The Vernon Times, Volume 8, Number 1, Vernon, Jennings County, 19 June 1919 — Page 1

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o, f t i 2 I .J ) .f I .- 4 I -1 r T 1 MR ; E V E E ET T E E M I S H , COUNTY AUDITOR:---Please answer this 411 est ion! . ths rt on tiK- in your bt'tice a pet'nion sdt'tn d ly several hun tired t-ax payers and voters of 'J e n ii i n Criunty, askim" that certain re pairs "he made nn: the Court House, whick bus neyer been acted upon by the county com tmsioners? us v. hen it was il If th ere led. is tell E01TQH 0: : PLAUIDEAL rtt Lifiiii 1 ii 0;: susj The l'laiti Deafer in its issue of June J2th, In .an arLicie headed, "ATiK THEY AFUAI1) OF THK PKOl'KE" in ita usual we" ; ar:d j.': iab!e manner of trjing t pr ncc s-c 1 e s-ort of reason why the -'Jt'hi f the ; county should not havea right to protect their intcri ts iu our court?!, auioni: other thinga vftys, "On TuB(ia3r, the people of Yertioo fctandln back of John F. Child-, a director of the Fir. t National i'.ank of Vernon, tilctl suit to enjoin the holding of the county scat election," tic. In thin little Hiuitt made in the nlr py the Plain Dealer, it teems that it is important to mention the f:u't that Mr. Chi Ids is a direetor of the FSfst a'ionol Dank of " Vernon, hofa th'.it paper mean to insinuate that persons connect d with a banking inititution at Vernon are the. only persons Interebted in the banking LiifkuM-t r thi.s county, wlio are taking any part in U13 reloetion eoutro-vcri-j V We can see no other motive back of it, tut if that paper is KOing to attack Mr. Child on that ground, it should alao atate that J. D. Cone, President of the First National Hank of North Vernon, Indiana, and Harry Meloy, a diieetor of the First National Pank of North Vernon, Indiana and John Clerkin, President of the North Vernon National think tml several of that bank's directors, are among (he lirs-t who signed a petition three yeais ago asking that an election Le held to vote o ! the question of reloeatihR the eouuty seat of Jennings Couuty. It bhouhl further state that these Hime men are on the o day and iiiht tr; tug to induce the people to vote to "uijove the county seat. Tht?e men ha.e a rhmt to do thoe things tlm if they accomplish their purpose JenningH Couuty will be tiirtii-t in delit to Mich an extent that none of them will ever wee p:ud the debt coutrsetcd on account of re-location. On the other hand, if Mr. Childs and those back of him accomplish their purpose the douniy will ht kept out of any such iiulfhtedues: PEOPLE OF JENNINGS COI NTY, WHO WILE YOU PACK? Joliu F. Chi'.d-i tr the i.ther I ankers mentinufd ubove'.' One uf the things mentioned in the liimsy articles of the poor little Plain Dealt r r-i in effect, that the people wlie oppoite the re-hnation are continually mh-iepre-entitHj lhin!-. Point "ut, Mr. Editor, if jou dare, Koiae iiUsireiresei.itaUotis. Iu this t.-uiie nillf Mjuih the p:.t'r a -, ' Let ns teuiind the gentleman from Vernon who sai-t 'We will rebuild the cuurt lmu in Verona in .pitc of opxnili i. will da o only after lu has Mi'ltd if two-thirils of tl.a voting p"plilalion .f Jennlnga County.'1 We do uat ben Vf we hive ia V t ro-'ii nt.nl we ch&Uri4;e the Edil Di'dkr to divrdue lUftii who ms id that. In t h art'ic any eueh '('r.'Ctisi very respectfully or i.f the Plain the name of the that puccr t ays, 'A!!-.' f dr '. ' j ' thi Pi j 111 i b! - r u on te tr i-n , 't v ii the di?tir t f r and many other rei a ''fair Mr. E!;t-r, p't-w i en c 1 1 i . to Hit' 1 V, v il t I. th-i.-v. :i 1 r:. , ? 1 ... I I H' t. 1 ! V - ' 1 I. J, a by a,i vti -:i he!d n. more residential t u

