The Knightstown Journal, Volume 2, Number 61, Knightstown, Henry County, 13 June 1905 — Page 1

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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS . OF THE PEOPLE OF HENRY, .' HANCOCK AND RUSH ' COUNTIES

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KNIGHTSTOWN, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JUNE , 13 1D05.

Old Series Vol. 22 No. Z .

ANOTHER ECHO OF GIPE CASE

DETECTIVE SUES COUNTY FOR REWARD

Demur by Henry County Commissioners is Bern T Heard by Judge Felt at Greenfield

Judge E. W. Felt, of Greenfield, has been busy hearing the demur by the commissioners of this county to the complaint of Elmo C. Curry, for 500 el aimed to be due him for the arrest of the murderer of Mrs. Mollie Starbuck at Greensboro last fall. At the time of the murder the commissioners of Henry county offered a reward of $50' for the arrest and conviction of the murder

er. A number ot omcers went to work on the ease, among them El-1 ) C. Curry, a Cincinnati detective. He finally secured evidence that justified the arrest of Haley Gipe, who was afterward tried for the murder, the jury bringing in what many thought to be a peculiar verdict, finding Gipe guilty of manslaughter. He was accordingly sentenced to the penitentiary from two to twenty-one years, and is now serving his time. When Curry applied for the reward he was refused on the ground that a reward had been offered for the murderer, and not for one convicted of manslaughter. A change of venue was taken to that county, and the court is hearing the arguments of the attorneys, II. H. Evans and F. H. Brown, of Newcastle, and Marsh & Cook, Greenfield for the plaintiff, who contend that the reward should be paid, and that manslaughter is a degree of murder, and Fred C. Cause, of Newcastle, and Binford & Walker, Greenfield, are contending that it is not.

Crops Make Tardy Progress. The farmers are now watching their corn grow. Belated planting has been finished in every instance it i said, and early planted fields are in good condition. There is every prospect for a bountiful harvest of corn in the three counties The favorable conditions in this section of the State are not to be

fund in some other parts. Corn planting is still in progress in many counties. The Indiana crop

bulletin, which was issued Thursday says : The rain on Monday put a stop to corn planting wherever it was unfinished, and the ground continued too wet for the work to be resumed until Wednesday or Thursday, and in many localities later in the week. Consequently there is considerable cor a ground not seeded, and owing to washouts large acreages will be replanted and some will be planted over. Early planted corn on sandy soil that lias been dry enough to be cultivated is doing fairly well, although its growth is slow. Much of the crop ir fou! and badly in

need of cultivation, os well as higher temperature. Wheat is well advanced, being headed or heading in all sections, and generally continues promising although rust is reported in a few

localities.

Rye promises a good crop. The

outlook for a large crop of oats continues favorable.

Clover is rank and promises a

heavy crop, but much hay will be weedy. Some little cutting has b 'en done. Timothy also has a g iod deal of whitetop, but otherwise is in good condition.

THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON OVER THREE TUG COUNTIES

Does This Hit Here? An exchange gives some stubborn facts that cannot be denied, together with the reason tha-.t gome towns are dead ones. A town that

never has anything to do in u pub

lic way is a dead one and on the road to the cemetery. Any citizen who will do nothing for bis town

furnishes the coffin. The man who

is so selfish as to have no time from

business to eive to city afiairs is

making the shroud. The man who will not advertise is driving the hearse. The man who is always pulling back from any public en

terprise throw bouquets on the grave. The man who is so stingy as to be always howling hard times preaches the funeral and the fellow who always has a good word for every other town but his own sings the doxology. Thus the town lies buried free from all sorrow a nd care. The way to build up a town is in unity bury prejudice, spite, pergonal selfishness and pactional feeling so deep that Gabriel's horn would never be heard on resurrection day. And above all tolerate new blood and 'newcomers" who have the welfare and community at heart just as much as those who were barn and brought up in the place, and more' go in many instances. A perfect organization of the 'people, the formation of an improvement club and a combination of capital for mutual benefit should be effected. Every country gentleman - who retires from the farm and erects a nice house f houid be keen to the interests of its progress and join in to promote its 'welfare, and ro a king it possible for the people in town to prosper. Preach and practice this doc trie and jou will always be prosperous

