Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 April 1895 — Page 1

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Haworth and Hamilton

CORN PLANTERS

With the old and tried Haworth Checit-Rowers are just what you want to put in your corn. We invite all to come and see them.

Daisy Spring Cultivators,

Disc, Spring and Spike Harrows and Cultivators, Hardware, Paints, Belting, Oils, Etc.

H.R. TINSLEY & CO.

The Court House Clock

Is Under My Care.

I can also take care of your watch. It ought to be cleaned on an average of once a year.

m. c. KLINE,

Jeweler and Optician.

Do You Raise Corn?

.y. $ioo for Fourteen Ears of Corn. Do You Want to Get It?

CALL ON

JOE E. FISHER,

The Hardware Man for Full Particulars.

Hercules Dynamite,

The strongest and safest explosive on the market. Call for a memorandum book.

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been at thA bead of my stud for the past four years &od has produced more first prize wlnnlnc? and high selling: colts la the same time than any other stallion in the county of similar breeds. Weber will stand all ohe season at Insley's stable in Crawfordsville.

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nanJ 7?r,7 Wetallion, which was first winner at Crawfordsville fair 1894. will Stand at Linden, Monday and Wednesdays at my larm Tuesdavs and Thursdays Friday and Saturdays at Insley's stable In Crawfordsville.

enough and stepped high enough not only to win lirst ana sweepstakes, also first and second on his sucking horse and mure colts, also first and second on his one-year-old colts at the Crawfordsville fair for the past two years but has won more first prizes, grand sweepstaKes aud gold medals at the largest shows In the United States lor the past four years than any •other draft stallion in America, Scarcllffe Stamper will stand all the season et Insley's livery staoie.

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of the above named Stallions will stand at $10 to insure mare in foal

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R. A. MURRAY, Foreman. L. W. COCHRAN, Prop.

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VOL. 48—NO. 16 CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 19 1895.—TWELVE PAGES

NATURAL GAS.

Superintendent John McAlevy Makes a Statement Concerning the Past Service and Informs Us As to What May Be Expected in the

Future.

GREAT IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE.

New Wells to He Drilled, Larger Pipes to Be Used in the Field and tlie Friction of Transit to Be Guarded

Against— Something of Interest to All.

THE JOURNAL, knowing tliat there was a wide-spread inquiry among its readers in the city as to the ability of the Natural Gas Company to supply its consumers during the coming year, sent a representative to the company's office with a view of learning what, if any, arrangements the company was making looking toward abetter supply and to get their idea of the gas situation generally. Upon the reporter stating the object of his visit and outlining the information wanted by several questions, Superintendent McAlevy made the following statement: "No one regrets more than the management of this company that it was unable to furnish a full supply, of gas during the colder days of the past Winter. This regret is more pointed as it was our first failure to meet the expectations of our patrons. Three years of exceptional success in the management of our affairs had, in a manner, led us into the way of thinking that perhaps we would entirely escape what every other gas company has had to meet, sooner or later, viz: The day when the supply provided would not equal the demand. "I know that many think that the cause of the deficiency was our adding consumers without proportionally adding to our supply many stating that we should not have undertaken to supply DarlingtoD. This is a mistake that may be clearly seen if we look at the facts. This company guages all its wells once each month, thus getting a basis upon which to base estimates of the output of the wells, as the volume of gas produced by an ordinary gas well is too great to admit of it being actually measured. All statements of the number of cubic feet of gas produced are but estimates and are but approximately correct, but as a basis of comparison they are, if obtained in the same way, always correct. For example: If a well, full open, shows a certain pressure and from that we calculate it produces three million feet, it is correct to calculate that any number of wells, showing the same pressure under the same conditions, will each produce three million feet. I make this explanation to show that while our figures of our production are but estimates, they are, when used comparatively, absolute correct. "Our gas production as shown by guages carefully taken on Jan. 1, 1894, and compared with our consumption as shown by our accounts on the same date, showed that at that time we had a supply from 40 to 45 per cent, in excess of the demand or, in other words, we had nearly a half more gas than we needed. You will bear in mind that at this time Darlington was being supplied, haviDg been using gas for over four months. Our gas production taken one year later, Jan. 1, 189C, and compared with our consumption as before, showed that we had added 19 per cent, more to our supply than we had added to our demand. After deducting the correct amount for depreciation in output of the old wells, thus showing that we had on Jan. 1, 1895, 60 odd percent, more gas than our consumption demanded if figured on the conditions of the year before. The figures from which these deductions are made were taken from our books and are correct. While they are not public property and we, for good business reasons, decline to publish them, they were compiled especially for the use of the Coundil's investigating committee, to be used and verified by them -under this one condition—that they were not to be published. That we were not recklessly taking on consumers without feeling that we could supply them is indicated by the fact that during the year past we declined to run a branch line to Ladoga,though offered rates materially higher than we receive in this city and a larce proportionate amount of business. "This much for calculations based on previous years. The forty days following Christmas, which hold the