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, ,vy. mr f i , ' 1 .. " 1 wo I INection itj. J'. 2, U-i IRau year J.eI ..: ' I fcif , an. I t'a ivliy 1 n!-r .Tuwih: ij- ! 1! . " f 1 lei' !K ci"';n'''HE stMt- L?" c8a-.Uri:tr ai tarf vote a any sal-tMUtnrv:-lk n tm txt Hie re-locatiou o!erti in, r f vs of th f-f t that there has bat-n u hu m ! t fr f t- s.addet to the voting j. ul:t i n of ( Vntcr Tnwoship heeau! v i't- .iinxaUoiv tlit-reto of a part of Veruon Township Would you mean !.) Id that up as a sample i f wlut veil trm a fsir t-lect ioriV ! 1, , . r. A . JV10RE m PFST Tllliii inPHOTQ LuUUt) 1 0. . The Nortli Vcrnnw lawyers and cftain North Vernon rt uiovalist-', by their Special County Seat Itsroovv Ihw, arc tluee-year variety perls However the taxpayers delayed this pest in i i eppeaiaeae for six years .t the flrj't election for reinovai. ' i 1 i -Hie ofid d-hy it i.s hoped will completely exterminate thettr They last kpr peaied September 21 itEd;, and 55 per cent of the pt-sif weie in North Vernon; a few have again appeared, -Mr. Tux payer anil Mr. Farmer, if the lemovalir-t j esla fail to remove the. county seat thi time they cmnot rcture. Your good roads will I u her' before they can act aain Think what it vvid incRii Iphtve these pesls removed ai d your geod roads permanently lo.cahd in the county. Tlnse 5 vhL come t you by Apiil 1st, liiUO. r! ht-n vole aginst removal with all jo'ir might J uly 22nd and save y-ur gool ioadp. If thn reimn alitt win yon iwiil ha porry If the reinovaP.sfs :ai! vMiwiiI be t-.rift. lMt is better t-. safe than m try " RESOLUTION OF FEDERATION OF FARMERS WHEIIEAS The ,ide.- oado g f.r the County Seat Itemovid election on July 22nd, lulu coinis nt time when the farmers w id b.i ey bui-y with their harvest, thrhing and th cultivation of their ciop , and at a time when every hour is needed 00 (he farm; And when the world is crying for bread and our government is urging us to produce and to pave, yet it is the patiiotic duty of ev ry legal voter and taxpyr to attend this election and cast a hal'ot fr th? v r best interest of the County. THEREFORE HE IT RESOLVE. That it is the sence of the Jenidnjrs County Ftdfrati.ti! of Farmers as reprttented by th board of oirectors thi3 1 llhday 01 June lul'.i; That evefy threshing machine, ?vry cultivator, evary plow, every mower, all hay harvesting machinery and a'l fa-in opperalions of what ever l alur, $-hi)ld stop on that day long ei oub for every leg! voter to go to hi-i tesnclive pbe of voting atul cast his Inlh.i .) hia important question ( J. M . Ciii Pr.sident Alviii .!arh Stc'y. GOOD ROADS COMMITTEE OF JENNINGS CO, FEDERATION OF FARMERS G. M. Crist, ChrriiiRn Membf-rs V v.nships Alva MiilHi P.iger O. P. M. P.rougher Campbell S. W. Faker . htu.l:a Pat tick vViekeiis C net Albeit Wilds ih ; .eva I". M. Hopkins I tnett G. A. Iewis Marif.n 1" rank Lam an Mo. tg.ci.ery Ira noicuirt - s-id r. t k Jo-ejh llertmaa r-pmecr J. G. Marth , rrm,. The Jennings Co Keder ui-.n f Farmers are already onreeo:d binning the State Ervuts route as t'.e maiu market Highway rrm MaJis) ; to I u l anapolis Janmie Hinchman ami daughter .Margaret of Indbnap.ohs were the guests of hi.-? cousin, Harry Hinchman W dieda v. Mr. and Mrs. Wanen If. Oarret, Mrs. Neely Carson and children motored here from Hanover Sunday and c.iEc l on Mrs. Walter M. Carson and. fa inly and C. C. Jordan and wife.

