Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archiveArchive Home
The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 14
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 14

Location:
Indianapolis, Indiana
Issue Date:
Page:
14
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

THE. IXDIAXAPOLIS SUNDAY STAR, NOVEMBER 2, .1930. PETERS REPORTS SIGMS OF ViGTDRY Democratic State Chairman Says His Organization Is Confident. THE STAR CONGRATULATES. ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR 14 2k i $Tf i 1 pre-election statement issued yesterday by R.

Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, he declared that reports from his organization point to a "tremendous victory" for the party in the state. Mr. Peters asserted that the Democratic organization throughout the state is more alert and enthusiastic than in any other campaign in which he has been identified. "TfTe people, not the parties, have rnadc the issues," he said. "The people are demanding relief from burdensome administrations in state affairs and, in local counties where therp has hppn 'Rpnnhliean nHminis- on display "Vitally different," is what they say about the Majestic, due to the distinct features engineered into this wonderful refrigerator.

Investigate this marvelous convenience to the modern home. NO PLUMBING No Special Equipment Required Low operating cost self-closing door temperature regulator double-depth tray for freezing desserts 84 ice cubes at one freezing. 7 2. lC 3205 Installci Majestic 30 MR. AND MRS.

HENRY STRAYKR. MR. AND MRS. A. li.

M'DOXALD. SEE IT TODAY AT SMITH-HASSLER-STURM Xpcritil In Thf 1 mlianapoUx Sar.l WABASH, Nov. 1. Sixty-one years ago yesterday Miss Kate Cra-bill and Hjnry Strayer were married here and last night on their sixty-first anniversary, scores of persons called at their home in North Manchester to help them celebrate. Mr.

Strayer is a veteran of the civil war, having enlisted atthe age of 17. After their marriage they lived here a short time and then moved to North Manchester -where they have lived fifty-nine years. They are the parents of two children, Clyde Strayer of Elkhart and Miss Kva Strayer of Huntington. Special to The Indianapolis Star. BRAZIL, Nov.

1 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander D. McDonald celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary recently with a family gathering. Five children with their fami Lincoln 3406 217-221 MASS.

AVE. parents located here in 1870. Here Mr. McDonald learned the carpenter's trade. In the nineties he did extensive contracting, erecting the former Indiana Paving Brick Company plant for W.

W. Winslow of Indianapolis. He also helped in the construction of the Chicago Sewer Pipe Company's plant, the Standard Pottery Company's factory and other industrial plants here. He retired from the carpenter trade about twenty-two years ago and has Rince been engaged in the grocery business. Mrs.

McDonald was born in Clay county, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Oliver, early settlers of the county. WED 50 YEARS. TOMORROW LAS lies and a number of cousins and friends assembled for the observance.

Mr. and Mrs. McDonald have spent their entire married life in Brazil and were married here by the late Rev. Mr. Buck, one of the pioneer ministers of Brazil.

Mr. McDonald was born at Redding, and his DAY FOR TAXES DR. FOESHEE'S tration. same misrule has resulted in general revolt. of all, the voters have come to understand that the traditional plea of the Republican organization, that prosperity is insured by the election of their officials, is not true.

The farmers, the merchants, the industrialists and the workers in our great cities have conclusive proof that this lairn. a patent on prosperity is t.oi true. Says People Seek Belief. people are demanding relief from high taxation. They are demanding even more emphatically a system of taxation which will relieve the overburdened property owner atvl place a proper proportion of th" costs of government upon thor holders nf intangibles who now escape taxation.

"Our party has promised an income tax law, now generally recognized. the fairest means of raising revenue for public purposes. "We have conducted a campaien exclusively upon the issues of 1 1 campaign which were, as I have said, made by the people themselves. Our campaign has been conducted by citizens of Indiana appealing to their fellow citizens. Our speakers have been residents of this state.

