Williamsport Warren Republican (Newspaper) - November 4, 1915, Williamsport, Indiana County July 16 14 THE TO THE INTERESTS OF WILLIAMSPORT AND WARREN VOL. NOVEMBER 4, 1915. 4 IS NEBI Net Our Roads in Warren County The Best In The We Don't Need Brick or FOR IIWI and Lincoln Trails Serve as a e High Cost to Tax 0. B. Is Undergoing an Complete Being Made THE 51 William Pastor of the Presbyterian Has Filled Pulpit Here For Forty summer a subscription paper was circulated in and around by the U. B. and a matter of about subscribed towards the remodeling of the With this amount of all members went diligently to work to transfer the old house of worship to an up-to-date modern All summer long they have been working hard to complete the building and at this time they have it enclosed and about ready for the plasterers and building was removed to a lot nearby the old when a 30x46 was placed under the main which will be in apartments and t j u Tx of the Lord at the present time as a kitchen and a c the instigation of nis An we are m- t T I been given a vacation for an formed was built to the mam i. 7- u indefinite because of and this will be used as a o 1- J 1 1 physical School and class un- 1 A This venerable old this annex was also placed a loved and respected by every 18x26, which will serve 11 woman and child in Warren them ample room for all u u i Fountain who has had i u- -n K fortune to meet has The floors and furnishings will J v 1 i been m the service m the hard and additional j r f for 51 and for 40 years he has filled the pulpit of in so long as they get what they pay for and work and completion will be pushed very and they arej hopeful that they will be able to announce the date for dedicating the j same within the next few hear a great deal of talk concerning a Dixey Highway or Lincoln Highway or National Now then it matters but little in our opinion what they name the if ever tax payers in the counties where the road is constructed will pay the entire The parties that are agitating this plan will never be called upon to pay for any of the highways These game parties have been working hard for the last three or four sessions of the State legislature to enact some kind of a law whereby the local authorities will loose control and shift the power to State entire proposition would mean more public officials at big salaries and more Indiana has in the last lew years been doing her utmost on the read proposition and ranks amongst the foremost states in We know that there does exist at the present time a great deal of uneasiness in regard to our we can't blame anybody but So long as we keep asking for more just so long will the officials have to raise the levy to meet the Now then we are not going to complain of the but it would seem at this time tnat we should be on the alert for any rash or unnecessary fad that might be sprung upon might be worth our while to consider the possibility of a Dixey Highway running through the south end of Warren known as the Covington and Danville This road in question was graveled the year of 1902 and bonds were sold for the same 1 believe in 1901 and were to be paid out in 20 thus you see we still owe for the This is a splendid road and well kept an ordinary team of horses could pull 100 bushels of from one end to the other and it is also fine for automobile suppose the Dixey enthusiast should demand this road torn up and either concreted 01 paved with brick at an enormous as this is the plan talked of by the Their argument for same is that after construction there will be no expense j Entertained at Halloween the Present at This Venerable Old Man Will Take a Rest and Vacation for William perhaps one ' of the oldest ministers in the st M. C. Arthur's Supposed to Have May Have Been Done Away With by Foul NOW mmm ON and Two of His Companions Spending the Afternoon at Gravei Pit Near be placed in the new piano has been added to the i will make the entire cost j 1 J u pleading with mankind remodeled church aggregating a more than but the they might step out from the sinful pie of that neighborhood their stand for and they don't stand dear man is loving tender of Pleasant in and interesting in pleasing in and it a degree of true sympathy sadness of heart that the who love and admire learn of some minor physical Down A Bee he must for a at few nights ago a party of j take a rest and but it had a tooth for sweet hoped by all and especially had the the people either in or out of to go onto the property farmed that he will soon be able Bert and fell a big resume his position in the was for a day or so in a and again in a as to who had j tender point and his winter's supply of virtues of a Christian No one knew and no one would until a little belonging to the man who done the WHILE to men the He is old the same to-day as and the people love him dearly because of his ideals i and because of his true Christian let the cat out of the sack by He is a the neighbors that ma and had honey for Bert didn't care so much for the honey or the but since it has been cut down and lays dab across Rattlesnake branch he wants it worked up into but the boys refuse to go near the or to even look at unless Bert guarantees to get on a supply of medicine that will cure all ills and especially rattle snake They are not so fearful of the real snake as they are of the name of the which every time it is mentioned causes a yellow streak to form