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in;' f : 1 r S.T J""5U. jHfg, 7 'O"' JI. M:i iiriSE AT ran VFRXOX WdllENtA'EIIm lijillliVAIJSTS j Borne of tn r.easna by ,1 h a .farm- 1 ers are pppoaed to the removal .of the Counly )SeHt and the building of an imnecihsary new CVvurt 1 lonfH at. North Vernon. - . j . A vptv t rntrpp:si ve farmer in &T ! out-township isays 6 years ago he waagain ist removal and did not have a friend far or near that would stand by him In hi convictions. He remair.ed f.iitbful and, saya ' this time , he has ni'jre friends that ar- with him tbuu ever lie thought of bef n ; they now :S -V V o hand yvril'mg.on tin- wall. 1 1 a iyfi iiis'lirst, rtsfioa fjr biiin.opp s d so the removal of the coun?y Hj. m. that the present c urt house U 4 , isuugh for. Jennings, Counly, or a be- county of like mean?Ui4Anr . a-i..( i, 'die prtsentcourt house is p . l"ur( ii.nl. a njsw court honse .wool l c.cal.: .u u lueeaasary indebted; ness of 2-),mhi iu. 5' 100,000 that would j tak been 2" to W.yetrs to pay. A thiid ;er.s;o;i i., tnu rn-wtj.x iaw enacttdai.die.' advu: ctd as.s s ments of re-1 s;:ite would throw th --burden of t txcH ou the farmer , and f.-unh; the ni;;ii tiiim g df a new library thru4 1 ujioo the tax payer f Jennings County i1 an unneceyiaty l.Utden oi" tax on the faun r, a .d n. lliiog jeceiveii in ret u r.:. , n-w things .:,en from the astesaoi's b ;K on iilrt in the Au litor.s otlice wdi pi- e ti at be is eorreet. Any tanner can con ince himself that the! ... . . ourueu oi tr.-i.-a la on the farm3?' whether he owi s a targe larm or a smali one. ror n illusti ation, the assessor's records .f trnon low 1 ship show John Child-, John O. Himpson and wife and Mary and Charlts Ochsheiis are aseeesed f r the jear P)i0 as follows: fohn ('hilda lai.d & improvements 15,4000. Ptiisonal pK peity o90.'l, Tots! 19,30?. Joaa O. ;imp.si.n and wife land & improvements 5,890 Pers .iitl prupul v 2,020 Total 7,910 Mary and Chas- Oehs heit3 laud fc improvements 10,39S Personal primerly 3,031 Total 14,035 Grand Tt,l 4I.24S t The record aino sbnvv that, t.hp fol lowing merchants in North Vernon and their stoet-; of iuerehnndi.se are assessed f.r the ie-o 1919 as fallows: Gumble fc Son Meyer Ad es Tech Rros. H J. Inmuu (Goldmine) H-.'glii h Son E. IU cClure & Co. iiouk Grocery Miles (irorery (U. If.) (fiaud I,tal 110,000 1,500 8,900 3,500 3,500 0,01 10 2 SoO 1,000 37.200 l he grai d ytal assessments ts above sh-wn, are evalrcvs of facts snd that h tijte.- (ar.ners whom every oue 1,, be good thrifty farmer?, not cotiriderfd ex remely ieh yet assessed 4 t'lS mo.e than eight of the largest si. res us Noith Vernon combiued. Tiit s three tarmeis pay a library tax f. r the year 1919 at 10 cents per Inn bd du lara on the above assessor nt ai follows: J- hn ( 'hilds .b tni U. Simps j Si wife Ofhs heirs Total An average of 13 74 each.. Tl e nserehan!- i i j.ay on ses .d mercha dis ti followa S 19.30 7.91 14.03 ?41.24 the as for the year Pd9: Gamble fc .t( Meyer Ao n i . i'h Pro-;. liitsiMM II. J ffmhimsae) E. u. !cCbr ..t Co, Hughes & Son J. A. Iiouk GroceryU. II. Miles Grocery Total An average cf f i 23 each or an age i i.5l of less than the three mentioned f.n pn-rs. 1 his ji!et inn arisen, would tight iuchii.t ext-iuse their 510 1.5il S 90 r a O r ) o ! - m 2 SX) ' 1.00 34,70 H t i' these of lut'ichandlis act! "groceries for ti ' three farm.:, although, the f.irn;-, Lr i assessed for $4 ,04S ui more than their! entire etocfc of gooda. . ' s2d im co p.3ac:iGo3 I

