Jackson County Banner from Brownstown, Indiana • Page 1

12 7 PAGES 12 PAGES VOL. LIX BROWNSTOWN, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19; 1928 NO. 38 AS AW ADVERTISING MEDIUM THE BROWNSTOWN BANNER COVERS JACKSON COUNTY THOROUGHLY HOLDER OF SILVER CUP. AWARDED BY INDIANA JOURNALISTIC? FRATERNITY. AS THE BEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN INDIAN 1 Co.

Auditor Jackson History County Banner Corn Contest Winners 5 Arrested For TKeft Of Corn Flu Halts Opening Of Court Makes Final Settlement The Jotter, Writing In Louisville Times, TeUs of Deer Stealing Feed From Farm Yard Near Brownstown Chas. Straunch Gives More Personal History. Moat Perfect Ear First Priae Martin Kuehn. Biggest Ear By Weight First Prize Wm. MeahL longest Ear First Prize Frank Oathout.

Grand Total of $378,350.29 Disbursed in the December Settlement. Seymour Youths Admit Guilt Before Acting Mayor C. W. Burkhart. Judge Cox Confined in Bed and Unable to Convene Court Monday.

County Auditor Samuel Carr has completed his December settlement of taxes, disbursing a grand total cf $378,350.29 to the state, county. Several Cases Hied township, and civil town amTMocal school corporations. This is $22,423 Jeffersonville, making his home in Charlestown for a year. Next he went to New Albany for two years. There I worked for George Wulf, who had a grocery in the Hedden Building, at State and Market streets.

1 George Cook, my with me. Then the war came, and like most young men we wanted to get -into it; -George and I went in 1862: George "did not- return. We had 'enlisted at Camp Noble; the old fair -grounds, now built over. I am told the first State Fair was held there about There was plenty of business then in New Albany. R.

P. Ma'n had a store on State, between Elm and Spring streets, and there long strings of those wagons called Connestogas more than Tbe amounts sent -to the stats are as Round-up by Officers Two Arrested at Their Homes Monday Night Other Three the Next Morning. Pour Seymour youths, ranging from 16 to IS years and one young married man, aged about 24, were Treasurer of State State tax, Clark mem oriaL state school, $10,487. Above are the winners of the corn contest conducted by The Banner. Only one prize a year's subscription to The Banner was awarded in each of the three classes, but second and third choices were made in each class, which are as follows: Second Most Perfect Ear Edgar statu.

Third. Most Perfect Ear Robert E. StahL Second Biggest Ear By Weight Wm. MeahL Third Biggest Ear By Weight Wm. Weinert.

Second Longest Ear Walter Hanher. Third Longest Ear George Peters. The first biggest ear weighed. 1 pound, 5 ounces; second, 1 pound, 4 ounces; third, 1 pound, 4Vi ounces. The first longest ear measured 13 inches; second and third, 13 inches each.

The Judge was Leonard Kuehn, who probably holds the only license in the county as ah official corn Judge. Entiles were all by number, and the names were not divulged to anyone, not even to Mr. Kuehn after he had made his final decisions, whose first news of the names of the winners will be when he receives his Banner this week. Mr. Kuehn is not only a competent corn Judge, but a good corn grower as well, having won several prizes in state contests and three in international corn shows.

As stated in The Banner, those who entered corn in this contest are entitled to their entiles and can get same any time by calling for them, but we cannot send them out by mail. There were twenty-three entries in alL not Including the freak ears, for which no premiums were offered. There were about sixty different ears of corn. Had our offer been for the best ten ears of white and yellow in each class, the display would have more than filled our show window. We appreciate the interest manifested in our corn contest and thank all who furnished entries for the same.

THE BROWNSTOWN BANNER. 57; Dunes park, fores'ry, Continuing his remarks about some early history of Brownstown, Herman Rave, Jef fersonville, writing for the Louisville Times, says: "You spoke about deer raiding a cabbage patch of a friend of yours," said Charles Strauch. "Well, we had something similar happen at our home near Rockport Back of bur house was a barn, and back of the barn a haystack for our cattle and horses. In winter when the snow covered the ground, the deer would resort to that haystack and eat their fill. "We did not shoot them, although, so far as I know, there Was no law against it.