No person residing outside nf Indiana imported by the Democratic party for the purpose of telling our people how to manage the affairs of our state government. "I appeal to voters of all parties who join with us in a desire for a change in governmental policies to be watchful and vigilant that the will of the people as recorded in the ballot box will be honestly recorded reported. The strategy of Republican managers in the closing days of the campaign, based upon appeals to prejudices and passion, is meeting merited rebuke in every community of Indiana." American Beauty Plate TT--TT pA a They're All Clamoring for It Offered for a Limited Time Only at a Price That Fits Every Pocket book Unprecedented Rush Expected at Office of County Treasurer. An unprecedented rush of citizens to pay the fall installment of Mat-ion county taxes tomorrow, the final day, is expected by Clyde E. Robinson, county treasurer.

The oflice will open at. o'clock in the morning and remain opnn until o'clock in the afternoon. The rush is anticipated because of the small numbers of persons who have paid their taxes before the finil day as compared to former Only One-Half raid. Only a little more than one-half of the taxpayers had paid yesterday, according to the treasurer. Delinquencies this year are expected to reach a new record, Mr.

Robinson said. The normal tax collection at the fall installment is approximately $11,000,000. THE MAN WHO KNOWS HOW sagr re Face-Forming Plate DR. FORSHEE'S OWN PROVEN METHOD Kestores a 1 1 MR. AND MRS.

DAVID E. HEBRON. Mr. and Mrs. David E.

Herron observed their golden wedding anniversary at their home, 642 Udell street, Friday with an open house from 2 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon and from 7 to 9 o'clock at night for relatives and friends. Both were born in Newton county and were married there. They came to this city in 1907. Mrs. Herron is 71 years old and Mr.

Herron is 73. Mrs. Herron was Miss Sophia "Wolf before her marriage. They have six children, Chester Herron and Arthur Herron of Norfolk, and Mrs. Dana L.

Mobley, Mrs. George Johnson, Mrs. Henry C. Bofflc and Mrs. Harold C.

Pursel of Indianapolis. A 1-VI BS j. A lost facial fea- OU tures. Light MAN AT FORT WAYNE ENDS LIFE BY SHOOTING FORT WAYN'K, Nov. Morton, 40 years old, committed suicide in the garage at his home here early this morning by shooting himself through the head.

He died a short time later in a local hospital. Mrs. Morton said her husband had been despondent the last two months. Survivors are the widow, three children and his parents. '17 as a wafer.

Strong, Dura- EXTRACTION HOME ROBBED OF GEMS. 'Theft of a valuable necklace and a diamond ring nt the home of Dr. William P. Best, North New Jersey street, was reported to police yesterday. Dr.

Best said that his home was entered by breaking a latch on the rear door. MR. AND MRS. JACOB G. DARRETX.

AtiIersoa Office Meridian ble, Sanitary. Tpper or Lower 1 (iuarantecd. 038 Is the Most Successful Known Today. No Charge With Other Work. born in Johnson county near Stone's Crossing.

They have lived their entire lives in this district. They are the parents Bix children and have eight grandchildren and one Crowns Bridgework Sftrrinl In The JnrHanavolis Slar. GREENWOOD, Nov. 1. Mr.

and Mrs. Jacob G. Darrell recently observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home near here. Both are 71 years old and both were 'Tem Sis? Main Office and Laboratory 22y2 N. Penn.

St. Riley 5708 CLUB LYCEUM SALES HELD SATISFACTORY Si 23-k. none better no matter what you pay. Ask about Ir. Forshee's sanitary, removable bridges (per tooth) T7 CI 1 1 no C1.1U Open Every Night Until 8 O'clock JOBLESS APPEAL SPDNSt RE BRINGS Rale of season tickets to the Indianapolis Athletic Club lyceum, which was opened last week, has met with satisfactory response, according to Austin V.

Clifford, chairman of the entertainment committee. The lyceum is open to club members and their friends. The first of the entertainments is Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, composer, lecturer and critic of music, who will come Nov. .11.

Dr. Spaeth has won wide fame In all the channels of his musical experience. He will be followed by Goya, the Spanish dancer, who Comes Dec. 12; Dr. William Beebe, tropical marine explorer, scientist and zoological investigator, who comes Jan.

21, und Achmed Abdullah, who lectures Feb. 20. Achmed Abdullah is an oriental, graduate of Oxford and the University of Paris and a writer of wide appeal. Committee to Dine. To make plans for co-operation in Business Men of State Ac 2 MEN ATTACKED BY POKAGON DEER Special 1o The Indianapolis Star.