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Act of 191!). See. 12 page 121 and 2'cof the: 1919 acts of the Gen. asenably of Iudiaua, reads follow c: The state highway commission t-hall ?t the earliest-posaible moment, proceed, to. lay out a system of state highway.s which shalPreach each as.d evf 13 county seat of the state and ach nu every ciiy or town of nv-r r.ouo ni-1 3 ahitants; end fr r the, cow tlion of county eeats, and cities t over 0OO0 inh thitaiits wit h uopoved truuk highva3s.of ttrjaining rates aud connecting withsjridj Uuak highways from other states, whereby said trunk high- . ai a of other slates and the connectIr.; highways of this state become cout nnous improved highways. - AM highways heretofore designated v ks. in market highways by the state L ihv.'ay commission, acting under an - - eniiUtd." an act creating a state I ;hway commission providing (or the construction, reconssruction, maintenance, repair aud control -of' pnhlic hi ;hv ay.siind prjvidiug for co-opera-lion - ith the fetleral government in tl.-ec structLon f rural pott Roads", ap-ufoved JMarch 7, 1917, shall be state highways within the meaning of this act and fchall ha improved and maint " . r.s f-t ute highways under this act E ' ej if designated a.3 state highr this act. - When any part -..1 system shall- have been laid out by the state highway com mis sin anil shall have been approved by the governor and shall have been fited in the oilica of the state highway commission, highways of said system ehall pecome and he known under this act as btate highways and from that time hail be constructed, reconstructed repaired and maintained by the state highway commission out of the state highways funds. A state highway within the meaning of this act is b public highway selected aud designated under the provisions o"f this act for construction, repair or maintenance by the state highway commission out of the funds created by this act. The 8tate highway commission shall have laid out a sudicient mileage of state highways by APRIL I, 1020, to leach each and every county seat of the state, The same shall be approved by the governor and tiled in the ofhee of the state highway commission by APRIL 1,1820. The last general assembly of Indiana, Acta of 1919 gives every county as well as Jennings county a chance to secure about no miles of paved or hard surface highways under the stab highway System. Under this aj'stem the county will pay for one half of the 'building of the said 00 miles of hard surface roads. Thereafter they will be mamtained by 5 the fctate, a big thing for Jennings': county to go after, and go after quick. This will give us a National and State Highway from Seymour to Versailles by the way of Hayden in Spencer township, North Vernon, Center township, Vernon, Vernon township, Campbell township, probably touching Eutlerville and Nebraska as outlined now. Also under the state highway system by chancering Columbus and Madison by the way of the State road touching Seipio and Queensvide in Geneva township, North Vernon over state street and through Vernon Vernou tovfnstiip near Gray ford and Champion and thence through Lovett township to Dupont. Also bj' connecting the conntv seat at Greensburg thus c mnceung this system of road at North Vernon; thence runnirg north through Sand Creek, township v.nd probably Columbia township to the county line thence to Greensburg. One of the most important roads und - r VAi j " t r " 1 is the o n e to fieo 1 1 - t ;r : ttt n Vernon through .Vernon On A 1 , Ljvctt, Montgomery and d;,. n,-kir..3 to the Scrdt Countv Sir . . V El t i'cottsbiug; thns uuitin ty i-eats Vernon a ad tL!j state highway system . County unit syitera the acts

