Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1924 — Page 6
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CLAIMS Sim GHICAGO_ESTATE ‘Heir’ of Late Edwin P, Jennings Tells of Millionaire's Early Life. By United Setts CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—Charles E. Miner, claiming to be the son of an “unwed wife” of Edwin B. Jennings, dead multimillionaire recluse, appeared in Chicago Wednesday with demands for possession of the $15,000,000 estate of one of Chicago’s'pioneer families. Volumes of colorful details of his early life in a love nest maintained by the millionaire, were presented to authorites. Tears stood in the mans eyes ; he told stories of filial devotion to “his father,” of the love Jennings had for him and of the dramatic scene at their last parting when Miner sailed for France with the American troops in 1917. His mother. “Miss" Ida Miner, disappeared while he was overseas, '•lin'- said. Will Not Found The hitherto unheard of “heir" not only demands the $6,000,000 estate left by “his father,” but also $9,000,000 left by "his father’s” father, John Drake Jennnings, who achieved fame and fortune in Chicago real estate during the city’s early boom days. A score of distant relatives, who live in 'nearly as many States, claim the Jennings millions, while search for a will drawn by the recluse a short time before his death has proven unsuccessful. Jennings and his mother were happy in their love nest, and the wealthy business man supported him until he enlisted in the Army, Miner said. Parentage Unquestioned No question of his parentage was ever raised. Letters from both “his father” and mother were received during the early months of the war. and the last of them announced that his mother’s health was failing fast, the “heir” said in relating his story. Then, while he was lying wounded in a hospital back of the lines, letters and j Jennings’ packages of American cigarettes stopped coming. Miner drifted about the country until a year when he married and settled in Louisville. Ky., news of his father s death and the scramble of distant relatives to secure the Jennings millions brought him to Chicago.
BOND MUST EQUAL MONEY DEPOSITED IN COONEY BANKS Finance Board Nullifies Practice of Securing With 50 Per Cent of Total, Banks in Marion County entrusted with county funds will have to furnish surety bonds equal to the amount of money they obtain, the county board of finance ruled this morning. County depositories previously have supplied depositories to furnish a surety bond equal to 50 per cent, or personal securities equal to 60 per cent, of the average deposits. The county has $7,000,000 on deposit in forty-four banks, County Auditor Harry Dunn told the board. Interest of 2 per cent is paid. Figures compiled by the auditor show that in November. 1923, some of the banks held county funds as follows: Merchants National Bank, $2,001,405.95, under $500,000 surety bond; Indiana National Bank, $2,215,699.98, under similar bond; Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, $1,326,914.51, bond $375,000. Joseph L. Hogue, city controller, stated that bond approval in the p:tst had been handled by Leo K. Fesler, county auditor, when the statute required that they be approved by “this board.” The meeting was adjourned until the auditor notifies depositories of the new ruling. Members of the county finance board are the mayor, city controller, president of the school board, county auditor and county commissioners. RULING FAVORS DRY ENFORCEMENT Important Decision Given on Search Warrants, /: ,/ United Press SOUTH BEND, Jan. 10.—Prohibition enforcement officials of Indiana won a big point today In the question of search warrants, long a matter of dispute, when Judge Lenn J. Oare in Superior Court overruled a motion to quash the indictment in the Alphonso Rhodtes case. The defense had charged that the warrant against him was Invalid in that it did not describe the property to be searched nor did it allege that any specific crime had been or was to be committed. Oare ruled that the warrant was valid as it complied with the Indiana statute regarding the issuance of warrants based on information and belief. The jurist permitted the stil lto be introduced as evidence, citing that while the still was not described in the warrant, the officers were justified in seizing it, since possession of a still is alfelony.