ANGOLA, Nov. 1. Two pep. sons were injured, one seriously, when an infuriated buck deer in th animal preserve at Pokagon stat park at Lake James attacked them today. Jake Bergman, 65 years old, park superintendent, probably was injured fatally, and John Biggs, his assist ant, was hurt seriously.

Other employes were knocked down by th deer. The two men went into the enclosure to select a location for some new pens for animals which recently were brought to the park from Michigan. Other park employes followed a short time later and saw the deer standing over the body of Bergman who had been gored in the stomach. They grabbed the belt of Bergman which was fastened to one of th deer's legs. Biggs also was on th ground.

The men were taken to th Cameron hospital here. I am receiving throughout the entire state by persons I have asked to serve on the commission," the Governor said. "The attitude as shown by those responses is ample evidence that the populace of our state is greatly interested in this cause. The business men of our state are volunteering their services and expressing their desire to be helpful at their own expense and this body of men working for one cause will without question accomplish a vast amount of good and relieve much distress in the state of Indiana." Governor Leslie said that the first meeting, 'which will be held in the Statehouse Thursday, will be an organization meeting. STATE GRAIN DEALERS SELECT INDIANAPOLIS Grain dealers of the state will meet in the Board of Trade building Jan.

22 and 23 for the thirtieth annual convention of the Indiana Grain Dealers' Association, Fred K. Sale, secretary, announced yesterday. E. R. Elliott of Muncie is president of the organization.

Sn 7 cept Leslie Call for Conference. Sixty-eight of the 234 business men asked by Governor Harry G. Leslie to accept places on his unemployment commission have indicated that FRANK OSBOR N. MR. AND MRS.

they will serve. Special to The Iiiilhiiapolifi Star. ATTICA, Nov. 1. The golden Letters accepting the invitation to attend the commission's meeting began arriving at the Governor's oflice yesterday.

Ielighted by Responses. "I am delighted with the responses anniversary nf the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Osbnrn was cele farm north of town five miles where they resided for eight years and then they returned to West Lebanon to educate their children.

The family then came to Attica to reside. They were the parents of five children, three of whom are living. Mr. Os-born, after they moved from the farm where he was a successful farmer, owned a meat market for several years. He now is employed by Sherman wiggins whom he has been with sixteen years.

brated yesterday at their residence here, Mr. Osbnrn and Jessie Miller were married at Ottowa, Oct. 31, 18S0. They resided in West Lebanon for eight years and then moved to a several projects of the Indianapolis I Athletic Club, including the build-j ins of the membership to 2,000, the committee of sixty will dine at the club tomorrow night. The commit- tee will have as guests several mem-, hers of the I.

A. many Indianap-! olis persons prominent, in business and social life, not member of the club and several residents of Indiana cities, interested in building a larger and more powerful non-resident membership. The locai membership campaign is under the direction of Kred E. Bar-i rett and the statewule campaign I under direction of Dr. A.

C. Burrell. i Announcements are expected soon of the mid-November Good Fellow-! ship dinner of members of the I. A. of Sngfetilntg Snow and See!" said a veteran Indiana farmer last month.

"I'd bo-en reading about the Gulf Coast and last summer I took a trip down there and looked it over. 1 liked what I saw well enougti to hustle back here and get my family. Now we're heading for the choicest spot in the country Baldwin Couny, down by the Gulf of Mexico! "I found there were so many ways a man could make money in Baldwin County. 11. C.

Dreis. for example, at Foley, planted -17 acres of Irish potatoes during the early part of February, at a cost of $50.00 per acre for seed and fertilizer. In May, he sold S172.00 worth of potatoes per acre! lie follows his potatoes with corn, planting soy beans in the middle of the corn at last cultivation, and pasturing the beans after harvesting the corn with hogs and cattle. "Mrs. II.

F. Miller, at Loxley, made a ma profit of $1,700 from 800 chickens. II. Styron, of Iun Secour, planted 15 acres of watermelons which netted him $100.00 per acre. Now he has cow-peas for hogs and soil builder on the same ground.