-Fop Advertisers. Fish cannot live in still water. Neither can progressiveness live with the man who doesn't advertise. Small obstacles on the track don't.keep the train from moving on, yet sometimes a mighty little disappointment in advertising will cause a big man to falter. One advertisement has't the power to increase a business any

more than one grain of corn has of

fattening a chicken.

Watering" the lawn once wop't

keep it green the rest of the year.

Advertising once don t make any

n )tieeable difference in the annual profits.

It would take an unlimited amount of fuel to heat the whole

outdoors, yet a great many adver

tisers would like to reach the four

corners of the earth with a fifty

dollar advertising appropriation.

Men never become prominent by

the thing they didn't do. It's the

doing that counts -advertising for

instance. A trolley car with the "juice" off, like a business man minus the aivertising appropriation, soon c mes to a standstill. Better a poor man than a deed

one; better a little advertising than none at all.

Shirley has a new fertilizer factory. The Greenfield council voted down a proposition to increase the mayor's salary. The salary is now

$550 and the Star msi-ts that it should be at least -f 1,0H. The Greenfield council has prohibited the .use of fireworks and firearms within the city limits. This forstalls the Greenfield boy's

Fourth of July fun, Steven A. D. Beckner, a prominate citizen of Greenfield, is dead of paralysis. He was the proprietor of a large laboratory and plant for the manufacture of medicines in G reenfield. The salary of the postmaster at Greenfield has been restored to $'2,000 by order of the department, taking effect July 1. L?t vear it was reduced to j'lildii, be

cause the receipts fell $50 be-low t he rt q u i red amount. This year

year the report shows nearly $1,000 in excess of Inst year.

The wife of Obediah Bowman, the Carthage Chadwick, who is in jail charged with defrauding sev

eral well-known Carthage busi

ness men, is in a critical condition with cancer, and she and her children have been having to depend on their neighbors for food and care. Bowman is still in jail, as he could give no bond.

A. C. Pilkenton, a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana Biind Institute and Prof. George F. Wilson, superintendent, sailed recently from New York, for Edinburg, Scotland, where they go by appointment of Governor Hanly to

represent Indiana in the international convention of educators of the blind, which will begin on the 21st inst. They will be absent eight weeks. The deadlock among the members of the Rushville City Council over the election of a school trustee, the letting of the contract for fuel for the city water and light plant, and the drilling of the newwater wells at the plant, has lei to much ilifeeling among the councilmeri. some of whom refuse to speak to one another. Some members are charging graft in different forms on ihe part of the other members. The council has been unable to hold a meeting for the purpose of deciding these issues, and transacting the city's business for four weeks.

TROLLEY TWINKLES.! Eli Marvin, treasurer of the Indianapolis, Newcastle & Toledo Electric Railway Company, announces that agents of the company have obtained options on land for the entire right-of-way of the proposed electric belt railway. This right-of-way is one hundred feet in width and forty miles in length. It is said that the plans of the company contemplate the

actual beginning of work within a , few months. j John M. Lontz, secretary of the: Richmond Street and Interurban ; Company, which is owned by the Murdoek syndicate, whose inter-! ests are closely allied with the; Widener-Etki ns Dolan syndicate, says it may be announced author!tativtly th.jt there will be a con-' solidation of the traction lines of t iis region. Definite information h- to the line-' which will be in-

Successful Society Organizations" and "The Future Church," which were well received. Rev. Moon preiched the convention sermon on Friday morning, his theme being ''The Vitalizing Spark."

d tught-r of Pleasant

was well-known in this

will probably

eluded, he say-

b; available within the next two

or three weeks. It is inferred from Mr. Lontz's statement that the Richmond Street and Interurban

line, and the Dayton & Western, besides the Indianapolis and Eastern, will be the principal lines absorbed.

