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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
4
Greensburg Standard outlines subscription terms for one year within and outside the county. Payment in advance is required to avoid a 1.50 surcharge, with the base price 81.00 and 1.2 noted as part of the rate structure.
The Indiana teachers reading circle enrolls nearly fifteen thousand educators yearly and selects books with care. A notable coming year feature is The New Harmony Movement by George B. Lockwood, with praise from Dr. W. T. Harris. The book surveys New Harmony social experiments in Posey county and traces origins of later movements.
Congressman Watson of the Sixth District said James P. Goodrich of Winchester will seek re election. He predicted Goodrich's retention. Rumors say Fairbanks aides favor a new chairman who could win again in 1908, aiming to shape state politics.
June four TOKhIO report Vice Admiral Toga visited Vice Admiral Rojestvensky at the Sasebo naval hospital to express sympathy for wounds. He praised Russian courage and expressed hope Rojestvensky would soon return to Russia. Rojestvensky was moved and thanked him, congratulating Japan on the sailor's courage and patriotism.
Sunday service began at two oclock with a memorial address by Rev F W Sumner praising Odd Fellows for unity and purpose. He cited the Home project funded by fifty cents per member, highlighting friendship love and truth as core principles. Solo and quartet performances followed before the brothers ended with a march to the close.
Greensburg Lodge No. 148 E of P's met in the castle hall at three o'clock and listened to Hon Merrill E. Wilson of Elkhart deliver an eloquent address on Pythianism as a lighthouse between faith and doubt. A quartet sang Nearer My God to Thee and brothers decorated graves with flowers.
Clay Township public schools held their commencement in Burney Baptist Church. The program featured class motto Good Fortune is the Companion of Courage with music, reflections by Rev. Root, student recitations including How He Saved St Michaels and The Traitors Death Bed, and diplomas presented by Edgar Mendenhall. Prizes went to Harry Robbins first, Orie Brunton second, and Susie Williams third.
A reflective meditation on vanity and self image as Socrates advised youths to seek mental excellence to balance appearance. The piece notes both women and men are drawn to mirrors with varying attitudes and jokes about shaving glasses and the cheval glass as symbols of vanity.
A London News piece recounts banker antics to delay runs. Subscribers entered one by one as managers painted doors. Banks showed inverted tubs of gold to appear rich. In Buenos Ayres a run led deposits to be moved via an underground passage between two connected banks, preserving perceived solvency.
A clergyman can marry yet live single. Cross stitch is the most al tempered work for women. Sentries are like day and night because when one comes the other goes. If girls were cast adrift on the sea they would steer for the Isle of Man. A pack of cards is put on the table often cut but never eaten.
The article argues the Democratic Party may be led by its worst elements and mob passions, predicts stronger unity if it surrenders to its majority, and warns that a socialist opposition could provide a needed tonic for the Republicans amid hostile voter behavior noted by the Minneapolis Tribune.
The Washington Star comments that three men hamper progress on the railroad rate problem. One would push for government ownership, another would polarize the Republican party to elect a Democratic House next year, and a third would use the issue to secure Republican endorsement at the polls. The first has a mistaken view, while the others undervalue the issue’s true nature.
The Le wiston Journal recalls an informal McKinley era understanding that all nations be treated alike in the Philippines and urges rapid domestic harmony through protective measures to avoid trouble from differing standards of life in our own territory.
The Springfield Republican notes the financial and commercial world expects ten more years of prosperity. It questions whether the Republican leadership has decided to leave the Dingley Tariff Law untouched for a period.
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