The Chronicle from Scottsburg, Indiana • 1

Vol XL VII SCOTTSBURG- INDIANA WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13 1926 No 41 NOTES FROM THE LOCAL FIELD Items of Interest About Happenings In the Town and County Elmer Huckelberry 22 of Austin and Miss Hazel Hsll 22 daughter of Mr and Mrs George Hall of Underwood were married here Saturday by Justice John A Furnish Herby Bruce Lichti 22 son of Fred Lichti of Johnson township and Miss Helen June Whiteman 217 daughter of Schuyler Whiteman of Jennings township were granted marriage license here Saturday and on Monday license was granted to James A Skaggs 24 of Greensburg Ky and Margaret Ryan 26 of Toledo Ohio Registration in Scott County Totals 4554 The registration of Voters in Scott county has been completed' It was impossible to avoid duplications and also the names of persons voting at the last election who have since moved away The report shows the following number registered: Finley township 446 Jennings township 775 Johnson township 527 Lexington towpship 936 Vienna township 1870 Total in county 4554 ALPHA' Farmers busy cutting corn and filling silos Several attended the Center pie supper Friday night Floyd Sipe and family of Benton Co are visiting his folks Mr and Mrs Chas Sipe DeBerry was at Scottsburg Saturday Not much wheat being sown on the account of too' much rain Roscoe Sipe and family attended church at Wesley Chapel Sunday Sheldon Spear end wife spent the week end with home folks Dennis Cox has purchased a Chevrolet roadster Only three more weeks until election Be sure to vote NEW PROVIDENCE Tis time now to trim your-cuckle burs The simplest way to learn the Charleston is to catch the itch first Mrs Whiteman and daqgbtpy left Sunday to join her husband at Hammond who is employed by the Roxana Oil Co Raymond Lichti and sister Bessie and MisaAlma Bartle made a short call at Whitemans Sunday a and spent balance of the day with Mrand Mrs Wm Bartle i Mr and Mrs Schuyler Whiteman oil Saturday Oct 9th celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary by receiving a new fad when their daughter Helen June became the wife of Herba Bruce Lichti ZOAH Mr and Mrs Howard Hougland cf Louisville visited their mother Mrs Harry Bell Sunday Andrew Johnson and wife visited II Johnson and family Sunday Mr3 Harry Bell Mrs Pluma Reed and daughter Hester 'Ruth visited Charles Reed and wife Friday Mr Reed is in very poor health again Mrs Robert Fleenor and daughter are visiting friends in Chicago thiaf week Wayne Mitchell aftd family visited their grandmother at Seymour Sunday KrNDERHOOK Will Watson lost a fine Jersey last week foundered on corn Several from this community attend? ed the trial of Bridgewater vs Carter Monday Sommerville has moved back to his own property and Johnson has moved in the Hougland property vacated by Sommerville Harsh el Whitehead and family and W- Hoea and wife of Scottsburg spent Spnday with A Whitlatch and wife Rev Grover Latimer preached two very fine sermons here Sunday and was entertained by Chandler and wife John Gladden And wife visited he? father at St Ejdwards Hospital Sub dayhere he has underwent two operations in the last ten days PUBLIC -House hold goods of the late John Mitchell home Dining table chairs bedsteads dressers stoves kitchen cabinet safe and various other article? Auction at 2 Saturdayj Oct 16 Also house for rent to responsible parties Hallo well CHARLES MILLER For State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles Miller Republican candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Is a practical school man familiar with all phases of school work having had experience in all fields of educational endeavor He began his teaching career the rural schools of Fountain County Ind has been a high school principal city school superintendent and now County superintendent of Elkhart County Mr Miller graduated from Depauvf University with Phi Beta Kappa honors has had his post graduate work in the University of Chhsago and is an active member of the educational organisations of the State and is a mem her of the National Educational Asso- ciation And National Superintendents Association He is closely identified with civic affairs being a director of the Goshen Chamber of Commerce a director of the Indiana State Tuberculosis Association and ft member of the Goshen KiwAnis Club Mr Miller believes the o'ffice ef the State Superintendent of Public Jnstrnci tion is executive and Administrative and that the office should be administered in an efficient and economic manner He believes in As equal an Opportunity for all the children of the as cari possibly be giVen He favors the best physical Condition possible