The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 January 1924 — Page 4

TU DAILY BAJfK*a, QRXXVGASTLE, INDIANA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 192 4.

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HALF PRICE 33i-25^ OFF Our stock of Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes—fine furnishings included. This sale is saving hundreds of dollars for the people of this community. The crowds that bought here yesterday were pretty happy about it. There’s a great selection of fall and winter goods here to choose from; you’d better get yours early. We’ve made these sharp reductions to clean house in a hurry. If money saving on fine goods is any object these prices ought to do it. Here’s what 1-2 price means $35 clothes are now $17.50 $43 clothes are now $20.03 $59 clothes are now $25.30 S. C. Prevo & Sons

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BELLE UNION Miss Mamie Hollingsworth has returned to her school in Frankfort, after spending the holidays with her parents, J. W. Hollingsworth and

wife.

Everett McCammack and family in Indianapolis. Melvin McCammack and wife spent Wednesday night with Fred Sinclair and family in Cloverdale. A. O. Alley and family were Xmas visitors with relatives in Lebanon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hurst spent Wednesday night with Oliver Stringer and family. Master Joseph Scott of Greencastle visited the past week with J. H. Scott and wife. G. G. Hill and family of Greencastle, visited at A. A. Hills Thursday. Mrs. Daisy McCammack and and daughter Sarah visited V. B. McCammack and w-ife Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Lloyd and children and Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Castle and Bro. Hall of Indianapolis, were Sunday guests of J. H. Scott and

wife.

Maurice Moser returned home Sunday, after spending the week with his grandmother in Greencastle. Mrs. Ellen Raikes is visiting relatives in Greencastle. Oliver Stringer and children spent Sunday with P. H. Wallace and wife. Roscoe Hill and wife returned to their home in Lebanon, Tuesday, after visiting his mother, Mrs. Alpha Hill and daughter. Mrs. C. F. Buis is very low at this writing. Mrs. John Mabb, who is confined to her home the results of a fall received a few weekes ago, remains about the same. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McCammaock and Mrs. Frank Hurst spent Christmas wdth David Scott and family. Harry Allen and family, of Greencastle, were Sunday guests of Dr. Mosers. Mrs. Dora Day called on Mrs. Lewis Keller, Saturday afternoon.

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! OPENING UP A NEW COUNTRY

Territory of Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Being Developed by Aid of Caterpillar Tractor. A territory covering 18,000 square miles, which Is only GOO miles south of New’ Orleans and reported to be almost unknown, has been Invaded by an American caterpillar tractor. This territory, twice the size of Massachusetts, possessing vast unexplolted natural resources, practically without population and nearly 300 miles from north to south, possessing a coast line of probably twice that length, Is called the Territory of Quintana Roo, Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. The government Is territorial, the capital Is Santa Cruz de Bravo, a town of about 2,r>00 midway down the Mexican Gulf coast and most of the remainder of the 0,000 population are located in the villages of Payo Obispo, Cozumel and Recalar. Modern transportation facilities are non-existent, but the advent within the past month of the caterpillar tractor In the forests of Quintana Roo is the Initiation of the development of Its soil, which Is claimed to be suitable for the production of corn, cotton, beans, coffee, indigo, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, sweet potatoes, pepper, vanilla, henequen and tropical fruits, In tills rich and unexplored section.

We wish Our Many Friends a Happy New Year and thank them for their generous patronage J. K. Langdon & Co.

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Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McIntyre and Mrs. Emma Walls and Carl Walls, of CJreencastle, visited Sunday with Mrs. Anna Woodall. Harold Gill, of Indianapolis, visit«d at home over the week-end. Birch Sackett, a Monon railway train man, visited Sunday with his family.

Kathleen Cash, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia, is improv-

ing.

The engine of a north bound freight was derailed while entering the passing track in the south end of town about 5:30 Saturday evening. It blocked traffic for three hours. The evening passenger trains due here at 5:41 transfered passengers and baggage and proceeded backwards to their terminals.