Mother and Son Practice Law, Wait ’ for Daughter to Join Their Firm
Cincinnati Woman Holds Position as Assistant County Prosecutor,
Bn SUA Service CINCINNATI. Jan. 10.—Mother and son are practicing law together here. And they are only waiting now for daughter and sister to join the firm. It’s all come about through Airs. Jessie Adler's ambition and determination to go through college and legal school with her son, Sherman. Funny part is, she beat him through the bar examination by a year. Now she’s an assistant coun ty prosecutor. She is the first woman ever to be appointed to this office In Hamilton County. She’s Suffragette Airs. Adler, though an ardent suffragette for years, is distinctly feminine. Yet she doesn’t require courtesies that aren’t _ extended to men while she’s about her professional duties. “When I go into the offices where men are smoking and have their hats on and their feet on their desks,” she says. “I feel like an intruder. “Why, then, should I ask them to treat me as an invited guest at a social function?” But Home Woman "Just the same.” she admits, "I like a man better If he extends me the same courtesy In my professional life that he would accord me on meeting me socially. I've been a woman 44 years longer than I've been an assistant prosecutor.”
LOCAL PASIORS OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ‘LIBERAL’ Indianapolis Moderator Says Fundamentalists Are Few Here, A majority of Indianapolis Presbyterian ministers will join n the protest against the action of the General Assembly in Indianapolis last May in condemning the doctrines of the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the First Presbyterian Church of New York. Dr. George W. Allison, moderator of the Indianapolis Presbytery, 3aid today. According to announcement from Buffalo, a committee of 150 Presbyterian ministers has signed an affirmation upholding the right of the Presbyterian clergy to exercise liberty in thought and teaching. “The General Assembly of 1923 ex pressed the opinion concerning five doctrinal statements that each one ’ls an essential doctrine of the word of God and our standards,’ ” the statement said. “Furthermore, this opinion of the General Assembly wants to commit our church to certain tieories concerning the inspiration of the Bible, and the incarnation, the atonement, the resurrection and the continuing life and supernatural pbwer of our Lord Jesus Christ. “Not the Only Theories” "Some of us regard the particular theories contained in the deliverance of the General Assembly as satisfactory explanations of these facts nnd doctrines. But we are united in believing that these are not the only theories allowed by the S ipturas, ar.d our standards as explanations of these facts and doctrines of our religion.” Dr. Allison declared that a majority of the Indianapolis Presbyterian ministers are in sympathy with Dr. Fosdick. "I know of only two Presbyterian ministers in Indianapolis who come even near being fundamentalists,” he said. He said there will be no meeting of local ministers, but that individual action will be taken within the next two weeks. Dr. Wicks Signs Letter Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls’ Unitarian Church, today said he is one of a number of Unitarian ministers in the country who have signed an open letter to the Unitarian church espousing a more or less liberal view. The ministers appeal for the “practice of the ancient laws of brotherly courtesy and intellectual integrity. They ask the Unitarian churches to demonstrate in their thought and work and worship that men can be in complete sympathy with the modern scientific spirit and at the same time be profoundly and practically relig ious,” says a statement. “For the sincere convictions of the conservatives we can have only respect, but we are Impelled at this time to express our cordial and spiritual sympathies with the men and women who are fighting the battles of freedom within their own churches,” says the open letter. IT’LL RUIN OUR GAME Japanese Beetle Makes Golf Ijnks Like Tennis Courts. Golf courses will be absolutely put out of business in Indiana if a certain Japanese bug ever gets over the State line, Frank N. Wallace, State entomologist, 6aid today. The bug. another yellow peril, carries the name. Japanese beetle. "The San Jose scale has ravaged Hoosier orchards with damage of tens of millions, but the Japanese beetle will be Just as bad If it ever gets as fai West as Indiana,” the official warned. The beetle, now confined to New Jersey and Pennsylvania, eats every thing that grows from trees to grass. No jnethod of oontral has been discovered. ■v l
ATTORNEY SHERMAN ADLER (LEFT) AND HIS MOTHERS, ATTOR NET JESSI E ADLER.