for teachers and pupils and believes that teachers should receive A remuneration commensurate with the serVice reridered and that teachers of successful experience should -fee given assurance of tenure of service Unless removed for Mr Miller believes the real educational problem that confronts the State today is the rural school Mr Miller is equipped both by experience And training to hieet this situation VOTE THfc REPUBLICAN TlCltFT Advertisement RevJ Rare visitedfriends in Chattanooga Tenn last week Landry Cravens arrived home Friday for a few days visit with home folks Alex Watterson and family visited the week-end with relatives at Indianapolis Mrs Roscoe Hougland is visiting her "daughter Mrs Clyde Kern at Indianapolis Mr and Mrs Frank Cravens and son Of Franklin spent the week-end With relatives" Mary Neuhauser daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Neuhauser who had been quite ill is recovering Mrs Anna Everhart went to Indianapolis Saturday for a ten-day visit with Rev and Mrs A Trinkle Mr and Mrs John England had as their guests Sunday Mr and Mrs Emery McCullough of Charlestown George Thompson of Austin Who has been at Elgin 111 thq past VBeveral months was in Scottsburg Saturday Ed Everhart a former well known resident of Ogrd Spring jlow living at Crothersville is reported to be in a very Serious condition Mrs Florence Dobbs returned Friday from a three visit at Jeffersonville She will residri with he? grandmother Mrs Mary Osborn As an evidence of the amount Of goods packed by the Morgan Packing Co at their Austin plant 14 car loads Were shipped out in one day last week i The pumpkin packing season is now bn in full blast at Vienna UnderWood Henryville Scottsburg and AustinT county pumpkin is famous and finds ready sale Miss Mary Thompson of Austin Who Ibas been in hospital iri Indianapolis for several Weeks is expected home this Week Her mother Mrs who had been 'witn her tame hom'd last week James Traylor who has been In poor health for several months is now Confined to his bed and there seems but question of a short time until hb succumbs He has tuberculosis Mrs Charles I McBride returned Sunday from a visit of live weeks with ier daughter Mrs William Peinber-' ton in Indianapolis Mr and Mrs Pemberton are the parents of a 12-ponnd daughter born recently Mia's Lola Murphy gaVe a farewell party Saturday evening in honOr of her brother-in-law and sister Mr and Mrs peorge Hubbard who arb moving to Wooster Eighty friends wefe present to enjoy the occasion which was in the Mature of a surprise for Mr ahd Mrs Hubbard ScottsBurg arid Scdtt couhty was well Represented at Madison on Sathrday 'last at the dedication of the Lanier Historical Home At least 20 people from Scottsburg attended Miss Per-tnelia Boyd as President of the Scott jCoUnty Historical Society was oh the program in the dedication ekerciaes The Scottsburg State Bank lias begun remodeling the interior of its banking house by enlarging 'the banking room Also a new heating system will be installed and hefitUrCs 'The stairway leading to the second story will Sriso be removed to the tear of the building arid the upper rooms rearranged Round Trip To Sunday- October 17 tickets good going ind returning ift Coaches only on regular trains leaving Scottsburg 10:06 a '6hd leaving Louisville Pennsylvania RAILROAD Hickory nuts and Mrs Frank Scot Sunday Work on the fifls to the Marshfield bridge is progressing nicely Frank Cravens oF Jeffersonville was here Monday on busipess Mr and Mrsi Clay Prosser of Mun-cie are guests of Mr and Mrs Henry Jurgens Ad Ritter is slowly Improving but not yet able to attend to at his shoe store John McCartney of Alpha Republican nominee for county auditor was in town Monday Thomas Mount of Indianapolis visited here with his brother George A Mount the week-end Mr and Mrs Grant Sweet were guests of Mr and Mrs Grover Davis at Crothersville Sunday evening Howard Montgomery of Vienna left Monday night for Ogilby Calif where he expects to spend the winter Working in a gold mine Mr and Mrs Samuel McCurry of Blocher were here Monday and were accompanied home by his mother Mrs James McCurry Mr and Mrs Verner' Mann of Frankfort Ind are visiting here with the grandmother Mrs Matilda Montgomery Mrs Margaret Warner of Crothersville mother of Mrs Frank Gardner who has been qriite ill for tome time is now convalescing Mrs Hattie Robbins who was the guest for several days Of her sister Mrs Whitsitt returned to her home in Crothersville last week Miss Frances Sellers was at Indianapolis several days last week and entertained the State Federation of Clubs by whjstling Masse' of Indianapolis a secret Service operative called on ex-U Marshal