THE REAPER'S HARVEST. Mrs. Lizzie E. Crum, the wife of John W. Crum, died yesterday morning at the home of her brother, Miiton Hayes, on S. Jefferson street. She lived in Cofi'ey ville, Kan., and was recently brought to Indianapolis for treatment. On last Friday she was brought here, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Jennie Green, of California, and her three sons. Dropsy was the cause of her death. Mrs. Crum

was forty-fou r vears old, and was born near Dunreith, being the

Haye, who

vicinity.

She lived here several years ago, and has many friends still in Ktiihttosvn. She was a member of the Christian church and of the W. C T. I'., t!iu a devoted Christian woman. She leaves her h unbind, who was aio born and reared near Dunreith, three sons, one sister, Mis. Jennie Green, of Palo Alto, Cal., arol three brothers. Milton Hayes, of this city, John W. Hayes, of Dunreith and Silas Hayes of Lewisvi'ie. The funeral will take place" at the Christian church tomorrow ( Wednesday) afternoon at three o'clock. Brief services will hje held beforehand at the house. ' Interment will be had

at G.encove.

CARS TOO EAST AT GREENFIELD

INTERURBAN COMPELLED TO SLACKEN SPEED

No Ordinance Passed, but the Company Agrees to Reduce the Rate to Six Miles an Hour

The city council at Greenfield has ordered the city attorney to prepare an ordinance prohibiting the use of the streets by the inter-

ban :.! pwny for "'freight le-

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i THE WEATHER. Cloudiness, with showers and thunderstorms tonight and Wednesday; warmer tonight.

Mrs. Jennie Green, of Palo Alto, California, -came Friday evening with her sister, Mrs. John Crum, who died yesterday morning. Mrs. Green will be remembered here as the widow of Dr. Alpbeus W. Green, and lived here for many years. She will remain here for a brief visit before returning to California. Carey White, of Richmond, was here Saturday and Sunday visiting his parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. 'W. White. Mrs. Mary T. Brown and Mrs. A. C. Pilkenton, .of Greenfield mother and e-kter of Paul, I.;; :r, spent Sunday hers e. th.3 priest of lit. and Airs. Browa.

Oran Hanley of Carthage and Miss Jessie Kurtz drove to Pendleton Sunday to visit friends. They were accompanied home by Miss Harriet Harold, who had been there severel days on a visit.

THE SANCTUARY. The Y. Lt. A. Society entertuined about thirty young ladies on last Saturday evening at the home of Miss Mabel Woodard in honor of Miss Harris, state president of the Young Women's Christian Association. After a musical program Mits Harris gave a most interest-

her worn. Kelresnments were served and a good social time was

enjoyed by all. The children's day services at the Presbyterian and Methodist churches w?re all well attended Bliss Harris, state president of the Y. W. C. A., was present at

Dot. ana t:.e vtatmr,T was ai-o.

on the far pet for reglp.-ting i-j prove the street as per their grensent. Complaints lotve h-en n-:m-erow-at G re vn field of the excessive sp cd of the cii -. Hnd at the instance of the council the superintendent ordered the speed reduced to six miles inside the corporation there. ed trip to Columbus and other points in Ohio, and to Wheeling, West Virginia, Pittsburg and other p"int in the East. The trip

;i!i cover about a tl

md Uiilcr.