Mrs. Adler’s daughter is 14. Just j as soon as she’s through prep chool I and college, she expects to pore over | the old law books and get ready to j join the partnership. J “My ambition,’ says the mother
City Wonders About Mansion of Elderly Millionaire, Just Completed
HIT—U. S. EPPERSON. ABOVE—THE HALF-MILLION-DOLLAR HOME HE HAS JUST BUILT, TO THE TOWN’S MYSTIFICATION. “JHjjj ‘yrpU , W_l Service for Other purposes. At present, the ' s ” - M m lANSABCITY, Mo., J&n, who ire childless, . A 1 sj Whon U ’ S - E P£ raon ’ occupy the mansion with a U V*M —I thy resident of Kansas City, servants ided to spend several of his de t dug years building a magnificent V \ hat , *l*ltM* or medical or f! ne. h took into consideration the Sanction Is to get the house on th. t that he. and his wife, well rt ** at , h of EPPwson is not known in not occupy the home very long that , any "'* ***■ !t But lh ” remains that the home 1b so hnilt
RIGHT—U. S. EPPERSON. ABOVE—THE HALF-MILLION--DOLLAR HOME HE HAS JUST BUILT. TO THE TOWN’S MYSTIFICATION.
Hu SKA Service When U. S, Epperson, weali ■ thy resident of Kansas City, decided to spend several of his declining years building a magnificent home, he took into consideration the fact that ho and his wife, well along in years, could not expect to occupy the home very long. So Epperson arranged that the heme be so constructed that It could be used for institutional purposes after the death of himself and his wife. The home, recently completed at a cost of nearly half a million dollars, contains forty rooms that can be used for hospital wards or
PRICES FOR FARIA PRODUCES ADVANCE DURING PAST YEAR Wholesale Prices in General Decline, While Retail Prices Increase, By DR. L. H. HANEY Director of the Business Research Bureau, New York University. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. —The bureau of labor statistics at Washington has just published its index of wholesale prices. We also have for comparison the bureau's index of retail food prices, which makes it possible to see pretty well where we stand. As to wholesale prices, the November level Is found to be lower than in October by less than 1 per cent. Farm products, cloths and clothing and chemicals and drugs were up, but there were declines in fuel and lighting, metals and metal products, and hous furnishing goods which turned the scale downward. Foods and building materials were practically unchanged. The number of articles which in price was much greater than the number of items which declined. In comparison with a year ago, the average of wholesale prices was 2% per cent lower. This fact, however, was chiefly due to the large decline in coal and oil prices. Food and clothes are considerably higher than last year at this time. When we turn to the retail prices, the picture is different. The list of retail food prices in November Was nearly 1 per cent higher than in October, and was 4 per cent higher than a year ago. Another item of food for thought is the fact that retail food prices have gone tip more than wholesale. The retail index in November was 51 per cent over 1913 and the wholefood index was up only 48 per cenL Moreover, retail food went up in price during November, while at wholesale foods were unchanged. Turning from the foods to the food growers, the farmers, th price table ahow* that, farm products at whole-
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and senior partner, “is to prove that a woman with a perfectly splendid husband, a young daughter, a son as a legal colleague and a home where the machinery never is in evidence, can be a political success.”
for other purposes. At present, th<aged couple, who are childless, occupy the mansion with a few servants. What charitable or medical or ganization is to get the house on the death of Epperson is not known publicly. In fact, it is not known that any will g<st it. But the fact remains the home is so built that it can be converted easily into a hospital or orphanage. The fact also remains that Epperson frankly stated when he began work on the home that he and his wife did not expect to occupy lt many years. So Kansas City continues to wonder.
sale were 1 point higher in November than in October, and 3 points higher than a year ago. For business in general I ace two points of interest: 1. The greater stability of the price level shown by the small changes in the averages of late. 2. The great progress mad in bringing the various prices Into line. By the latter point I mean the excessive divergencies among prices of different commodities that came in post-war times are being ironed out. A year ago the bureau's Index showed a spread of 96 points between the highest (fuel) and the lowest group. Today the spread Is reduced to 83 points. More than that, the various commodities are more evenly scattered about their average—as statisticians would say, the "dispersion” is more even. This is a very constructive indication. It Is a sign of passing toward normal conditions. BOILER EXPLOSION IS FATAL TO TWO Engineer of Freight Train Seriously Injured, By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., Jan. 10.—W. M. Passwater of Stony Island, 111., head brakeman, died todp.y of injuries as the result of an explosion of a boiler of an engine on a Nickel Plate freight train In which S. G. Heppner, fireman. Ft. Wayne, met instant death. Ralph O. Scherer, Ft. Wayne, engineer, was seriously injured. The men were riding In the cab and were thrown many feet by the explosion. The train was wrecked and flying pieces of iron struck and damaged nearby property. The station was wercked by a freight car thrown against the building. Hydraulic Engine Gear STOCKHOLM, Jan. 10 —A hydraulic apparatus for transmitting the power from a Diesel motor to the axles of a locomotive has been invented by a Swedish engineer named Rosen. The running costs, compared with a steam engine will, it is claimed, be reduced by at least oru>-third.
