The Greentown Gem - 1935-11-08

              G. 0. P. CAPTURES M. E. MEN TO HOLD
THEIR RABBIT FEED
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SPIRITED CAMPAIGN BRINGS
OUT RECORD- SMASHING
NUMBER OF VOTERS
The big annual men's " rabbit
feed" is scheduled for the M. E.
church next Tuesday night. It will
be the eighth annual such event
and no chances were taken that
all the rabbits in the country
would be gone before the Metho-dists
got a crack at them for " the
law" comes in Monday.
Elaborate plans have been made
for the event and it is hoped that
e every man of the church will be
present for the feed. The evening
is designated as one " for eating
rabbit, having good fun and plen-ty
of wholesome entertainment."
Although the men themselves
are expected to furnish the rab-n
bits and the other " vitals" for the
n feed, the women of the Friendship
Y class again will prepare and serve
the meal.
Jost what the entertainment
feature, or features, will be is un-known
but the program is in the
hands of a capable committee com-posed
of R. B. Miller, Hanley Pick-ett
and Lloyd Green.
Other committees for the event
will be:
Rabbit committee captains— East
end, Russell Bagwell; west end,
Earl Turner.
General arrangements: R. P. El-liott,
C. D. Callis and Pearl Shock-ley.
Tables— Glen Reed, J. 0. Hoch-stedler
arid Jack Hittle.
Pies— Joe Woods, Earl Mast and
John Frakes.
Cream and Milk— Frank Graf
Shafer.
ciatoes 	 Grant Woodmansee,
.: emer Middlesworth and Pearl
Besides the men of the church,
special invitations are to be sent
to all of the " guest speakers" who
have addressed the church during
the past few months.
ABOUT 30 LEFT OUT
Republican Leaders Jubilant Whil
Democratic Leaders See Big
Gains in Returns
Republicans swept into all tow
offices in Greentown Tuesday i
the first purely partisan electio
that: has been held here in man
years, winning all five seats on the
board of town trustees and the
town clerk- treasurship. A total of
Ga ballots were cast in the elec-tion,
a fact that can hardly be be-lieved
by any of the " old- timers"
of the town who estimated before
the election that a vote of " 400
would be an enormous turn- out."
The result of the balloting was:
For trustee, first ward: Floyd
D. Miller, Rep., 363; Perl Sweeny,
Dem., 236. Miller's majority, 127.
For trustee, second ward: Harry
Bagwell, Rep., 313; W. 0. Smith,
Dein., 284. Bagwell's majority, 29.
For trustee, third ward: Fay
Lamb, Rep., 322; H. E. Mayfield,
Dem., 277. Lamb's majority, 45.
For trustee, fourth ward: Han-ley
Golding, Rep., 355; T. J. Fenn,
Der.:. 242. Gnidir g' 	 113
e JP trt, tee, Fifth ward: , Agie
Osborn, Rep., 337; J. M. Petro,
Dem., 262. Osborn's majority, 75.
For clerk- treasurer: Lee Shoe-m*
aker, Rep., 358; Homer Hun- singer, Dem., 243. Shoemaker's
majority, 115.
The town " buzzed" as it has not
done for many months on elec-tion
day for both party organiz-ations
were " armed to the teeth"
in an effort to get out the vote.
The result obtained by the two
organizations was not only a sur-prise,
but virtually a shock to the
most schooled politicians. In prev-ious
purely town elections, the re-cord
high vote has been 378.
Pre- electon campaigning by both
party organizations and general in-terest
• in the few issues used in
the campaign have been attributed
to the record voting of Tuesday. In
view of the fact that the 1930 cen-sus
gives Greentown a population
of only 1,021, it still is hardly con-ceivable
that 620 ballots were cast
here. Those best acquainted with
the town who watched the polls
carefully Tuesday, are of the opin-ion
that somewhere between 20
and 40 eligibles did not vote.
Whatever that number, it was vir-tually
nothing compared to the
large number that did vote and the
town now figures itself a bit big-ger
than it has since those 1930
census figures came out.
This election, although a record
one in size and a record one in
party activity both on the day of
the voting and before it, was pro-bably
one of the most peaceful and
really " good- natured" that has eV"'' •
been staged here. True, report of
some bitterness between individuals
were made known, but party or-ganizations
litterally " worked their
head, off" and came out of the bat-
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! ackson Farm Bureau
Will Meet on Tuesday
The Jackson Township Farm
Bureau will meet Tuesday night,
, i( w. 12, at the Jackson school
uilding. An interesting program
as been planned by the program
tmmittee, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Green
d Mr. and Mrs. Armon Warnock.
The program is planned as follows:
Mrs. Norma Wintehode, Harrison
Township, Miami County, will be
present to give some original read-mgs.
The Jackson quartette will
; lye some numbers. There will be
a talk by Mrs. Effie Robinson, Con-
- erse, Mr. Harry Matlock, County
Membership chairman will be pres-ent
to give the outline of the mem-bership
drive. A report will be giv-n
on the meeting held at Union
Township where the state speaker
Mr. L. L. Needier, was present and
` e, liced on Organization.
Refreshments will be served.
BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. Lora Armfield are
the proud parents of a baby girl.
'' orn Tuesday, Oct. 29, weighing
, ine pounds and named Loretta
Ann. The mother was formerly,
Miss Doris Campbell.
