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a = aart on North Vermillion County’s Best Advertising Medium exclusive Newspaper Best Job dtee — ‘THE CAYUGA HERA DO Vol.25 Cayuga, Vermillion County, Indiana, Friday, March 26, 1915. No. 39 aet The Poor Asylum Another grand jury has visited the county poor asylum and makes its re ort substantially as follows : We find that the county poor Asylum is as well kept as it can be, consider ing the depleted state of the buildings. Certain repairs are absolutely neces sary and must be made before the building can be put in a sanitary con dition by the superintendent. These repairs have been needed for some time and should be looked after at once in order to insure proper living condi tions for the superintendent and the inmates. We recommend the following epairs: to wit: That the plastering on the walls of the sleeping rooms be repaired and given a coat of paint. The present condition of the plaster adds to the un sanitary condition of the building by providing harboring places for insects which cannot be gotten rid of until such repairs are made. That an electric lighting system be installed in all the buildings on the farm. That the bathroom windows be pro vided with screens in order to insure proper ventilation during the summer months. That the sewers from the main building and from the closets be lengthened and terminated at a place at least forty rods from the main building. The present terminous is so close to the main building that the smells and fumes arising from the sewage are obnoxious, and injurious to the health of the inmates and the sup erintendent and family. That a substantial fence be erected around the cemetery on the farm. At the time of this report the cemetery is unenclosed and the stock on the farm is permitted to run over the graves. We also recommend that a suitable marker be placed at the head of each grave. We earnestly recommend that these repairs be made at once. They are absolutely necessary if any considera tion is to be given the health and wel fare of the inmates and the superin tendent and family. The present de pleted conditions of the buildings is a hinderance to the honest effort of the superintendent to keep the asylum and the farm in good condition. Wm. E. Osman, Ottie White, Bertie Barker, Geo. H. Robertson, Turner Hall and B. F. Harrison. Also in Police Court It would seem that our old friend Mel Brown cannot ‘‘get by’’ anywhere without some trouble. The latest is a little item in the Terre Haute Sunday Star, which reads: Melvin Brown, 48 years old, was fined $1 and costs for driving his jit ney bus past a street car at Seventh street and Wabash avenue while the car, it is said, was discharging pas sengers. He was arrested by Traffic Patrolman H. V. Jones early yester day morning. Brown came from Cay uga Ind., to operate a jitney bus in Terre Haute. Special Notice. I hereby notify parties who have been served, that Mr. Clair Van Duyn has re signed his position as manager of my horse, Sampson, and Jack, Gomez, and has turned all book accounts over to me and all settlements for service must be paid directly to me. G. J. MURKMANN. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Spinks of New town were Cayuga visitors on Sunday last. Mrs. Nathan Crothers visited her sister, Mrs. Harry Fortner, at Clinton, Sunday. Mrs. Elizabeth Stagg and daughter, Mrs J. S. Grondyke, went to Danville Tuesday and visited Lakeview hospital. The Royal Neighbors will give a box supper at the Woodmen hall on the evening of April 1, to which every body is invited. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McMurtry were called to Silverwood Monday on account of the serious illness of the former’s mother. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Peters left Tuesday by auto route for Indianapolis where Mr. Peters is staging an old time fiddlers’ contest. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin P. Miler enter tained with a birthday dinner, Sunday. The former’s mother and sister, Mrs. Ella Miller and daughter, Jessie, were guests. E. A. Miles, feld secretary of the state Anti-Saloon league, will deliver an address at the Presbyterian church next Sunday evening at 7:30. All are cordially invited to hear him. