The Vernon Times, Volume 8, Number 3, Vernon, Jennings County, 3 July 1919 — Page 1

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& ft. t ti I recently received a ccpy .f the North Vraon Hun, which T suppose waj stnt me In order to give my tsuppart tu the removal of the Court Mouse to North Vernou from Vernou. Qaile a number of my farmer frleruta received copies along with jme. The r.'orth Vernon llemovalists must thiuk we are "lioobs" or b&ck-wood-uien and doa't ever think fo? Brother farmer, what would you tblfifc if you owiiftl a flaa ratijaJou on a nlc farm, p&id for, mud this luansiou nded cleaniss sad palntiust aud a few iniuor touches and reuovfetlug, if some felSow would come to you and insist thai you abandon the firm ami house, buy a tiw farm and erect a ticer house, at the eame time tell you thrt It would h chtaper than tocieau aud renovate the one you owned and had paid for and abandon the farm with it? You would know that tola man wHh his argument was either a fool or else Jook you to be a fool. You would let him know that you could think for yourself and bsl not asked tdiu to do your plana i eg. TM is exactly what the North Vernon people ar trying to do. They are tiying to fool the people iuto bs)Uiir that a new court house will cost Uss than lepairs to tha old one whta aav man with the brains of a rat Lilt knows better. I'll admit It would be nice for the North Vernon .Lawyers to have a new Court Housa ct North Vetnon; but Mr, l.avijfr vLtn you compliln atout tLacUca yea Lave to go to your work or tli tntnt couit house to trssr.:t yur business, tbt,i tInk how 1 at the average farmer waia ia a tisy plowing corn. In a field one bfttf mile tang if he :lows oaly 20 row a day he will have walked ten miles and some two or tcore miles to and from hia work. ,Mr, Lawyer. th!a makes your jauct from North Verne a to Vcruon a pienic in comparison BesWes dozens of farmers wives wIt; a fit ta H i.a from Vernon to N. Vernon twice &ca day after thtir cows, acd no expredion of tympathy given them by the movies what ever. Jtiatthiok if Vernca and North Vernou were consolidated as Indaa,f!ii and her auburta the distance between tLa. two places would bs little thought of. Another thin, the Sua dc-i't i .:r.t ta kt.-.r' th "tbLa is tiding t I " ;.'-. t. .ih.vl ij l.tlp tix i jycrs s . ri s kc. p the curt Lou e vl." : L x - r ILc editor of tl: Ytrncn . ) ai.d 1 :. I. Tt2pp, men tht re ku j u for th; ir f-tt-r'.U. .? cl;xrt.:tf re n J I s tt- j "Vt'.'.;.- r "'t"nl fr" U U II ) f t I' ' ' :i i tr ;i 1 1 i :I cn th-Lr th -A: z c .4 . f.r; ; : l Lnuv lh: t North I v r ti ' . : i i th?y .z l ll.cir lrif t f. irs at it ill!, 'r j to I'. .? I '.1 5 ra:v fUn, a Ford i:.. i , i t to . Nciih Vemoa ti & li . If lha Vtrta Yc a vtniG-a -lovies tra