BRIIISH LABOR IS SEEKING SUPPORT IN UPPER HOUSE Party Has Only One Avowed Representative in Body, By United Pres* LONDON, Jan. 10.—As laljor government In Great Britain draws nearer day by day, the question of gov- ' ernmental representation In the : House of Lords Is arousing lengthy | discussion. In event the labor party comes into j power, with Vlamsay MacDonald as ! prime minister —and this is considered certain—lt will have only one avowed representative in the upper house, the Earl of Lyrnberly, a Socialist One spokesman, labor leaders agree, would not be enough, and they were casting about for a plan to strengthen the party’s power among the peers. It Is thought possible Lords Buckmaster, Parmoor and possibly Halldine might accept cabinet posts In a labor government Rank and file of the laborites oppose creation of labor peers, causing leaders to discuss legislation for amending the .present procedure so as i to permit members of the cabinet to address either house or answer questions in either body. Fire Destroys Town Hotel By Timex Special I FREELANDVILLE. Ind., Jan. 10.— '■ Fire originating from a defective flue ! destroyed the town hotel here Wednee- ] day. The loss was SIO,OOO with $2,000 I Insurance.
Big Game’s Worst Peril —the Wolf
By MORRIS ACKERMAN mHE most deadly menace of America’s big game today Is the wolf! There are more reports of depredations of these plundering killers coming from various parts of the United States and Canada than In years. Unquestionably the wolf pack is on the Increase —a most unfortunate condition for the deer, the moose and caribou—to say nothing of the lesser Inhabitants of the wilderness. Gory Mudwera What the fox. owl and goshawk is to the small game of our country, the wolf is to the antlered horde—gory murderers who recognize not the laws of man nor the confines of our preserves and sanctuaries. The {situation is bad and unless the so-called balance of nature, In this case the killing of the wolves amongst themselves, rights itself the deer family will be wiped out in many parts of the hunting country. Even Algonquin Park —the greatest natural deer preserve in the world—has Its wolf pack. It employs rangers born to the ways of the wolf. “Full pay and S4O per head" for every wolf destroyed, has only served to check the devils. This, too, where the location of the wolves is known. Avoid the Traps The rangers "plant” a barrel of fish heads, carefully set the traps. The wolves dig out the traps, spring them and consume the fish heads* Poison the heads and you wait In vain. I know personally of several places that have afforded excellent big game hunting In other years where in the fall of 1923 the game had either been driven out or totally killed off by the wolf. What is your solution? The wolf Is the most difficult predatory animal In the whole world to destroy. This not excepting the cougar. Thousands upon thousands of our big game hunters get in the back country each fall and it is safe to say that not one hur.ter in a thousand even sees a wolf, much less kills one. Yet how many of us heard night after night the yowl of the pack striking terror to the very marrow of the game we seek. Leaves Ravished Bones How many jimes we find the snarl of bloody hair and the few remains of gnawed and ravished bones in the morrow's snow. The tale Is a pitiful one, indeed. In most States and all the Can-
Court Says Law Should Limit Divorces as Woman Seeks Fifth
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By S'P'A Service r~TIMAHA. Neb., Jan. 10.—How I( j many divorces should a 1 woman be entitled to? The question is stirring legal qua-rters hereabouts following attempt by Mrs. Marie Hillier. 21, to s.multaneously unshackle herself from her fourth and fifth husbands. Judge Day, who heard the case, pronounced as official dictum that the law ought to establish a numerical limit on the frequency a person might seek court assistance in severing the cord that binds. Mrs. Hillier sued for separation fiom her fourth husband, Ross Miller, and was in turn sued for divorce