on their Come be brave and show Bert you're game to the Gephart Falls From Wagon and Sustained Broken All such talk is Misses Lottie and Winifred Siddens entertained a large party to do is to refer you to their young friends at their home and parts of roads built on on North Monroe Street Monday and we will show you evening at a Halloween Masquerade and worn in the A large number of special freezing and thawing and hot sun invitations were sent out and of the young people most of whom wore some ridiculous uniform or After the guests had the evening was spent in their effect on these roads and must be some more or less expense on these roads the same as other conclusion I will say that no ill feeling towards any but town trying to get one of who was established their for was strictly a Halloween have a tendency to the house was decorated with traffic from other places and wierd effects relative to All Saints late their own but when a time when many young consider the construction of a speedway and the enormous expense and that the expense must fall on the Is it not the duty of each and every tax imagine they can see for the first time their future husbands or were also in keeping with the occasion of and were heartily relished to give this his careful those At an hour well Tax the the young folks each one pronouncing the Misses Siddens very charming and entertaining League Prophet's Great Promise 2:21, 27-29), is the next Sunday not very far and all and a good meeting is of the Epworth League Everybody is cordially keep this in and help to this one of the most and profitable weeks of the the afternoon of June 9, of this Benton son of Rev. the Christian minister at went of his all about 15 years to a gravel pit at a point about four miles to the northwest of Boswell to spend the one knows what happened at the gravel but along in the afternoon his companions came to town and one of them told his father that Burton Arthur had been drowned in the gravel mind was about two or three hours after the drowning is supposed to have According to the this is the first evidence that there might have been something The news spread rapidly about the and a number of men went to the and after some difficulty the body was An inquest was and it really was discovered that the boy had really been seized WAS THE BEST MEETING Ele Stansbury Gave a Splendid Address and the Others Did UP AND BY A GANG was announced and advertised for last October 31, the Christian Bible School of had a splendid program and a fine which reached the total number of 112. first number on the but interesting was a solo by Mrs. Eldo and she sang very sweetly with a clear distinctive and the rendition of the selection was rendered with great this Hon. made a short in which he spoke of the true worth of the Bible School to the and he also laid great stress on the duty of the teacher to pointing out the teachers moulded the minds of the little ones under their charge during the Bible School and how these self same teachers were instrumental in guiding their footsteps in future He paid a glowing tribute to his teachers of years when he was but a attending Sunday School back at his old She had become so endeared to his that although but a he styled her his second and when in later years she passed from earth to that better realm it was with sadness in his heart that he received the Aside from his own dear was his it was she that taught him the beautiful stories of the and it was she that pointed out to him that Jesus came on earth to save and he loved her for last number was a sang Roving Band of Gypsies Struck Town At Noon And Began Their Usual Vocation of Begging and JOHN FOX OF of the Women Stopped Mr. Fox Front of Jack Home And Tried to Get His and drowned before his companions could rescue After i Messrs. Will and Merle inquest the body was turned | liam Cowgill and and the who em though they had but little week Ernest while moving from his farm home in Medina near Green to a farm south of the misfortune to fall from the wagon which ran over him and broke one of his time ago Ernest secured control of a piece of land south of and last week he loaded up his plows and other farming implements and started for his new Things went along all right until he reached a point south of Lafayette known as the where the wagon gave a sudden lurch and Mr. Gephart was thrown to the ground in such a position that the hind wheel of the loaded wagon passed over his body breaking his rib and injuring his was picked up and given medical attention while his injuries are not of the most serious there is a chance for him to be confined to his home for should pneumonia set in. His friends in and around his former home are sorry to learn of his misfortune but are hopeful that they may not prove more serious than has been stated the body and it was laid to rest in due form and with tender mercy and the last someone who was present at the gravei pit has spread the report that there was no water taken from his lungs or while someone according to the story told the reporter of this noticed that his neck was supposed to have been done by Besides this was a large blue or bruised spot on his body that could not possibly have gotten there if he had came to his death by this evidence at hand Rev. Arthur has caused an investigation to be made to learn the truth as to how his son met and the case as it now stands will be