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stoneburner and children returned home Tuesday night from Danville where they were called Wednesday of last week by the serious illness and death of Mr. Stoneburner’s father. Mrs. Florence Watson was surprised Monday evening by a number of friends who gathered at her home with baskets filled with good things to eat. The evening was spent in a social way and was much enjoyed by all. The remains of Mrs. Amy Gallimore who died at her home in Danville were brought to Cayuga Wednesday and in terred in the cemetery at Fugene, be side that of her former husband, Hud son M. Rudd, who died here about three years ago. Spring has arrived by the calendar, Sunday being the opening day. Other harbingers of green grass and garden sass have been with us for some time. Now most of us are ready and longing for the balmy breezes and swelling buds and sweet-scented blossoms. Jimmie Wear and Greely Grubbs have an attack of the Michigan fever and expect to leave next week for the northern part of that state. They will look over the whole peninsula and if they see anything that suits will close in on it, and settle down to raising cranberries and cucumbers for the Chi cago market. The Domestic Science club met Thurs day evening this week with Mrs. Fern Miller. The program announced was “The Feast of the Nations.” The ladies appeared in costume , including many pretty oriental designs. There was a feast of rice, spaghetti, chile sauce, bon mots, ala this and table de hote that et cetera. “When Miss Lavica Hughes returned home from Easter Star chapter Tues day night she found to her surprise that her home was being occupied by a crowd of young ladies who had gone there early in the evening and proceed ed to enjoy themselves with an old fashioned taffy pull until the arrival of the hostess. After her arrival the rest of the night was spent in a slumber party. Those present were: Mrs. Ethel Barr and Misses Golda and Hazel Leach, Mabel Potter, Bertha Samuels and Verna Van Sickle. . Mrs. Mamie Yount was given a gen uine surprise Sunday when friends and neighbors gathered at their farm home, three miles northwest of Cay uga, bringing with them the makings of a big dinner. Th was the occasion of Mrs. Yount’s 36th birthday and it was a co-incidence that exactly 386 vis itors came to spend the day and enjoy a splendid dinner. The names of the guests present, besides Mr. and Mrs. Yount and three children, are: John Grumley and wife, A. F. Fultz and wife, Chas. Low and wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Kindermann and, two chil dren, Mrs Sallie Kindermann, Miss Wilhelmia Kindermann, Wm Cana day and wife, Calvin Canaday, Jacob Miller and wife, Mrs Antrom, Miss Godie Hebron, Susie Clark, Chas. Long, Mr. and Mrs. Dan , Pearson and five children, Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Hutchinson and two children. Teachers’ Pensions Becomes Law Vermillion county teachers who have been at it long enough and who have complied with all the other necessary conditions may get a pension stne time, a teachers’ pension bill having been allowed to become a law by the Governor, without his signature. The law provides for the establishment of a state teachers’ retirement fund to be supplied in the payment of annuities to persons engaged as teachers in the public schools of the state after thirty five years’ service, twelve years of which may have been in schools outside the state. A disability clause also is in the bill. The following schedule is provided for: Thirty-five years, #600 a year; thirty-six years, £ 620; thirty-seven years, $640; thirty-eight years, $660; thirty-nine years, $680; forty years, $760. The following schedule applies to teachers who are retired for disabil ity: Twenty-five years of service, $350 a year; twenty six years $375; twenty-seven years, $400; twenty eight years, $425; twenty-nine years, $450; thirty years, $475; thirty-one years, 3500; thirty-two years, $525; thirty-three years, 3550; thirty-four years, $575. Allowances were not made for less than one-half of a school year for disability. The retirement fund is to consist of a permanent fund, to be made up of rifts, grants, devises and bequests in money or other form, which the board of trustees may be authorized to re ceive; a current fund , to be made up of all interest on investments or de posits of permanent or current funds, assessments on teachers, salaries and sem-annual apportionments from the proceeds derived from the state school tuition, tax of additional amounts as are suficient to meet all annuities, benefits and other expenses in excess of funds derived from the two above named sources. Girl Mother's Awful Crime s“ The following brief account of the attempt of a young mother to hide her shame is from the Vermillion Demo crat at Clinton. It happened in this county last week and is a case almost unbelieveable and scarcely without a parallel. Margaret Hardesty, to hide her shame, attempted to murder her new born babe by throwing it into a water closet at the home of Thomas Board man Wednesday morning. She had, by tight lacing, concealed her condition up to the moment of the child’s birth, which occurred in the toilet. The babe was