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fF !! ft I tit 4 ' ' .i 1 e ) j tt si 1 iJ if. 1 1 i 't t I il !4i I It gt it bliii everything in fciht for thtir little three cornered "Licksklllet" town. Last but not least Brother Farmer lets keep the court house at Vernon its such a convenient place. When tax paying time comes around the wife or daughter can drive to Vernon, and save us a busy day which means so much In the eprlog planting and fall harvesting also the dread of a burdensome tax for an unnecessary New court houae. Besides you can go there safely from trains and noise. Wouldn't it be line instead of an election to move the court, house we could have sn election and all vote to move the Lawyers from North Vernon to Vernon, wouldn't that b eueaper" if thai could be true it would not be long until the Lawyers would raise a tremendous racket aed try to move the whole of North Vernon down toVernon, bntthey are trying to make all creation think that it would cost the farmers less to move the court houre to North Vernon than it would to move the Lawyers to Vernon and pay the expense of moving. Now the writer of this article anticipates and will feel deeply disappointed if she doesn't get a slam from the North Vernon Editors' able pen, telling us we are "yellow dogs" In their next edition. 131 A Xss 5 L " 1 5taD 11 Fcr Infants and:Ch.H&ren In Una Fcr0vcr2OYear Always bears '7 M , the Signature TOO FEW USE THEIR BRAINS Result Truthfully May Ce Said to Be the Greatest Watts In Xhm World. The recent Invention which renders wireless transmission independent of atmospheric conditions and the discovery by which seven messages can !? seat simultaneously over a telephone wire are striking instances of latent possibilities long unsuspected. For thousands of years we did not even suspect the existence of electricity, and, being ignorant, derived no advantage from It. If we had never heard music, we wo-' ,, say it was merely the dreara of a sS :.: , leton to expect the most beautiful I. i rinony of sounds from a combinatiia of wood, intestines of.a dead est and hairs from the tall of a horse. E-t the violin, plus the man who knows how, accomplishes the wonderful result. Active talent is the source of both fi'jsntlty and quality of production, and that does not lie la capital but Li ien, and it usually is latent. Every man has power and courage, but not all of them know It. David had it, and knew it, and licked Goliath. Fock was cot plucked from the "four tun-ired." And Lincoln came froia a log est la. Nt only once ia a while, but very often, nature takes a particularly "raw" bit of material- asd shows what is in It. It is a sg-estioa for use to do likewise with ourselves. The greatest waste ia"itie world la th.3 unused Lr&Lzs.

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In the issue of the Plain Dealer under date of June otb, 1910, the P. ward of Commissioners of Jennings County makes a statement which is a remarkable admission of the dereliction of the former Boards, (and the preseat one as well) in the performance of pubi'e duty, They etale that the present court house ia in a very bad condition ami that the lepairs asked for by certain petitioners in a petition riled five orjnix years asro are eery one needed aud should be made. The fctatutes of thi3 .State make it the duty of the Board of Commissioners to keep the public buildings in repair, yet, notwithstanding, the present Board, in an open statement, conftssts that the public buildings have been permitted to get out of repair, and that for six years, repairs, which it admits were needed, have not Inert made, The statement confirms what every one has long known, viz: that certain North Vernon citizens have, regardless of politics, seen to the election of Commissioners who would not make necessary repairs to the existing pnbKc buildings, but would deliberately let them go to decay in the hone that by so doing a new court houae would some day be needed and that in that event relocation at North Vernon would be facilitated. It is about time for the tax payers of Jennings County to wake up and realize how thfir interests have been neglected in this matter for a long period of years. A stitch in time tsves nine, and by the simple and economical process of making a few inexpensive repairs from time to time, the tax payers of Jennings County can save the expenditure of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars for new buildings. If six years ago Jennings County had been bonded to the extent of 1150,000,00 for new buildings the int erest upon that sum would by this time have amounted to at least 43, 000.00, a sum three times as great a3 the amount then asked for repairs. In other words, the. present buildings could have been adequately repaired for one-third of what the interest alone would have amounted to and the tax payers saved not only 00,000.00 in interest charges but also the pri cipal of $ 150,000. 00. By votiDg against relocation in 19K$ the tax payers have already saved the county, in interest charges aloue, an much more than sufficient to make adequate repairs to tue existing buildings, and they will now find it to their Interest to insist that the memters of the Board of commissioners utilize that saving dy a proper performance of their official duty in maintaining the public buildings of the County fn reqalr. FIVE PASSENGER FORD AUTOMOBILE To be given away Saturday October 9th, 1915 at 4 p.m. Ask any of the North Vernon merch ants about the automobile, who will give you full information ami pnrtie. ulars. Don't fail to ask about the Ford car, if ycu don't you wi'l miss something. It costs nothing to try, some one is going to get it. No merchant or employee of any stores will be allowed to draw this Automobile. Plain Dealer, Thursday Sept. 2oth, 1915. The farmers of Jennings County have not forgotten who drew the machine, and yet the North Vernou Sun and the Plain Dealer are coatinually harping on the misrepresentations in the Vernou Times. The Vernon People have the first time to advertise a thing and then go square back oa the deal. If they have a gifl to make they make it. The above article is true,' some cue is going to get it," b ut it did cot go to a farmer as the advertisement would have you read it. Now the fact is this belongs to their method, they can't deny it. If they do such thiug in 1 ; 1 5 wouldn't they do it in 1319 if the game chance was oliered? Vhe North Vernon Movies Ere men cf great intellect, found judgment and above all ABSOLUTELY TllCriiFUIi IN ALL THEY rJAY AND PUBIJ3U ia the two papers cf the GIICAT METIlOPOLie. TLasbove is claimed by thtir k'ers.