given to the Benton county grand jury for The revival of this case has caused quite a ripple of excitement in and since the two boys who were with Burton Arthur on that fatal afternoon have gone away from the there are those about the town who are very loud in their opinion as to how the boy met There is only two points to be reached in this one is that Rev. Arthur will be satisfied in his own mind as to the manner how his boy came to his and the boys over whom the shadow of the crime is now hanging will either be vindicated or song was well and so heartily appreciated that they have been requested to sing again at the Bible School and at the regular church the Bible School hour which was pleasantly and profitably Rev. T. P. Martin spoke from the Study of and it was one of the most masterly pulpit addresses that has been delivered in the Christian Church for or the recollection of the oldest in Time and space will not permit us to go into but it is sufficient to say it was fine and well was a glorious day for the Christian Church and for the Christian people of because it brought together the it revived their faith in mankind and renewed and strengthened their love for their a Williamsport's High School Moved to McCabe has moved his family to he has formed a with his J. W. This does not mean that Charlie will not be in for such is not the as he will spend a part of the week and be associated with his Edwin F. McCape and continue his practice in the Warren circuit Lafayette he will also practice law and loan but his practice there will be confined largely to office inasmuch as his regular up the game played here F night with the Ambia High Land Sold commissioner of the Gearty Attorney E. McCabe sold at the door the Gearty land in Pine for to Mrs. who lived within a of the land acted as his own and as such he made a good one caused the real estate to bring a top Luppold made a business trip to said to have a pretty stiff but when they appeared on the floor it was found they had a few ranging in age from 30 to 35 slug but our fellows didn't register any They would try anything and when the time came to call the game they went onto the and what a drubbing they gave At the end of the game the score stood 51 to 18 in favor of and our boys didn't try to play the If they and Ambia hadn't run in a few the score would have no 151 to 0. Williamsport has a good basket ball made up of the material that don't get discouraged when a little defeat comes very lucrative business along these McCabe is one of the bright and promising young attorneys of Warren who has a bright and promising future before is and this ambition has led him to spread out and seek a broader field of where he can bring his realization up to a goal that will be in a manner self will be a box supper at the Schlosser School Friday November 5, 1915. Everybody invited Edith G. V. R. of Prairie was a business visitor in Williamsport Friday at noon Monday a thieving band of Gypsies and drove into town from the and no sooner had they got into the business center than they unloaded the who at once began to ply their usual vocation of stealing and telling of the dirty of female accompanied by something she called a accosted John and on a pretext of getting close to asked him the time of who is took out his watch and told her what time it By this time the female had got hold oi the old hand and wanted to tell his and while she had his attention thus attracted she got busy with the other hand which found its way into his pocket and took therefrom his pocketbook which contained over The money was in two different One contained and tlie other but the roll looked the largest because it was loosely of course the greedy old Gypsy took at this moment who has a quick noticed that the Gypsy was getting a little too familiar with his grabbed the pocketbook from her and demanded that she get away from which she willing did as she figured she had made a pretty good she had started down the John took an inventory of his finances and found he had been for He immediately gave the alarm and Marshal Joe Russell was put on the trail in a had them under and her They were taken upstairs into Justice Powell's court where by ber peculiar identified the She and her pal were searched and the brought from its hiding place and returned to its After the money was secured the were given a sharp reprimand by the Justice and Marshal and told to get out of town and not stop to camp until they had got more than five miles under penalty that if they did they would be brought back here and locked upu The sentence they got is all yet while they should haye been the town and the county is better off to be rid of leaving Williamsport they drove over to where or one the females and a boy committed a similar They were arrested and a fine and costs imposed upon which they and the gang was allowed to go on their on jury in the Fountain circuit court Friday returned a verdict of guilty against Willie of who was on trial charged with He was arrested in Danville a few weeks ago charged with forging the name of Lew a prominent Fountain county to a check which he cashed at J. Frank store in Layton threw a fit in the court room when the verdict was read and it was some time before he revived sufficiently to be taken to He will be taken to the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville to serve a sentence of two to fourteen