Howard Appleby is suffering from tonsilitis. , Miss Helen and Emma Gene Cossell of North Liberty, who have been spending the holidays with their aunt -Mrs. C. C. Baker, returned home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Knight, ol Greencastle were Cloverdale visitors, i Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vestal, of Crawfordsville and Mrs. A. D. Snyder and daughter Virginia, of linden, visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ves-1 tal. John and Harry McNary, of La- 1 fayette, who have been, visiting their aunt, Mrs. Challis Gobel, went Sun- j day to visit their uncle, Forest Me-1 Nary, near Mt. Meridian. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Snider attended the funeral of the former’s cousin, Mrs. Stella Baker at Spencer, Saturday. The Parent-Teachers Association will meet next Wednesday afternoon at 1:40 in the gymnasium. The program will be in charge of Mr. Knoy and Miss Goodwin, who will demonstrate some of the things being done in the physical training classes. Estes Duncan, of Indianapolis, spent Sunday at home.

Commonplace. There was u girl In New York city who had been working for eight years without n vacation. She was thin, white, and her shoulders were stooped. She had an old mother dependent upon her, and for eight years she had been tollftig to free their home from the Incubus of debt. One night she took an “elevated” home. In her hand she tightly clutched an envelope. She ran all the way up Die street and could hardly turn the dooh-knoh. She hurried Into the room where her mother sat and dropped the envelope Into her lap with a sob. The mother opened It and discovered that It was a canceled mortgage. The debt was paid. Just a commonplace girl—that was all. But oh! the beauty of that sacrificial love for her mother 1

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GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT NEWCOMERS FROM THE “CON MEN."

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LATTER FREQUENTLY ALIENS

By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington.—A good many Immigrants come to America to exploit this country, hut It Is also certain that some Americans succeed in exploiting some Immigrants before they have been long on these shores. The government’s attention has been called to many cases of the swindling of Immigrants which would | be laughable if they were not In a i way tragic. Means are to be taken to I prevent the Immigrants from becoming victims of Americans who know what they want and how to get 1L It Is only fair to say, however, that In some cases of fraud practiced on the newcomers the swindlers are not Americans, but are natives of the country of the exploited, men who have been here long enough to learn a few tricks and who already know how best to attack the weak points of their fellow countrymen. Not long ago a half interest In the Pennsylvania railroad was sold for $500 to two ignorant Immigrants who hail not been long In this country before they were parted from their money. James J. Wilson, who Is a deputy assistant district attorney lu New York, has said that more than $12,000,000 has been obtained from Immigrants by what Is called the “under ; water lots swindle." The Immigrants are sold real efetate which they are told la productive and finely located. When they go to look for their new (•ought possessions they have to sound for them some distance down under !

tide water.

Real Estate Swlndleai Many pieces of real estate are sold to immigrants who first are shown the property. The property Is real, and the Lmmlgrants parf with their money only to find later that the land be- n lenge to somebody other than the j - man who sold It. Frequently, however, men w1w> have an Interest In property sell it to Immigrants who later find out that the lots which they have bought are heavily mortgaged. In eases of this kind the sellers usually ask for comparatively small amounts of money, the reason being that they desire to keep the sum received under the grand larceny limit so If they are caught they cannot be sent to prison

for felony.

Immigrants are not the only ones

who ore the easy victims of swindlers through games which It would seem that any person with a trifling amount of common sense would understand

were frauds pure and simple. When the w riter was a reporter on

a Chicago dally he wrote a true story of a Michigan farmer who “bought" the Masonic temple in Chicago, valued at some millions of dollars, for $13,0G0, making a $">,000 cash payment for the building to two men whom he met on the street. He agreed to go hack home to get the remaining $8.<><»0 which he was to pay for the structure and to report at the same street corner the next day. Somebody In his home village heard of it and communicated with the police. The Michigan man was saved $8,000, but his

$5,000 was gone.

Paid to See Building Turn.

Years ago In Chicago scores of visitors from here, there and elsewhere paid anywhere from 50 cents to $1.50 each to see the Masonic temple “turn round.” The twenty-storied temple was at that time a show place. I Men would approach obvious strnugers on the street who happened to be | looking at the structure to tell them ' that it was a building wonderfully I contrived mechanically and that It ' would turn on a vertical axis at the i touch of a button. They would collect the “sight fee,” saying that they would go In and touch the button. That was the last seen of them, hut the victims would wait for a while to feast their eyes on the vision of a twenty-storied structuro making an

“about face.”