II. Stewart, also of Bon Secour. grew snap beans at a profit of $100.00 per acre, with a second crop as additional profit. "John Hons, at Robertsdale, planted 1" acres of Irish potatoes in February, and in May cleared $221.12 per acre above cost of seed and fertilizer. Those were not flukes, either.

They tell me that the average return on Alabama farm lands over a five-year period is estimated at on each dollar invested, against 18c in Indiana. I stand to make nearly four times as much out of a $5,000 investment in Alabama as in Indiana. "Then, too, the climate is mild in winter and pleasant in summer. Land is productive and will cost me less than in the North. Taxes are lower.

There is good water and fine highways and railroads nearby; schools and churches; sociable people and plenty of sport along the Coast." Many of the contented farmers in Baldwin County are men who moved there from the North. Let us tell you in detail about the opportunity for you, too, to get more out of life, in this favored section of the up-and-coming South. This Railroad has no land for sale, but will bo pleased to help you, without charge or obligation now or ever, to find just the kind of farm you want and can afford to own. Write today, stating the kind of farming you are now engaged in, to (Shaw Photos.) i C. Plans for the dinner are being made by a committee composed nf 1 Frank 1'.

Manlv. Richard A. Shirley and T. I.orin Driscoll. The Good 1 Fellowship dinners are part of the plan instituted by Peter C.

Reilly, president, and the board nf directors to enlarge the scope and influence of he club. SAME MAN ROBS DRIVER 2 TIMES AN INVITATION Is cordially extended to inspect the new 1931 models of the Brunswick Radio on display at the Brunswick display room-45 Monument Circle 1 st door north of entrance to Circle Theatre. NO SETS SOLD HERE. This display is for your Inspection only. You have not seen the ultimate in Radio until you see the new 1931 Brunswick -the radio of the future.

Four revolutionary features, which are to be found in Brunswick only, plus Brunswick's traditional painstaking workmanship, explain why these amazing models so completely anticipate the future. Cabinets of classic beauty made to match the most distinguished of home settings. This display thru the courtesy of Indiana Brunswick dealeri and The House of Crane, Indiana Distributors. For the second time in a week, William F. Dochterman, 1125 North Oakland avenue, driver for the Pilgrim laundry, was held up by the same Negro bandit.

He was robbed last night of at Patterson and North streets. Dochterman said that the bandit pointed a revolver at him as he started to get into his truck, and forced him to dump the money from a purse into the bandit's hat. MR. AND MBS. WILLIAM O.

BLAKELY. years. Mr. Blakely wns engaged in the merchandising business until he retired. He is a leading lodge man and churchman.

Mr. Blakely's brother, Horace Blakely, and wife, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary several months ago. Special in The 1 mliauapoli Star. BLOOM lNGTON, Nov. 1.

Mr. and Mis. William O. Blakely, well-known residents of Blooming-ton, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary this week. They have been living in Bloomington for many DEBATERS ARE CHOSEN FOR MANCHESTER TEAM WARASH, Nov.

1. John Flcnuchamp, Wilbur Brookover, Harvey Collins, Ralph Finnel, Lawrence Garst, Earl Carver, Tom Jones, James McFadden, Ernest Shively, Russel Compton, Ralph Lawson, Robert Noffsinger, Lewis Lloyd, Er-ward Sausaman, Robert Tulley, Robert Holt, Keith Jones and Paul Kin-sel have been named members of the varsity debating team of Manchester rollege. The first interscho-lastic debate will be with Purdue on Dec. 3. Carl B.

James Ceneral Development Agent Louisville Nashville R. R. Depf. S. Ninth and Broadway born in Bavaria.

They came to this country with their parents, settling in New York state, where they were married. They lived for a time in Mercer county, Ohio, later moving to Jay county. Mr. and Mrs. Hafner are the parents of eight children, seven of MR.

AND MRS. JOHX HAFNKB. PORTLAND, Nov. golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs.

John Hafner was celebrated last Sunday at the Trinity Catholic Churrh. northeast of Portland. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY Tnfph rjardnor. 117 Kentucky Avf. Rooter and sheel mtsj eomractor.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Hafnar were whom ars livinf.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the The Indianapolis Star
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About The Indianapolis Star Archive

Pages Available:
2,552,294
Years Available:
1862-2024