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of 1919 allows the Countv to bui'tl County pikes and pave jo-m!-, while heretofore" the tovrnshi a -alone 'built the road? Pv the Countv unit ss:ein any part or township iu the county c be connected with the state Na Uo Ma! .system throughout the couuty ua heretofore stated ' 1 Since the-?etatand National acta the highway system on roads must l a determined and laid out before ApH 1. P2tand bs on ii le in the ofliee the ftsie highway commission, an , built thereafter as the countv can rifford it, It behooves good r ads uoosier? 10 get t)tnirif ttie executive committee of the Jen :,ir g ( o 11. ty Farmers Association t- tr.-t t,. u of th's .stkl highway rads as .-i-ble. ! ?- . i ." Don't let North Vernoi, buyers and certain removaiists put yen oil from filing petitions to e-ecure theee road?, organize, and through the Countv luafmers AeKreiation ask and demand this, idea! sysem ofstiteai; National, roads. No grerter bt nefit" r ould come t th county than to have tLi s Fyst-iu of roads "laid out and to be built-as sc. ... rShd.aa fast uh tUa tiisicy is'" "a vaihd "k. Se-reral of the North' Veraremov - alists said thoy juiut get the" coubty scut relccstad iiow or never, tbey must beat the farmeis to their roads. Heuc- the railing of the relocation election, Jnty 22, 19i:. i.V jumping into the ejection at i this time the removaltst admit there will not be enough money to build a revv Courtly Library at North Vernon and a New Court Hous e at North Vernon and at the same time secure the state !,igh.-.ay r is, w Inch the Jennings County Fhj L -are entitle c to. The same removalists brE. thf farmers will be busy in llidi i arvct on July 22 and will not come out to vote. Rut the farmers beat them in 1913 on their 1 elocution proposition and they will beat them much worse July 22, 1919oathe same proposition. Moreover the roads will probably be dry and at their best on July 22nd, 1919 and the removalists believe the Farmers will forget the bad and worn out roads cf Jsst wiuter and spring, and will not have the bad roads of last winter in mind July 22, 1919. In other words the removalists selected the btst possible time for the North Vernon Lawyers to get iu their licks on you, it being in vacation of the Circuit Court of Jeuniuga County and beiog-harvest season, the Worst time forthe farmers. This arrangement for the electicn n: lllltrO IOTO toWa Ilia . A v o r. t Q a cf the farmer The North Vernou Tjawrf rin rpmnii.t, afraid of the Farmers' votes, because the farmers' votes largely defeated the removalists in 1913. 80 removalists do not try, "To harness the masses to keep the classes." A number of the farmers from Co lumbia Township are appearing before the County Board of tax equalization this week- You may be next, as the baard has summoned many farmera to appear. Wonder if they are ge.tiiig their assessment reduced. Thos. J. staples, John II. Rogers, and T. 8. Lett of Marion Tp. are assessed for 77,940.00 in Jennings County alone. They pay $77.94 to the counfy iibrary support fund. la tea years this would purchase a very fine library at the Mo? ley high school, a place tvhere the tax payers of the township would get library service. We bet they won't make a sworn fclatement that they are in favor of rsloeation and a a ndw courthouse at North Vernon, The-"e are nolthe only frmeis in the count' v? ; fte-1 that way. Every township,, even , e ti i s; r , ti 3 ju5v 6 u c il , that cad t ::? the t. -t 'b of merchandise rs si 3 n 1 y the itcords end still I,;- i.d-y Efi. They too will not make sworn statement? of their desire foi a nw court boo S3 in North. Yemen.