instantly dropped down into the vault, and to make sure that her work was complete the mother carried water from the house and threw into the vault to drown the child. Mr. Board man seeing the unusual moving and excitement of the girl, went to inves tigate and found the babe struggling in the filth. He rescued the baby while it was yet alive and called Dr. F. H. Beeler. But the torture and exposure incident to the treatment of the young mother had done its work and the child died in a short while. The girl is the daughter of respectable parents of Rockville and she came to Clinton in search of employment about six weeks ago. She worked a few days at the overall factory and then took a posi tion as collector in the office of the Connor McIntosh Transfer compariy. Neither her employers nor the Board mans, with whom she boarded, were aware of her condition. She is a little past eighteen years of age, and is rather prepossessing. The author of her ruin is a young man named Will Hickner, who lives at Brazil, it is claimed. For Sale—-Gonod steel-tire buggy and set rubber, mounted single harness. See Dr. KR. D. Chew at Clark's garage. If you wish to be dressed '‘from tin to toe’’ on Easter morning, buy a nice pair of those pumps at Whitting ton’s. --Early Rose, Six Weeks and gen uine Red River Valley Ohio seed potatoes. Get our ‘prices before you buy. ~-Galbreath Lehriner. Dr. Flaugher was called to go to Newtown yesterday and left on the af ternoon train for Melcott station. The call came from Seth Bacon who lives some three miles from Newtown and is well known here. The doctor did not know the reason for the call at the time of leaving here. Mrs. Mary McKee Dead. Mrs.* Mary Grondyke McKee died at the old home here in Cayuga at 3 o’clock Wednesday morning, March 24. She had been in failing health for a year or more past, as the result of advanced age and general weakness, so that the end came not unexpetedly. With her passes away the last of the original Grondyke family of this com munity, she being a sister of Samuel Grondyke and Ellen Grondyke, both de ceased. Mary Grondyke was born in Eugene January 18, 1842, making her age past 73 years. Her husband, Thomas D. McKee, died nearly twenty years ago, July 14, 1895. She lived practically all her life in this community and en joyed the friendship and high esteem of everyone. The surviving children of the de ceased are Stuart T. McKee, and Sam uel G. McKee, both of Cayuga, Mrs. Mary Malone of Cayuga and John D. McKee of Champaign, Ill. The latter with his wife and children arrived here Wednesday to attend the funeral, which was held this (Thursday) after noon at 2 o’clock at the home. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, having united with that organ ization in Eugene in early life. Rev. P. W. Walthall preached the funeral sermon. Burial was made in the fam ily graveyard on the Grondyke estate at Eugene. Suicide Has Relatives in Gayuga. Last Friday morning the news reached Cayuga from Covington that Homer Myers had committed suicide. A local interest was at once aroused from the fact that Mrs. Myers is the daughteer of Mrs. F..M Harrison, who with her son and daughters are running the restaurant in the opera house block here, and further that Mrs. Myers had been here during the week on a visit with her mother and family. Pearl Homer Myers ended his life early Friday morning. A shotgun was used to commit the deed, after he had tried a 38-calibre revolver and the car tridge failed to explode. The dis charge from the gun entered his left side and penetrated to the heart, caus ing death almost instantly. Myers had been in the employ of Will Schma, the liveryman, since last August. Prior to that time he and his wife were em ployed at the county farm. The de ceased was 37 years of age. He was married about eight years ago to Miss Myrtle Harrison. No causes are as signed for the rash act other that he seemed to be brooding over imaginary troubles, being haunted by a fear of losing his mind. New curtain goods just arrived at Dale Darroch’s. House-cleaning time—we have the material.— Bove Bove. —For paper-hangng, decorating and kalfemining see A. D. Connelly. For Sale — Milk cows. John W. Porter, Cayuga. —The per quart for red, yellow and white onion sets at Galbreath Schriner’s. —Ladies, when you buy your Easter hats, do not forget your footwear- Whittington’s. Wall paper, Alabastine, wall paper cleaner, paints and varnishes in all colors.