We loved those beautiful, gentle creatures, and would simply drive them away as you do cattle. Of course that was seventy-five years ago, and there are no more deer in Indiana, and no more turkeys promenading on the road to Brownstown. "I remember when we boys had to pack brush to log-burnings. We'd pile it on and around great stacks of logs, five and more feet through; then when enough brush was cn top, it was set afire and that fine timber went up in flames. Just think what it would be worth now! "In 1859 father moved to Clark county, where lae had charge of a congregation in Charlestown in corn borer, soldier's memorial, agricultural board permanent endowment fund, would draw up and unload almost teachers' pension, Special Judge Clowe of Lawrence-burg Sets Hunsucker Ditch Case for January 29.

The usual penalty of contempt of court for in terf erring with court pro-ceedure held no fear for Old Man Flu, who invaded the home of Judge as. A. Cox at last week and without any respect whatever for the dignity of the law ordered the Judge to bed, with the result that he was unable to appear in Brownstown Monday and open the December, term of the Jackson circuit court. Judge Cox was taken sick with the common school fund interest, $4711 arrested Monday night and Tuesday charged with stealing corn, 58; docket fees, $126.00. Total, anything raised on a farm.

Nothing ever got away from Main's to go to Louisville. They held the trade for fifty miles out of town. and all admitted their quilt. There were other big firms in almost The first two, Wm. Engleking of Seymour and Wm.

Stockdill, living about four miles east of Seymour, $39218.52. The amounts disbursed to the va rious local, civil and school corpora tions are as follows: Driftwood Township every line of business. "I was a member of the volunteer Township tax, tuition, firemen of New Albany at one time road, special We used to get the old hand-pump school, $3253.15. Total, $7913.88. Grassy Fork Township engine out of- the enginehouse, at Spring and Fourth streets, and some thirty or forty would be tugging at Township tax, $559; tuition 43; road special school, (Continued to page 6) Air Company Plead Guilty to TunneltonTheft were arrested Monday night by Sheriff Otis Hays, Chief Misch of Seymour and B.

O. Detective Mc-Guerty. After being taken into custody and questioned by officers they admitted their guilt and implicated Roy Ballard, Forrest Carpenter and Ralph Hicks, (the latter married) all of Seymour. All plead guilty to petit larceny before Acting Mayor Chas. W.

Burkart, who had not rendered his final decision as to their punishment up to the time of going to press. The corn, amounting to about twenty bushels was stolen from Henry Sitterding, farmer, residing a few miles east of Brownstown. It is said that the guilty parties had been gleaning corn in that vicinity and after dusk would complete filling their sacks from Mr. SittercLng's cribs. Mr.

Sitterding made some personal Son Accidently Shot by Father Old Landmark BuiltBeforel861 Elects Officers sinking, $596.33. $6638.84. Brownstown Township -Township tax, tuition, road, epeciil school, $3368.65. Total $9481.94. Washington Township Township tax, tuition.

road, special school, $182636. Total, $5187.07. Jackson Township Township tax, tuition, $5388; special school, road, library, $283.37. Total, $15687.54. Salt Creek Township Township tax, tuition, flu while holding court at Bedford Friday.

He has since been to his home and may not be able to open court until the latter part of tbe week, if then. However, the court records are being kept up each day to a certain extent as preliminary proceedings in several cases are filed by the attorneys, for the consideration and approval of Judge Cox when he is able to attend court in person. Special Judge Chas. 'Clowe of Lawrenceburg was here Monday and set January 29 as the time for hearing the petition of John E. Hunsucker, et al, for a drain in Driftwood township.

It is thought that it will take about a week to try this case. In the case of the Seymour National Bank vs. Ida M. Deppert on note, the plaintiffs filed a motion of dismissal. New cases filed during the past (Continued to Page Six) Seymour-Brownstown Groups Or Three Eisle Brothers Change Pleas Sentence of One Suspended Ralph Weaver Receives About 15 or 20 Shot in Leg When Father Shoots at Rabbit.