Mark Storeh Monday Mr Masse Succeeded Capt Thos Halls who held the podtioh for half a century before retiring Mr and Mrs Palmer Hickersob of Crothersville are the proud parents of a son born Oct 4 Mr Hickerson is the Son of Mr and Mrs AleX Hfcker-son of Scottsburg Sylvester Cheatham was here Saturday and ordered bills for a public sale whibh he will hold at his residence one and one-fourth mile southwest of tJn-derwood at two Saturday Oct 23 Stock and farm tools' Claude McBride prominent lawyer of Jeffersonville who sued George Voigt also one bf that leading lawyers for $300(k) for publishing in his fVoigvs) paper thbEvenihgNews that McBride was a member Of the Ku Klux Rian dismissed hih suit Week Jonas Dean wds hero Saturday and ordered billh for a public sale which he will hold Tuesday Oct 19 1926 at the Willie Elrod farm Similes we6t of Memphis and miles southwest of HenryvillC Mules cattle swine feed and farm implements will be sold Mrs Puss Hatmofa McDonald of Louisville has filed suit against Sherwood Jennffags in the 'Federal court demandlhg $9000 for services rendered by her before her marriage While a mehaber of his household during the lifetime of Mrs Charity Jenriiugs It will require 635 county ballots and an equal nuihber of township ballots for the coming election There will be 15 candidates on the Democratic and Repftb'ican tickets bn the coUnty ballots Voters al9o will haVe a ballot and a ballot containing four proposed Constitutional amendment J5hn Hutson conductor on an Interstate stock motor car suffered injuries to his shoulder Monday afternoon when the car 'ran fhto an operi switch hear Latrgdon and Went over the end of the switch into aylitcb Grady Freeman of Seymour motormah and fclydql Hildreth of Seymour helper also received slight injuries Hutsofi and Hil dreth both received their injuries when they jumped from the 'car Freeman her Responsibility for the open switch will be determined by an investigation by Interstate Vffieiata Lewis Powers died Monday night at the home of his daughter Mrs Elmer Crum in this place after an illness of several weeks from dysentery Aged about 70 years daughters and one son Mrs Elmer Crum and Mrs Lawrence Cram of this place and Roy Powers of Henry-ville Funeral services will be held at the home this Wednesday) afternoon at 1 With burial at the Clegg cemetery near Henryyille Ritter Bakery Is Burglarized Cash Only Is Taken Henry bakery on the west side of the public square was burglarized Saturday night When he came up Sunday morningTrom his home he found the rear door partly open and a corner of the Window light near the door broken He found his cash register had been rifled and $815 taken They had opened his safe opening the outside door by using their sense of touch on the dial and then jimmied the inside Compartment only to find nothing in it They overlooked his bill fpld containing $2300 that was in a small box on the Counter Mr Ritter found they had tried to jimmy the rear door and failing to open it had broken the window glass reached in and turned the key in the door He missed nothing else but the cash Pqultrymen Meet and Lay Plans For Coming Year Forty of Scott county's leading poul-trymen met With Prof A Seaton of Purdue and County Agent Ellis Hawk to Outline a pian of poultry Improvement for Scott county during the next year Some of the features of the plan Will include the Continuation of the eight demonstration farms where cost records ate kept Of the flocks as well as a systematic study made of praCtical poultry raising methods Purdue university is also furnishing a very practical egg record calendar free to interested poultrymen which may be secured from the county agent While the demonstration farms and the egg record projects are the basis of the corinty-wide program of poultry improvement a Series of meetings and tours are planned for the coming The first of these meetings will be a two-day poultry school to be held in Scottsburg during January At thii time instructors will be secured- frotn Purdue brihging the university direct to the county The next meeting will be in the form of a baby 'Bhick tour several prominerit poultry farms being visited and their methods studied A big poultry field day was planned for July at one of the lafgest poultry farms in the county The last meeting scheduled 'for the year 1927 Will be a tour of yoUltity frirnis in September or October with the idea of studying different methods bf getting fall And winter egg production Now Harmony in a full week last webk but too wet to work wheat ground eX cept on' high land Pumpkin hauling is in drder and com cutting Is wtell under way A Needier was at Sfelleltaburgp one day last week