—Booe Booe. The woman of today is as careful in selecting her footwear as her leg. We have a larger variety of styles in Oxfords and Pumps than ever from which to select and can certainly please you. ~Whittington’s. The many friends of Hon. Claude G. Bowers in this vicinity are always glad to know of new laurels won by the brilliant young orator. Mr. Bowers has never missed the opportunity to address a Cayuga audience in every campaign for many years past. The latest honor bestowed upon Mr. Bowers as a speaker, was his appearance in an address at the annual dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at Willkesbarre, Penn., on the eve of St. Patricks Day. Mr. Bowers and Tom Daly, the celebrated Irish character, poet and lecturer, were the principal speakers. Every St. Patrick’s Day Mr. Bowers is in demand in the large cities of the east, where he is known as one of the most eloquent of orators on the theme of Irish history, of which he has a vast fund of knowledge. The Hermit of Turkey Run. The folowing is interesting in its de scription of a peculiar type of man and in its reference to one of Indiana’s most picturesque resorts which is vis ited by many people from this vicinity every year: “John Lusk, hermit of Turkey Ran, aged 78 years, was buried Sunday af ternoon in the Lusk family cemetery, located on a knoll on the Lusk estate. For the past six years the famous re sort of Turkey Run has been in charge of Rowland Luke and Lawrence Mar tin, both of Covington. Many Cay uga people who have spent their vaca tion there will recall having seen Un cle John Lusk, who was pointed out to them as the owner of the vast estate on which is situated some of the won ders of the world. He was unmarried and lived the life of a recluse in a large brick mansion which stands on the brink of a high promontory that overlooks the bridge which spans Sugar Creek at the ‘‘Nar rows’’, one mile east of the famous Bloomingdale Glens, or more famil iarly known as Turkey Run. Mr. Lusk never sought to be sociable with his kin or his neglebors and let other folks alone and minded his own busi ness. Crackers and cheese provided his chief viands and he lived the sim ple life, though one of the wealthiest of men in that section. Dressed like a tramp, he would often take a car load of cattle to mar ket and return the same way, many times with hundreds of dollars in his pockets but no one would have expect ed it had they seen him on his return journey. Mr. Lusk owned a farm of nearly 1,300 acres on which was one of the finest tracts of virgin forest to be seen in Indiana. Massive oak, walnut and poplar have been preserved in it as he absolutely refused to sell a tree and disliked for hunters to tres pass on his premises. In the early twenties Saloon Lusk, his father, built the first grist mill in that region at the Narrows of Sugar Creek and a few years later he opened a general store. John Lusk was the last survivor of his father’s family of three sons and two daughters and since his mother’s death, 35 years ago, he has lived the life of a recluse, no one assisting him in the care of the old family mansion of brick, which stands as strong today as when constructed, sixty-five years ago. Rowland Luke will again have charge of the resort the coming sea son, having closed a contract with Mr. Lusk only a few days before his death. Do you want to see better times? Then do your share. If every man and woman in this country would start out tomorrow determined to start something, hard times in this section would disappear in a week or two. It is a simple matter. Hard times are caused usually by a shortage of work, which brings on a shortage of money. At the first alarm everybody takes a death grip on what money he has, and he hangs on until the eagle screams, the Indian yells, the godess of liberty faints,the buffalo grunts and Lincoln dies of suffocation. Nobody buys any thing that is not absolutely necessary. Needed improvements are not made. Debts remain unpaid. The whole com munity marks time. Suppose all of us started out right now to change all this. Suppose we decided to buy the things we have been doing without, and pay cash for them? Suppose we look ed around, picked out the things that needed repair, called in the workmen, set them at their tasks and paid them their wages on the spot? Remember not only you would be doing this but the other fellow as well. ‘Me would be buying from you or hiring’ you~—the money you spent would come back to you somehow. .It always does, when everyone is working. That’s what makes good times... We do not claim to know all about economics but we feel sure that if we all put our shoul ders to, the wheel the so-called hard times will become pretty soft. Its worth trying. Have a look around your place and see if you can’t find a job for some man to do. Put him to work and pay him. He will spend the money with the merchants. The merchants will keep it in circulation and in time it will return to its original source— to you.
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