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Are they, afraid of the per UV Plaindealer June ' 9Lh,A cswer THE: PEOPLE ARE A F.RAI 11 OF TIj CM' ' NORTH VERNON LAWYERi AND C iC ETA I N REMOV ALISTS. The Jietrop -iii of Jennings. County North Vextru ) i.vfcts'such sudden 'growths the.e iy m iking it very dangerous to the x 1 ayers cf Jennings Couuty, th;.-. k etrupolis, including Center townfihip east a total vote in th? yaar of 1912 of 9.J4 "votes and in the Court b ih - election li!3 cast a total vote of lb. . 55 percent t! the entire Renii.vusta vote in" the County?Thia namo Mttropo.'is cast' a total Vote in

thf-,ear 19! 1 of h';-5 for congre'ssraan or lo ; LESS than in the year 1C13,' in th.- t s.r' 19E bast a, total vote t f 1111 . r (,, Hwrs than iii th yeir 131.3; in the y-ur 191S a total f 913 vot'iio"r264 less ttniu iii the year 1913, notwithstai ding that iu 19p; an area of 4 square nuies was added to Center township with a lrobabl'e vote of 00. !s the above Vernon Propoganda r Vrn m Rot or the naked truth? Mr. tax payer tearch the iecords for o.ji--e.f Sir. tx payer if you lire a tjueatioa at thes-e jemovaiists of North t r., oh that will Jiit them right iu to- e,es the yell Hot h rO.J tf?e Pro- !. , i.d;i x i .-mprrmu Cpu.t Sustained the St -. 1.1! law at the it location of the - it .'iy mu-iy uionths ago, why was It ! bit !ir!!i:i(.i o; J. TJ. CCne- - t.nd fithr 0 t hi i h , x ( ir 1910 on July 3rd whs 111,1 - -W viaiiii the required. 10 d v .; and th. oummivsioners set the eei-..( i -1 v.itfctin 90 day?, the fact 1 lne dut.t the county fair had not ountv attornev in hi . . . 1 . lli; o -''.- l; c c;(. mtiiissioners at the May lerm -.bei the date wa set find the entry pj spared by the obliging C.tlnty r.ttorilrd foi t:.e Iip!pieS3 County bi.id of c.;i.:iii.-io;iers paid j 't is 10- w cA before the Couuty ' fait" Itavhig iu miod the fm-:. it was t'c i.h ui tune u eel for llu election, I he aI.s-. bad it liguu-d out U,at in the event a emm f !.;.. r'-.i,i,c(i b. attend ; Ul - 1:0 ii - v.oi.to t t that h could not j eiheu b. in. s-;i- a day ti. vote and iu the t next v.eei. ion trit-r day to go to the fair also thai Thicshiug machines would bo humming, icapera singing, and dust Hying in the corn held, roads the beet of the year, the farmer interest confined to the care of the diflerent things and the result would be 'that mauy voles aginst removal would be ?ost in this way. It has been rej ortcd to the farmers that attempts have t een made .to ge: certain thresherinen to ruu their outfits on the day of election iu order that voters could be kept from the poles. The vote of 1913 shows the ellect of a Carnival troops in North Vernon on the day of election, wonder if you conhl see FAIR iu U. returns of 1919. or can Seymour, iv.utavjlie, Stieibyville and Columbus been tc-u iu the returns on that dai "? "We have entered this tight with c'enn bauds Plain dealer," watch out the farmer is aiaiinU at both eyes he belongs to an organization this time. A well tried and lioisitss County oihciai of 2 yea rtt agof equally as noisless lad campaign) , says be has been foiced iuto the camp aign as a hot movie by rotten propograndtv and mistreatm'-nt of the Vernon people his office terminates January 1st, 1921 at time will ba sold at auction by the farmer nd tax payeis of the county. The clean handed Pia'ndeaier. says that North Vernon was forced into this election by Judge Carhey m askiLg far Buch extensive repah;at. other farmer has been tnbghlened his clever investigation and be untrue. thing the upon by foucd lo CHILDREN'S' DAY The union Child rens ! exetpiaa held Sunday evening at the Preifcy teriaa church was an iatere&'tiog service at.d was enjoyed by a dare congreg-ttion. IkslJes the sir.gu.g b the choir the princial part of the progiara conslatfcd of aa tiathrsa't ieve, "The Carni v. Ly a n ?.r o r. :.i w; tof rlowets, fta;trni t e vrr i -; 1 committee.