Regardless, howevei^ of these predictions, tbe cable promptly same to tbe bottom of tbe sea. At that time also. It may be noted, tbe greatest ocean depths tn which cables were laid was only about 16,404 feet Within the past year a cable has been successfully laid by a German company In tbe Pacific ocean in the vicinity ot tbe Luikin island* at a depth of 26,246 feet In still another Instance the author of a well-known text-book on telegraphy, published In the sixties of the last century, expressed the opinion that while the idea of duplex telegraphy, or the sending of two messages at once over the same wire, was very beautiful In its way. it must be looked upon as little more than a feat ot intellectual gymnastics, and quite useless from a practical point of view. Within less than a decade after tbe publication of this opinion not only was the duplex telegraph In practical operation, but quadrupled telegraphy, or the sending of four messages at once over one wire, was also an ac-
complished fact.
The Negro’s Optimism. The contemplation of death, which brings terror to many and to almost all men sadness, brings to the negro tbe idea of rest from labor and surcease of sorrow. Hence one find* more preparation by him for that fatal last event than for living, moving, ana having his being on earth. Death, too, is a certain vindicator of equality; not that the negro is glad when an Aryan, though a hostile one, goes to tbe land of darkness; but be points significantly and with melancholy satisfaction to the fact that poor Mos't who died a social pariah yesterday, occupies as much ot this mother earth as the dead colonel who lorded It over him so haughtily but a short tortnight ago. Through all his vicissitudes hope la the black man’s priceless asset. This he never loses, now gloomy soever the way. For him there is always something in the future, no matter how distant A negro of uncommon ability, the advocate of a new education for negroes, has told them that In a thousand years they will be fitted to partake of the things the Aryan now enjoys, and this prom* ise of remote enjoyment the blacks hail with enthusiasm. Was there ever sublimer faith? The very heart-wall-ings of the negro smpeak of a brighter beyond. Of joy he cannot be bereft; his buoyancy overtops any sorrow. Pessimism seldom knows him. On* miracle of deliverance has been pet*formed for him. and h* is confidently expecting another.
Several from around here attended
the festival at Somerset Saturday I out_yearly. They are all cast from
night. 6
Miss Effrey Voliva left Tuesday for San Diego, California, where she will visit relatives and friends. Miss Voliva will return to Green_ castle in the autumn.
Charles Stoker. Charles Tackett, Norris Tudor and Earl Knauer of Martinsville were visiting friends at DePauj Friday. They are allg rad. uates of the Martinsville High school and expect to attend DePauw next year.
Mr and Mrs. Fred Hillis and child ren of Lexington Ky , are here for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shop taugh and other relatives and friends Mr Hillis is engaged in the oil busi. ness in Kentucky.
tbe same molds and are expensive artiolea to buy, costing from 30s to £2 a set But they are absolutely perfect to tbe eye, even the council's stamp being forged upon them to a nicety, and they consequently command a ready sale at county fairs, markets,
etc.
The men who sell them—there are only two or three of them—are perfectly known, but merely to possess false weights Is, as the law now stand*, no offense, and consequently they cannot be Interfered with. U the authorities could lay hand* on the actual maker things would be different. But thl« theyi have ao far failed to do. There are probably 300,000 men employed In the mines of Mexico. Mexico I* the richest mineral eoratry in the world, not excepting Pen*.
Not Used to Stoves. Tbe Genoese are not accustomed to the artificial high temperature whlcn we maintain in America Their houses, In fact, are constructed to contend entirely with summer heat and not with winter cold, being all built of stone, with enormously thick walls, floors of marble mosaic, celling from ten to fifteen feet high and inner partition walls nearly two feet thick. A diminutive open fire place, a ridiculously small oil stove or nothing but a little charcoal brazier la depended on to warm a vast room which is sumptuous In everything but comfort as we understand the word. Hotels, even of tbe best class, are very slow In being provided with the so-called "central heating," while some of the finest old palaces are warmed no better today than they were when erected centuries ago. Churches public buildings, theatres and halls make no pretence of being beated at all. Such being tbe case and the native people wholly Indifferent to a winter temperature which chills an American, the demand for stoves Is naturally not very lively among them; but there are some three or four thousand foreigners living here, and all faSny well to do. besides the thousands ot travelurs constantly coming and going. all of whom prefer better h«thed houses and hotels. The Genoese himself enjoys the outdoor air and puta on heavier clothing only wneu be comes luside his “marble balls.”
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