: 1 i Ax -Mi. J. 1. Bov.-yer, a properous farm er of Sand- Creek township, answers th'b article In the Phau Dealer Thursdjy June "Hh, 1919in which Mr. J. YV. Tcvley of Ket io, (Jeneva township is jJiotei. Mr. llowycrs sas that he has been P . r :j o i 1 1 y a t ' juaint e d w i I h Mr. J. W.roohy for the p:-t 4 3 cars, aud says that Mr. Tooloy lus never been resrce.i as a very pro.-pc-roiu and progtfibive farmer. That Mr. Tooiey is a better taiker I bun a bujine.s man .nd ivir. Lowyer would like to know how it is thai Mr. Tooley wlc is J;oL a progressive farmer can have tvnu h weight t nd iulhicncc in advising, the vou r ami especially the farmers-as to sv hut u progressive farmer should do mhI how he should vt'te in regaids to his best' intereit ia the Court House matter. Mr. Bottjer taya that lie knows or at ica.-t has :t knowlerlgo of what tha constructio t oi a ht v .and 'untecsssary court boufce would co;t and that the building of a -new and uiinccesary Court licusy at this time wouM be u&eiess. iVir. liowjer sas that he' kuows thero is a liaiit t tlie bended indettdue&s of any County, and' that nectssaiy new' reads are much more needed than no unneceisary Court htHi.se; that gooil roads would benellt many more tax p:yer and. the county in general thin aa unne.ieesary oxpendi.tureof f -Sou.ooo m to $!;oo,(hm.uo for a i;ew coijtL houe at Noith. Vernon. - - The buildim: of a new comt hoiue w( nid limit the bonded hidebtdncss of Jennings Couiity so thut the fsrmer would be deprived of goed rosds Utv the nest 25 years. Mr. -iwyer father say a that ifrt'ikes trom 0 "W "i0 iniuute.s longer to reach Vernon than it doe.s North Vernon from his home in Sand Creek Township and Mr. liowyer thinks" that the extra taxes be would have to pay for the buiidiog of a new court house at North Veruon would be many timts more expensive than the extra time spent in reaching the present court house from which to transact his business. Mr. Eowyer says that he way in Jennings CVmtdy in th? year liiin and at that time the North Vernon removaliRts stated to him that the present Court house was ready to full down and was unsafe far us? by the county cfl'iCiala and at that lime Iih a? some what inclined to removal .but upon bis personal investigation found the court house way in condition to last for many, many years to come notwithstanding the fact that North Vernon has influenced the ecmmi.-siouera in such a way that they have neglected and refused to epecd iny money to wards the legitimate upkeep of the present Comt house, tun lie believes is for a pur pc seHe verifies his assertions from the fact that the pieseut courthouse withstood the Tornado two years ago. and cams out with less damage than did the newly modern built buildings of jjorth Verno). Mr. llowyer wonders how and why it is that the commissioners have not used the money collected from the insnrai.ee Company in cleaning up the stains and damage cau.-ed by water at the time of the storm Mr. Bowyer believes that the removalists' statements are true that the present court house is uucican, and that the corumi-f inters have Jailed to do their duty as f -mmifr-ioners of the county to protect the county building by not spending this insurance money for cleaning the building. Mr. lowyer bcowa the building business he was formerly a contractor and builder and can net be deceived by the statement that the Court house is smp'e for the use by the County fcr many yeajs to come. He knows the uuildir g of a new Court'House at North Vernon would be an unjust tax buiden i n live tax payers fcr years to eonj H. R. CARHEY I Iff W 4- it H? Vernon, !nd.