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Another offer lias been made for Muscle Shoals to the War Department. Secretary of War. Weeks did not divulge name of the would-be purchasi rs. Widespread labor disorders have broken out in Germany as result of attempts to scrap the eight-hour day and reduce wages. At Bochum police used daggers and bayonets to repulse horde of unemployed. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee lias referred the Boarh resolution for Russian recognition to a Subcommittee. Fire destroyed the Casino Theater at Princeton. New Jersey, Wednesday, for many years center of Princeton University dramatics and only theater in the town. Eleven bank employes and one cus-
adian provinces there is a heavy bounty on the despised hide of the wolf. A bounty that calls for all the craftiness and wiles of the hunter and trapper in the setting of of his steel, the placing of his strychnine and sureness of his aim. The answer is told by the ever-
GRAND JUROR REPORTS Thomas J. Eales, 3906 Hillside Ave., today reported to Crimin;U Court for service on the new grand jury. He Is the second man to qualify. Cart R. High was obtained last week. Judge James A. Collins ordered ten more names drawn to obtain four more Juroia. They will report Saturday. With the addition of Walter P. Henderson, 416 S. Noble St., Leander Williams, Camby, in*., and Edward W. Eichoff, R. R. P., today the Criminal Court petit jury now has four men. T. R. Baker, 4190 Central Ave., qualified last Monday. Twenty-five more names will be drawn to get eight more Jurors. Ten Cases of Measles Reported By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 10. —A slight wave of measles In the city Is reported by Dr. Aubrey L. Loope, city health officer. There are ten cases among school children. Dr. Loop© states.
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by her fifth spouse, Paul Bergers. She charged cruelty as her reason for wishing freedom from Hubby No. 4. In turn, Hubby No. 5 asked to be separated from her because she was not free when marrying him. The latter’s plea was refused \\ hen the court gained admission from him that ho,had run away to Colorado to evade conditions of the Nebraska marriage law. Stiil wed to both men, Mrs. Hillier left the court. But paradoxically she had nary a husband. Her case is without precedent in legal history, it is said.
tomer were locked in the vault of the Maywood State Bank, Maywood. C'al.. Wednesday by a band of four robbers, who escaped with $2,000 in cash. While all members of the Erie. Pa., polico force were in conference with Mayor Williams, discussing law en foreement, two bandits entered the Lincoin bank in the business district, held up the cashier and escaped with $5,000. Former President Wilson In a dictated reply to request for his views or the Bok peace award, stated Wednesday he “had no comment to make on the plan, nor shall he have any comment to make on any other plans of similar character.” The Swiss government will vole Feb. 17 for fifty-two-hour work week. The schedule under the present law Is forty-eight hours.
increasing, killing, howling mob. Who will solve the problem of this villainous creature that comes boldly from his laSr to destroy by night and slink back against the break of morn to its hiding place in irnpentrable swamps? The world awaits that man.
RECEIVER IN INDIANA Albert L. Habb was named ancillary receiver in bankruptcy of the American Hominy Company by Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court today. The action was taken on petition of the Old Ben Coal Corporation of Illinois. He has charge of Indiana property of the bankrupt. It has a plant at 1859 Ghent Ave. The concern was thrown Into bankruptcy i nllllnois Federal Court several days ago. Officials of the district attorney’s office said the Government has a claim against the company for $566,477.40 for alleged unpaid corporation income taxes. Slain, Bang, Ouch! Joe Lilly, colored, 2058 Highland PL, answered a call to his front door Wednesday night and received a brick in his left eye which broke his glasses, Injuring the member so that it had to be removed. Elmer Brewer, colored, 15, of the same address, was charged with throwing the brick.