Building Destroyed at Clearspring By Fire, Was Purchased Before Civil War. ganize Under Name of Southern Indiana Fliers. Because of Large Family. Everett, Edgar and Ray Eisle, bro A group of Seymour and Browns I road, special school, town men. who recently formed an sinking, $500.38.

Total, thers charged with the robbery of the Crawford Ingle store and the When The Banner, in its writeup last week of the burning of the Josephine Tanner an old landmark at Clearspring stated that the building must have been built sixty Crawford garage at Tunnelton on the $2771.58. Pershing Township Township tax, tuition, road, special school, sinking, $865.10. night of October 31, or the morning of November 1, 1928, Wednesday af ternoon at 4 o'clock plead guilty to or more years ago, it was not far Ralph Weaver, aged about 25, cf Brownstown township, suffered painful injuries Saturday morning about 9:30 o'clock, when he was ace'dently shot in the legs by his father, Thos. Weaver, while rabbit hunting. The two had started out together rabbit hunting and became temporarily separated.

While his father was walking along a ridge Ralph had entered some thickets at the bottom of the ridge. The father, not knowing his son was in the thicket, shot at a rabbit Jackson Co. Man: charges of petit larceny before Judge Total, $4131.80. from right. investigation but could not find where the corn had been sold, but later it was learned that some of it had been sold to tfee hominy mill and Woodstock mills at Seymour.

Seymour Grocer Commits Suicide Friday Night James A. Cox in the Lawrence cir Seymour Civil Town Corporation tax, $36,510. 90; hos cuit court. We received a letter a few days ago from Mrs. Pet Scott of Bloom-ington, in which she states that her father, Michael Clark, purchased the aviation company, held their first meeting at Seymour Wednesday night of last week when the follow-pf fleers and directors were elected: John Kieffer, Brownstown, president; John L.

Blish, Seymour, vice-president; O. L. Doud, Seymour, secretary and treasurer; E. M. Boss and Alva Hancock, Brownstown and Lynn Faulkconer and B.

F. Swain, Seymour, directors. Plans are under way for a ground school with J. E. Stork of Bedford, as pilot instructor.

Air taxi service has also been established as a part of the business. Everett was fined $10 and costs pital, park, sink toMakePayment In Damage Case ing, library, $3632.52. Total, $45231.56. and sentenced to twelve months on the state penal farm. In view of the fact that he had turned state's evi the property in 1861.

Mrs. Scott's letter is as follows: Seymour School town Special school tax, lo which came out of the thicket, when Bloomington, Dec. 14, 1928 Mr. A. J.

Brodhecker: The Banner which I received yes cal tuition, sinking, part of the load struck Ralph, who was off to one side of where the rabbit appeared. terday tells of the burning of my old home at Clearspring. I feel like The shot struck the young man on dence and has a wife and six children dependent upon him, one of the children being' a permanent cripple from infantile paralysis, his sentence was suspended. Sworn statements obtained from Everett, his wife and daughter Mary, disclosed that Edgar and Ray committed the robberies at Tunnelton and that they brought a portion of the stolen loot to Everett's home Shedrick A. Shutters, 68, Shoots Himself Financial Worry and Poor Health.

the legs sprinkling them with shot Emmet Lester Must Pay For Accidentally Burning Saw Mill While Stealing Gas. Emmet Lester of Jacksbn county I had lost an old friend. Michael Clark, bought it Attend Conference Dinner A number of members of Browns from the waist to the ankles. My father, the spring August of 25th Donaldson He was brought to the office of Dr. Chas.

Ruch, Brownstown, who town Lodge No 60, K. of attended a conference dinner held with Hermion Lodge at Seymour Monday of 1831. He enlisted in the same year in Co. G. and was killed at Ft.

February 13, 1862. He is treated the wounds after picking out 15 or 20 shot. The injuries were not buried at 57. Total, $38,716.16. Brownstown Civil Town Corporation tax, water and light.

street, sinking, library, $262.24. Total, $4933.16. Brownstown School Town special school, sinking, $891.65. Total, $7241.25. Crothersville Corporation, water and light, street, sinking, $773.95.