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THE GiiKl ISSUE . . jye belie ve.that Mr. Everet Ilemir-h, Auditor of Jennings County, and Jamts Runtitiirton, ,s;l eritl' of Jenn-i inp County under their oaths as County otiicia's told tl truth us to what the .;nestions of election on July 22?,d, 1919 aie:I i For Relocation at North Vernon. Indiana Against Relocation at North Vernon, Indiana. Ho when the removalists my the question is t i build a New Court itouse at North Vernon, Indiana, you eee that the law does not nay so, neither does the noce of election say so. You see that the removalisits have not told the truth, and such tuik that a new court house at Vernon if relocation fails ia only t- deceive the taxpayer, to try to gain votes for removal. The removaitsts gave such talks in lid;;. The removalists tried to make that the Knee then acd they went down in defeat - on September 22nd Pd: aud will go down in worse defeat on July 22nd, Pl). What is thii main ius.' It is as follows, "Cc-rtaiu North Vernon Lawyers and Ileal Eslst owners in North Vernon want a new court house at North Von. on at the expense of the tax payers and more particular ily the farmer tax payer of Jennings County; That i3 the main issue in a nut shell, "Now crack it if you cnu." .Judge W. B Ketcham rendered a decision ia the injunction suit Wednes. day morning in favor of the defendant. The decision doe not mean that Judge Ketcham favors the building of a new eourt house or the relocation of the county seat. The decision pimply means that the voters of the county have a rijlit to vote on the question of relocation. Of the insurance money received two years ago from the Icsuracce Coffiv&ty fjr damages done to the court house about S-".") 0o was used for repaua. Some ?'irOo 00 lies idle in the vault?, but why, no oue can Ull. D.d they make a hdce sUiement of the damages done to the building by the tornado? If not why do they not use the money for cleaning the walls or else return the balance to the Ia euratcs Company. The evaaceiistic iiieettn'8 nt tbe Baptist Church have bean very tucceisful in reviving the christian people and in couvcrsioLS. Rev. Mr. aud Mr.3 II R. Rerrell have manitl-ttd a splendid spirit, have worktd bard and have luade the services inteie;din- aud helpful more than a dozen have preferred conversian and four ethers have been received by letter, will continue Kundsy.

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f f V 3 1 ... iff "-ijji .- O X f ' ? r'r" SJ lu U ill, fc J w SALE ; J M Indiana OBITUARY Pleasant W. Randall Pleasant Wildey Randall.il I ou of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Randall was born September 16, 1837 in Clark County and departed this life, June 2", 191:1 at "The Soldiers Home," Marion, Ind. at the age of si ycara aud i months, liis early life was spent in Clark County later be came to Vernon, Ind. where he met and married, Miss Alice Stott. ills married life was spent in Vernon, his wife bavins? precedad him in death several years ao. The later years of bis life were tpent iu North Vernon, until a few mouths ago when he went to Marion, Ind. He was loved by all who knew him. He leaves to mourn his Icsd one sister, Mrs. Lizzie King of North Vernon, several relatives and a bust of friends. The remains were hurried in the Vernon Cemetery after brief funeral seryiees couducUd by Rev. Chesley Holmes.-. Mrs. Charles Rayburn Mrs. Charles Rayburn of North Vernon died Sunday morning, June 2Hh, at tne age of 23; yrs. Funeral services were conducted at the North Vernon Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon by the pastor, Rev. Davis. The editor of the North Vernon Sun has arrived at the point that about ail he can say i, ' that the Vernon publicity committee are Yrl!ow Rogs." But there was not a single Slacker in the town of Vernon when he was erviu;r Lis country as a soldier and our country was at war. There was Hot a single mau in Verfon that was willing to see this editor made into cannon fodder, but every man stood back of him. The above remark shows how much he appreciate his fellow man and the patriots of of his home town. He may say, ss he haj paid before that he did not write tbe article, but be will be held directly responsible f-r its appearance in hi paper. MR. EVERETT BEMISH, COUNTY AUDITOR: Please answer this (juestion! Is there on file in vour oSIce a : iJC u i,JU neu uy several Hun dred tax pa-ers and voters cf Jennings County, asking- that certain repairs be mads on the never county Court House, wh been acted upon by the comraissioners? If there is, tell us it '.vat r. ' r ,-,

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