Prayed for the Sinners. The Greenfield Republican says: This morning about 9 o'clock the peaceful city of Greenfield was

thoroughly aroused by what seem-

for help

coming from the courthouse tower. Citizens to the number of a couple of hundred ran from all directions to give aid as quickly as possible expecting to see the broken and crushed remains, perhaps, of seme sight seer who had fallen down

the tower hundreds of feet below.

the Friends services Sunday even-1 Cries came louder and stronger

ing. She preached at the Raysville Friends church Sunday morning. 1 he Richmond district of the Epworth League is holding its convention at Newcastle tod ay and tomorrow. The sessions began this morning, a,d a number of local leaguers are m attendance. Mrs. Alice Bierhause and Misses Florence Hiatt and Mary Careon represented the Presbyterian Christian Endeavor society at the convention at Hartford City; Mrs. Waller, the Christian society and Rev. Moon and Samuel Jones the Friends society. Mrs. Bierhaus had two papers before the convention, on "Essential Elements of

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and the citizens hastened, hurrying to get nearer the spot before all human aid and succor would be futile. Coming nearer they feared to look to behold the awful sight, but when they did they were treated to a shock so genuine that it became ludicrous. Down on their knees praying with loud voices to heaven were Revs. Chalfont, of Muncie, and'J. C. Williamson, of St. Clairsville, Ohio. Supplication after supplication went up for the good and welfare of Greenfield and entreaty after entreaty was made for Vne good of the wicked citize.ns.who inhabit the place. After they had ceased praying they came down, not wholly oblivious to the excitement they had created, and the first prayer meeting ever held in the courthouse was at an end.

and they will be gone all week. WANTS THINGS EO.UAL The Newcastle Democrat says: R. E. Silver, president of the Knightstown Buggy Co., was before th-e' Board of Review Monday making a strong kick on assessing his company at $'.',! and the Knightstown Gas Co. with twice the capital and twice the profit at .fl.SOO. He says he does not object to his being so high but wants others to

pay in proportion. SENT OUT OF TOWN Marshal Crandall doesn't mind handling' the men who need handling but he doesn't like to have to deal with a woman of the temper of M ibel Keller. The Keller woman was asrested o.i eharges preferred by her step-mother, charged with assault and battery, and when the marshal arrested her she made him dodge epithets of all hues. She was taken before Squire Butler, and the case against her was dismissed on condition that she leave town. She left, and hasn't been seen since.

NEWSY NEWSLETS. THEY LOOK ALIKE T I) e Rushville Republican says: Today as Congressman Watson and his father, E. L. Watson, of Winchester, were proceeding up Main street, more than one person re

marked concerning the similarity exhibited in the features of the

'elder Mr. Watson and those of "Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of j the House of Representatives. Truly, Mr. Watson does i look much ' like Speaker Cannon land might, but for his stature, be ' easily mistaken for him. This is j something of a coincidence as ; Speaker Cannon is a warn personal friend of our Congressman. A LONG AUTO TRIP Mr.

i and Mrs. John S. Cox, Teste jlla 'te, arrived here Sunday eventing in Mr. Cox's I 1 a. t . '. il , a 0 00 Fa c k ard. T" l e . n.i " 7,

hsith Mr. a

' burne, they star;

Dr. and Sirs. J. B. Morrison and three children left yesterday at noon on their trip across the continent to California, where they will make their future home. They will reside at Pasadena. They leave behind them many friends who wish for them unbounded success in the land of the setting sun. Former Postmaster and Mrs. J. Walter Lowry have returned from Paoli, where they spent several days. Mr. Lowry purchased a farm of fifty acres about two miles from Paoli, and expects to move there about the first of July to refide. He is negotiating1 for another farm of a hundred and sixty acres in that vicii.it'. Mr. Lowry will go into the cattle business again. Miss Ruth Roberts, who has been at Duluth.t Minn., the past year as instructor in physical culture in the Y. W. C. A., has arrived home to spend tha summer vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mr. J. fl. Roberts and fami

ly. She wni return to Du'siith this fall, having been unanimously re-elected, at an advanced salary. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Austin, of Pasadena, California, Fred Grab!, of Denver, &d Mrs. Fred Butler, of Richmond, were guests of E. E. Elliott and Mrs. J. II. Pray and families K-t we:k. T! -:y c ae from Richmond in an auto. M. P. . 'r-uneai. of KiL-,ni'-.nrl,

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