BIRTH
Mr. and Mrs. Elden Tygart are
he proud parents of an eight pound
baby girl born Wednesday morn-ing.
She has been named Uneen
Sue.
FCLAND BROTHERS
FAIL TO WIN STATE
SHUCKING CROWN
Union Township's " corn-shucking
twins," Fletcher and
Frederick Foland, lost the state
championship in the state jun-ior
shucking meet near Tipton
Thursday, but captured second
and third. A youth by the
name of O'Day from Knox co-unty
came in toward the tail
end of the contest with 946.65
pounds net to edge out Fletcher
by 24 pounds. Fletcher had a
net load of 922.85 pounds while
Frederick had a net of a little
mote than 918 pounds. The Un-ion
boys were far ahead of the
next closest competitors. The
contestants were treated at a
dinner in the Tipton Christian
church Thursday evening after
the contest.
FORMER JACKSON TEACHER
MARRIES JONESBORO MAN
Announcement has been receiv-ed
by friends of the marriage of
iss Dorothy Michael, who was a
teacher in the Jackson Township
... h- ol last year, to Clayton Stiks
f Jonesboro. They will make their
', erne in Jonesboro.
BIRTH
Friends and relatives here have
rfeeived the announcement of the
hirth of a daughter to Mr. and
" Ts. Don Rivers of Kokomo, on
Thursday night, Oct. 31, at the
Good Samaritan hospital Th.
l-, as been na .7. ed Sherrill Elaine.
The mother was formerly Miss
,- enz, former resident of
Plevn-
: STATE TAX BOARD
UPHOLDS RATE IN
UNION TOWNSHIP
A ruling by the state tax board
at Indianapolis Wednesday left un-changed
the $ 1.56 tax rate approv-ed
by the Howard county tax ad-justment
board for Union town-ship.
At the same time the state
board decided to continue its in-vestigation
of the Kokomo civil
city rate before handing down a
decision on the appeal taken from
this levy.
Philip Zoercher, chairman of the
state board, heard appeals on the
city and Union township rates at
Kokomo Oct. 31. At that time Un-ion
township objectors based their
appeal against the $ 1.56 levy on the
ground that the trustee had a
strong chance of receiving $ 4,000
in state school aid and argued that
his budget should be reduced ac-cordingly.
Palmer Dean, trustee of the
township, replied that he had no
assurance of any kind as to how
much his township could expect
from state aid and Mr. Zoercher
Cctreed with him that that source of
revenue was uncertain.
Under the board's decision Wed-
, esday to make no change in the
Union levy, the rate for 1936 will
• tand at $ 1.56, and the county au-ditOr's
office will proceed to start
casting taxes for the coming year.
No work can be done on figuring
` axes of city residents until the
state board rules on the city rate.
The auditor received notice
Wednesday from the state board
that the recent additional appro-e
riations made by the county coun-
: ll including $ 6,500 for materials
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William L. Golding, a life- long
resident and one of the best- known
men in Liberty Township, died at
his home north of Greentown Tues-day
morning shortly before the
moon hour. He was seized with a
heart attack at about 7: 30 o'clock
Tuesday morning after having a-wakened
in apparent good health
and aided in the morning farm
chores. He rallied from the first
attack but a few hours later be-gan
to slowly sink away and died
about 11: 30 o'clock.
Two singular incidents in the
life and death of Mr. Golding are
notable. He was born on the farm
on which he died in a house only
a few yards away from the loca-tion
of the present home. His death
occured on his sixty- seventh birth-day.
Mr. Golding, although not a man
' ei p
0"., tav, , v a ._ ever
interested in the affairs of the
community and was a man of sound
and conservative judgment who
was called upon for council and
advice by all who knew him. At one
time he served a term of four
years as deputy assessor of Liber-ty
Township and followed that of-fice
into the position of assessor
for another period of four years.
in this connection, and by his ever-friendly
and kindly manner, he be-came
known to virually everyone
who lived in Liberty Township. To
every person within his vast realm
of acquaintanceship, he was known
as " friend."
Mr. Golding carried no lodge af-filiation.
For many years he and
Mrs. Golding were active members
of a United Brethren church near
their home. Later, with abandon-
I went of that church, connection
was formed with the M. E. church
in Greentown where their two
sons, Hanley and Cedric already
had become affiliated.
Mr. Golding's one love of his
life was his summer home at Lake
Chapman which he enjoyed with
almost childish delight. His most
delightful hours at his cottage,
however, was when he was enter-tanning
friends there whom he lov-ed
to have enjoy the place as he
did himself. Many of his more in-timate
friends here have spent
many delightful days there with
him on fishing trips.
Mr. Golding was the son of Dav-id
and Suzanna Golding, early set-tlers
of this township. His father
died when Mr. Golding was but
nine years of age. In March, 1889,
he was united in marriage to Della
Bradfield, the couple having been
school sweethearts. To this ur'el
was born five children, who, I th
` he i r wives. husbands and families,
WP!. L. GOLDING
CALLED IN DEATH
LIFELONG RESIDENT OF THIS
TOWNSHIP SUCCUMBS TO
HEART ATTACK
DIED ON BIRTHDAY
His Death is First Break in Fam-ily
Held Together by firm
Ties of Devotion
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