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BOMB SUSPECTS HELD ON CHARGE , OF CONSPIRACY v Blanket Affidavit at Montpelier Includes 48 Men — Bond Is $5,000 Each, HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 10Charges of conspiracy to commit a felony were filed today against fortyeight men arrested at Montpelier Wednesday as suspects in the bombing of the Columbia Hotel there. The charges were contained in a blanket affidavit signed by William B. Clark, deputy sheriff, who was in the hotel at the time of the explosion, and Prosecutor Maddox. Judge Victor Simmons fixed bond in the sum of $5,000 for each man. The Biackford County grand Jury will meet Jan. 14 to Investigate the explosion. Prosecutor Maddox said all suspects refused to discuss the explosion. Officials blamed the blast on a labor war between striking workmen of the Montpelier Manufacturing Company and the National Steel Casting Company and strikebreakers quartered in the hotel. The men arrested are: John Hartley. John Hobson. Lawrence Sprowl, Emmett Sidney, W. 0. Rogers. Walker Bonsel, C. O. Doz, Harvie Jackson. William Myers. Mac O Donnell .Bert Reed. William Cook. Jay McPherson. Sam Carey. Albert Schofield. C. O. Sample. Charles Foy. William Foy. Andy Cochran, William Davis, Ed Krause, Frank Donahue, Edward Carr. John Schuller. Carl McDonald, George Holtzapple, Scott Dugan. Charles Garrison. Jim Sullivan. Tom Johnson. Harvey Johnson. Gerald Michael, Fred Michael. Ed Lippit. M. C. Walker. Clark Getts. Mel Hawk. Frank Hart, Chester Brenner. Elmer Huddleston. Clyde Penrod. Joseph Lyons. Harry McHenry, Clyde McHenry, Bert McCullock. Henry McCuUocb, Harold Englehart. Harry (Hop) McHenry and his brother Clyde are well known in flistio circles In Indianapolis.
HUGE lICREASE IN WORKOFP.H.N.A. SHOWN BY REPORT Nursing Association Elects Officers at Annual Meeting, Work of the Public Health Nursing Association in the past two years has practically doubled that for the eight preceding years, Miss Edna L. Hamilton, superintendent, reported today, at the tenth annual meeting, at the Peverin. Mrs. Henry B. Heywood, starting the second year of her three-year term as president, presided. Mrs. Alex Cavins entered her second year as second vice president. Other officers were elected today, as follows: First vice president, Mrs. W. W. Thornton; third vice president, Mrs. Ronald C. Green; treasurer, Mrs. Thomas H. Kaylor; recording secretary. Miss Ruth Sheerin; directors, for three years, Mesdames Robert Bryce. Ronald Green. John N. Hurty, William F. Milholland, Ben D. Hitz, F. R. Kantz, F. C. Furseott and James A. Bfawden. Mrs. Edward Bailey Birge of Bloom ington. Tnd., was elected to honorary membership. Illustrating Miss Hamilton's report. Miss Rhuie Caster, nurse, gave a demonstration of work among crippled children. Six children from the foreign health clinic, conducted by the P. H. N. A. at the Americanization Settlement, 617 W. Pearl St., gave recitations and songs. Miss Hamilton reported nurses had made 56.738 calls in 8,937 homes in the past year. She reported 25,000 calls were made on expectant and new mothers, and babies. PRICES AREFI! ATCITYJARKET Few Fancy Products Show Slight- Decline, Fruits, vegetables and poultry eontinued generally steady at city market today except a few fancy product*. Strawberries dropped to 45 arid 60 cents a quart. Mushrooms selling at sl.lO a pound for the past three weeks decline i to $1 and the first Imperial Valley head lettuce, a much better grade man has been on sale, was 15 and 20 cents a head. Jomatoes Increased from 40 cents tc 50 cents a pound. The first of new Southern carots appeared at 10 cents .<> bunch. Home grown hot-house beets also appeared at 15 cents a bunch. Other prices were unchanged. Eggs probably will not begin their preEaster slump until about Feb. I, deal ers said. PATIENTS BONA FIDE Sinmyside Occupied Only by Marlon County Persons, Says Dr. Hatch. A statement made at a conference Tuesday between county commissioners and those interested in the State taking over Julietta, county insane hospital, that Sunnyside, county tuberculosis hospital, draws out-of-the county patients who should go In State tuberculosis hospitals, was denied today by Dr. H. S. Hatch, superintendent of Sunnyside. “The patients at the county tuberculosis home are all from Marlon County.” said Dr. Hatch. “The law requires that ffny one desirous of entering must prove he has been a Marion County resident for one year, and I have strictly enforced the rule.”