Everybody thought that this old game was a dead one, but within a week a visitor to the city of Philadelphia paid $5 to see the city hall turn on its axis. Ben Franklin, however,

Would you save 14 cents a day to have $50* next December? r T r HAT is exactly what you can do by joining our Christmas Club. If you save 14? cents a day, paying dues of $1 per week, we will pay you $50 next December. You can join for a smaller or a larger amount, as you wish. We have classes of membership to suit everyone’s means. Central co^’n) Resources, $900,000

Electricity for , Light Cooking and Power

We wish you A Happy New Year

Wabash Valley ^ Electric Co.

Appliances Supplies Repairs Phone 404

Our best wish for you is that you do not have a wreck, but if you do, re member our wrecker is at your service throughout the year, day or night

Phone 68

Iranklin Street Garage A. R. CHENOWETH, Prop.

Cremona Varnish Re-Discovered. A maker of stringed instruments in Italy lias discovered the secret of the renowned varnish of Cremona violins which used to give to the old Instruments their marvelous sonority. He found the secret In an Italian manuscript dated 1710 and states that It Is made with certain resinous substances and is not soluble in alcohol. The varnish was invented by the brothers Y’an Eyck and used by their Flemish

Devotion With a Limit Few of the boys at the club had met Cuthbert’s better half. Hoffy, being one of the few, was called upon for Information. “Has Cuthbert a devoted wife?” ? “As the times go, you might say to.” Whereupon, being asked for an explanation, be proceeded to explain: “She won’t cook breakfast for him, but she always joins him downtown

successors. From Holland the secret

— — ——>.3. a-imi&iiii, uowever, ^ making was brought to Italy by who surmounts the structure, refused Allton « 1 b> da Messina, and It became to turn his back on the visitor who, ltnown to the Cremonese through after watching for a while, told hla sorne P“>>iter In the Sixteenth century,

woes to the police.

in time for dinner."

Good Football Material. “I hear your boy has entered college, Hiram,” said Jehlel. “Yea,” assented the other, “How Is he dolngT” asked the

friend.

“The professors say his skull Is too thick to get anything through," answered the father. “Dh, ha.” •But, of course, that makee him • ■tar la feotbalL"

A good many of the men and women who swindle immigrants are persons who come from the same general locality In the old country as that j from which the victims hall, it is very easy for them to get acquainted with the newcomers, asking as they do about certain places In the old land and occasionally about certain persons who happen to be known In common. Americans going to Baris fight shy of Americans who try to scrape their acquaintance. There are plenty of Americans In the city of Burls who make prey of their fellow-

citizens.

Loose but Harmlee*.

An Englishman was paying his first visit to Scotland. He arrived at a j small town and began to question the porter. "I suppose you have a probost

here?"

"Aye,” said the porter. “And does he have Insignia like our

i mayors?”

j “Have what?"

“Insignia—well, for Instance, does

he have a chain?"

"A chain?” said the astonished porter. "Na, na. He gang loose; but dltina be feared, he’s quite harmless."

Just Like All Men.

Patriotic. The baby was bawling. Ba stood It 'The rapidly increasing divorce B ® lon * he c °uld and then ventured

rate," remarked the wit, "Indicates

that America is Indeed becoming: th»

land of the free.”

“Yes,” replied his prosaic friend, “but the continued marriage rate sug gests that It is still the home e( the

brave."

to make inquiry.

“What does the baby want?" "He is like moat men," snapped ma. “How is that, my dear?” “Doean’t know what he wants, but keepa yelling for it I" she returned. "He will make • great statesmaa,"

Mid JML discreetly.

MADE HIS GARDEN PAY WElj Minnesota Lad Laid His Plans Ear| and Carried Them Out With Skill. Garden plans started during Chrlsl mas vacation and carried out the fol lowing summer earned a Minnesoti club boy a net profit of more tha $100 and the state garden dub chan plnnship for last year. Obtaining location for his garden early, tM< club boy, Willard Weeks of Wlnoni Minn., drew a plan of his plat, Indicating the place for each variety “J seed, so that when he had the groius prepared in the spring there was ni delay in laying off and planting rows. The first products of the g*t den were ready for use 21 days aft« planting. From that time on, thnaifl 1 - out the summer, this young gardqnd not only supplied his family with ^ the fresh vegetables needed, but, learning how to prepare his products (® r market, he built up an extensive trad* among his neighbors. Finding the prW for late products low, he used M training he had acquired In canning club work to put up tomatoes, b** 11 and corn, pickles and preserves to winter use. At the end of the sea*" big records showed the total value o vegetables used at home, canned, a® stored for winter, and sold, to be »1 produced at an expense of $21.50.

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