Total, $3446.52. Medora Corporation, lights, Total, $1602.86. night, at which several of the grand was hailed before Judg Miller in the Brown circuit court at Nashville to explain why he had not 'kept up payments for damage as previously officers were present to make talks. Shedrick A. Shutters, aged 68, for many years a grocer at Seymour committed suicide at his home Friday evening by shooting himself in the head with a 25-calibre automatic regarded serious.

BREAKS HTP Representatives were there from Clearspring. We lived there until in September, 1875, when my mother married C. T. Eshom. My mother gave the home to my sister, Mrs.

where It was exchanged for a Jug of "white mule." This transaction resulted in a portion of the stolen goods being found at Everett's home, the statements said, when officers Columbus, Madison, Vernon, Croth ersville, North Vernon, Commiskey, Mrs. Mary Rollins, who makes her home with her son, Bruce Rollins, Nashville, Medora, Cortland, Red W. L. Boyatt. In 1888 my husband, Adam Scott, was sent to that cir searched his residence Tuesday night, November 27.

ana family, near Clearspring, fell Sunday and broke her hip. She is getting along nicely. dington, San Jacinto, Scipio, Hous ton, Vallonia, Brooksburg, Union town, Kurtz, and Hanover. Ray, who is the only single mem cuit. He died April 29, 1889.

I lived there until 1897 when I sold the property to Mrs. Tanner. I am sorry the little old log cabin is gone. ber of the trio, was fined $10 and costs and given a ten months penal farm sentence. ordered by the court in connection with the burning of a saw mill in Brown county, belonging to Sherman Berry of Freetown, while Lester and Earl Pittman were trying to steal gasoline, concerning which the Brown County Democrat prints the following: "Emmet Lester of Jackson county, who was arrested and jailed here last week for failing to pay damages as ordered by Judge Miller, was taken before the court Saturday.

He paid $36, the balance due on his agreement, and his parole was extended four years and six months, on Lester's promise to keep up the Edgar, who has a wife and two Respectfully, Mrs; P. S. Scott. children, was assessed a fine of $10 pistol. He shot himself about 6:30 p.

m. and expired in about thirty minutes. Financial worry and poor health are supposed to have caused him to take his life. Coroner Wm. A.

Dick-meyer held' an inquest and rendered a verdict of suicide. Mrs. Shutters had 'felt for some time that her husband might end his life, and was careful to see that there were no weapons or poison about the house within his reach. Mrs. Shutters had seen the pistol, (Continued to page 6) Another Congressional Record Elevator Co.

Four Cases Of ChangesHands Rabbitlnfection Martin Tormoehlen Purchases the with he shot himself at the store, but when she asked him about it, he told her that some one had All. Responding to Treatment Stock and Business and John Beickman Buys Real Estate. left it there to be sold. Infection Comes From Dressing Diseased Rabbits Dec. 18 (INS) Friday evening he came home about 6:30.

He did not eat any supper and told his wife to lock up The business and stock of The Farmers' Co-operative Elevator the store. He also told her that he was getting old, almost 70, and that if he was not here in the morning There are today at least four cases payments of $2 each week. Lester's troubles began Saturday, June 23, when he and Earl Pittman were arrested by Sheriff. Wilkerson and Deputy Moore, after a saw mill owned by Sherman Berry of Freetown and located about 4 miles east of Nashville, was destroyed by fire. The men had been tracked to a vacant house, where officers found Lester suffering from burns about the body.

The men confessed to larceny and told of going to the mill to gat gasoline. They had a lantern with them. When they found the gasoline barrel they could not see how to pump It out, and one of them lighted a match. An explosion fol'owed and the mill and contents were destroy of Brownstown, which has been under managements during the of human tularemia in Indiana. All four cases are responding to medical past few years, has been purchased by Martin Tormoehlen, who assumed treatments according to reports.

he told her several different things he wanted her to do and even talked some of his funeral arrangements. charge Monday. The real estate, con Tularemia is a rare disease con He then wound bis watch and clock as usual and went to bed, but she tracted from infected rabbits. The disease is marked by high fever that may continue for weeks. did not know that he had the auto The four human victims of tula matic pistol with him which she had remia are: seen in the store.

sisting of business building and a full sized lot, 75x150 feet, was purchased by John Beickman. Mr. Tormoehlen, who formerly managed the business for the Cooperative Elevator will continue the business at the same stand and has revived the name of the Brownstown Feed Exchange, under, which this business was originally estab William Pritchett, who is being About 7:20 she heard a report of a pistol and rushed to his room. He treated at the Waker hospital at Ev- 1 ansville, Ind. His home is at Gary- was lying so quiet that she supposed she was mistaken, but upon turning ed by fire.