Harrod was a business Visitor in Scottsburg Priday Born to Mr arid Mrs Helmv on the Sudie Hunt farm one day last Week a daughter Will Chastben and family of-hear Austin visited his father-in-law Roma Cade and wife Sunday Ralph Trabue lias a Very sick child Mr Trabue fcas just moved to tht3 place from the north part bf the state He is survived by two Happy Hollow Ro9feoe Sipe and family of fieritoft county wbre Sunday visitor of Delbert Peacock and family ReV Charles Hisey and Wife yirere Suhdhy dinner gttests of Floyd WeSt and family Frink Cass rind family and PaulCas's and wife spent Sunday with the patents Walter Patton and wife Marjorie Lowry spent Sunday With Frsarid PaUHnb EVerhrirV LBOTA Leslie Hobbs and family visited Mr Mrs jj Eari Rjcbey Sunday Eli Dean and family of Seymour were Sunday visitors with friends here Mrs Elmer Hobbs and Wiliie Barnes A were called to Louisville Monday to the bedside of their father Wiley Barnes Who was struck by an automobile and reriouly injured Scott Richey and family and Willie Terrell and family were Sunday gqests of Lamaster and wife at Scottsburg Mrs Dewey Chapman and children of Jeffersonville spent last week with her sister Mrs Sherman Rose Commissioners Allowances Allowances made by the Board of Commissioners of Scott County Indiana at the October term October 4 1926: Ray Balary 100 60 Thornton-Levey Co clerk's of ex 24 75 Ray office expense 2 05 Hugbbanks salry 137 50 Thornton-Levey Co ofe ex 43 02 Clara Bridgewater treasur- salary 100 00 Clara Bridgewater office expense 5 00 Stacy Coleman salry 175 00 recorder's ofc exp 12 50 Ardfey salary 83 33 Floyd Jamesr Snpt schools sal 125 00 Floyd James traveling expense 30 00 Willis Craig Co sal 66 67 Macy Coker inquest Martha Richey 7 00 Wilson health ooffir rialary 31 15 Baldwin Commissioner salary Charles Stark Sommerville Mark Storen county attorney Roscoe Hougland ert hs janitor Gerxrio Mfg Co riUp corirt house Harry Lodwick labor court yard Zenri tiytlri eip truant officer- truant office Poor Eugene Garfiott Supt Clara Garriott matron Dr McClain doctor A Vest' i- Malta Hardy gasoline 11 71 Citizens Security Co xhale hrig 28 50 Densford RroSj supplies 41 85 Frank Everhart labor 53 50 Expense Registration Board- HUghbanks 13000 dwens nlSO 60 Stewart Son burial sol- dier A Higdon 76 00 Stewart A Son burial sol dier Wm Vancampen 75 00 Lloyd Reid farmers institute 7 75 of Lodge rent Co office 12 50 Hawk Co Agt salary 125 13 Chas Platz const Tash bridge LE Engineer Whitshtt bridge Engineer Curtis bridge Engineer Tash bridge Ebgineer Stucker Creek bfdg Engineer Day bridge I 23 IB II Ririgold Supt Tash bfidge 2 50 Driy Supt Day bridge' 40 00 Howard Craig bridge repair 192 91 Stock and Fowls Killed by Fred StOnehouse turkeys 28 40 Sallie Ma'ggard turkey ji" Hulsetj turkeys Mary Keith turkeys -t Anna Johnson chickehst-il McClanahan sherip Earl Sortimetrille -i WKatl Sommer viile duekb Ray hogs i Free Gravel Road John Gladden SuptL 92 00 John Gladden Supt mileage 18 50 Ghas Lowry Asst Supt 467 95 Chas A Miller Asst Supt 175 16 Stark Asst Supt 725 40 HoWard Craig Asst-- Supt 133 00 James Gladden Asst Supt 574 43 Earl Gladden Asst 883 44 Ge6 Abbott Asst Suptl 368 40 Thornton-Levey feffice expense Rectrders offibe expense Municipal Light Plant electric light for county House Wilson Gardrier Load Co bnit No 5 120 24 Roscoe Houglarid labor trt yard 25 00 Hubbard Co- Supplies for jail 1 44 Supplies for poor farm' -29 26 HUGHBANKS Scott CoUnty TEACHERS! Special rates to INDIANAPOLIS Account STATE teachers association Tickets on sole Oct I8lh-23rd Return Limit Oct 29th INTERSTATE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY $200 Excursion To Indianapolis AND RETURN Sunday Oct 17 1926 Leave Station 8:08 A INTERSTATE PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY PROGRAM CORNER STONE LAYING Scottsburg High School Gyhidasiuth Bldg Thursday October 14 1926 2:30 Master bf CereirioniesCohgresstnan trank Gardner Commuhity Singing Led by Clara Ulen Supervisor of Music Scottsburg Schools i Song All Rev Ralph bghn Invocation Introductory Remarks i Hon Frank Gardner ru rn II Bartlett Architect ohort Talks CornelfriS Ccntra'ctrir Song The Beafttiful Short Talks by Representatives of the following organizations: Ccmhiefcial Club Lynn Craig PreL CiVic League Mra Woilgr Frest 4 Lions Club -M American Legiori vu I BrWtoVV iTikoriafi Stott County Farm BureaQV 'SH Tf-nari Fre Song Star Spangled Al? Scott CoUnty Historical Perihelia ISoyd Preh Izarik Walton League YJ ft Free Board of Education McCormitk Pros Trustee Vienna Township Ed 'GWri Laying of Corner Stone Frank Gardner Assisted by II Bartlett and Cornelius Benediction Rev Bare "11 V' 7 r1 1 ry.