Pittman and Lester were brought to Nashville and jailed, end were taken before Judge Miller Tuesday. They plead guilty to petit larceny, Continued to page 6) on the light, discovered that her lished by Arthur Greger quite a husband had shot himself, in the Burglars? No, Just the and were fined $5 and costs and or number of years ago. right temple. She called for help The Brownstown Farmers' Co-operative Elevator was organized and some of the neighbors came in, and Dr. Chenoworth was called, but dered to pay $500 each to the owner of the mill.

They were to work for Mr. Berry to pay the loss." Family Cow the man was dying and expired at about ten years ago as a branch of the Seymour Co-operative Elevator and both were under the same 7:50. ELECTED COUNTS' SURVEYOR Funeral services were conducted directorship. 4 TO RESIGN AS CITY ENGINEER John E. Joliffe, newly-elected sur at the home Sunday afternoon "fol lowed by interment In the Riverview veyor of Johnson county, is expected to resign as city engineer here.

Files Suit For (Pleasantville Items) Sunday night Mrs. James Vaughn Should Mr. Joliffe resign from the was awakened just Deiore mianignt by a peculiar noise down stairs in $2000 Damage for local post, Hadley Thomas probably win be appointed, it is understood. Mr. Thomas, recently re-elected as the kitchen and concluded at once there were burglars In the house.

Removal of Timber county surveyor here, has voluntetred The peculiar part of it was they did cemetery. Mr. Shutters, familiarly known by his acquaintances as "Shade'', formerly lived at Tampico, moving from there about twenty-five years ago. He is survived by his widow and four children, viz: Mrs. Addle Smith, Raymond, Shedrick, and Robert, all of Seymour; also three half-sisters, Mrs.

Golds Baker, Columbus; Mrs. Geo. Vanpelt and Mary Shutters, of Gets Washington Job not seem to care how much noise they were making and from the rat Among the new suits filed In the tle of kitchen ware, Mrs. -Vaughn thought they must be after hef sil Jackson circuit 1 court tbe past week is that of Grace Hardwick vs. John verware.

H. Crawford, in which the plaintiff seeks damage of the defendant for alleged cutting down and removal of She awakened Mr. Vaughn and a son. who were sleeping on the second floor They crept down the stairs softly and veil armed -for attack, should the Intruders show fight. Harold Murphy, son of Dr.

and Mrs. Harry Murphy, left Thursday timber off plaintiffs land. The com to do the city'a work free of charge. Mr. however, can not do the work free of charge legally, according to those who have scrutinized the law.

If appointed, end is considered' likely if Mr. Joliffe re- signs, he will be paid by the hour. He turn this money over to the county as fees collected, however, and a part of this- money will find its way back into the city's coffers, it was pointed out Columbus Republican. Mr. Joliffe has quite a number of acquaintances tothis county, having been engaged at different times as engineer for street Improvements, Including the improvement of Spring, Grant and Broadway streets in 1 for Washington, D.

where Senator 1 Arthur Robinson has secured plaint alleges that since long before January 1, 1928, to the present date, she was the owner of certain real es Peering into the dining room what met their astonished gaze but ''Old the family cow which had Mm an appointment as doorkeeper In the Senate. As soon as th's ses tate In Vernon township. Jackson found her way in house an' open door and was contentedly sion of Congress is over he will receive a permanent Job in one of the bureaus. While there plans to attend a law school. He was in the nartakinar of a mid county, and that defendant, -without authority from the plaintiff, cut down 404 growing trees on said land and unlawfully hauled them away, which timber was valued at $2000 and she asks damage for that amount.

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