thirty-year record for the longest continued cold weather, demonstrated that other years could not be used as a basis from which to calculate the needs of this year in the gas business that it made the same demonstration for other companies than ours is our best excuse. Sufficient to say, our wells stood this unprecedented drain upon them for seventeen days before domestic consumers were materially affected. Had the cold weather been given us in the usual doses of a week

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time we believe we would have come through as usual, as our wells would have had rest and some time in which to recuperate as it was, this drain continued until near the last of March, our wells yielding less and less pressure each day. "In the light of our experience last Winter and from guaging our field lines, which we did daily during the cold weather, we are convinced that we must arrange to supply this line from a much lower pressure in the field. To do this we must get rid of a large portion of the loss of pressure from friction in tin pipes between our wells and the head of the line at Sheridan, and must supply a greater volume of gas to offset this decrease in pressure. To this end, the company has already completed arrangements to take up its smaller lines in the field and replace them with a larger pipe to extend its 8-inch line at least three miles nearer its best wells and to contract for the drilling of a number of new wells. This drilling has already begun and will continue throughout the year. In addition to this, many minor changes will be made with the view of bringing our full pressure to the head of our line with as little loss from friction as possible. In the city, the weak points in our distributing system are only exposed in times of poor supply. A number were developed last Winter and adequate steps will be taken to correct them. "In conclusion I would say that a little thinking on the part of the community will lead it to believe that the Gas Company will make every effort possible to furnish a satisfactory supply. They have a large investment in this plant, only a comparatively small part of which is returned to them each year, in order that the investment may in the end be profitable, and that is "what they are here for they must give satisfaction to their consumers for a number of years to come. Ordinary business prudence would dictate that they make the service satisfactory if possible, as without satisfactory service their business would be lost and with it their dividends. Since the purchase of this plant by the present owners they have spent a large sum in securing territory for a future supply of gas. With territory to drill, money to drill with and a disposition to use it nothing but unforseen difficulties can prevent us from having a full supply in the future. "I wish to thankTHEJouRNAi, for the opportunity given us to make this statement and to personally thank its readers for the uniformly considerate treatment we have received at their hands in the past few months."

Death of Miss Ida Patton.

Miss Ida Patton, daughter of I. W. and S. J. Patton, was born April 9, 1866, and died April 13, 1895, at the age of 29 years and 4 days. She was a sufferer of that dread disease, consumption. The funeral was conducted Monday at Mt. Pleasant by Rev. Shuey. She was married to H. R. Davenport June 6, 1888. By this union the Lord blessed them with two bright children, one boy and one girl, but the boy crossed the river of death at the age of six months. She was left a widow November 10, 1891. The little daughter, aged 4 years, -still survives. The deceased joined the Christian church at Mt. Pleasant in 1886 and from that time has lived a true and devout Christian life, and was always ready to help lead others to see the shining light and the love of the Master, who doeth all things well. There are loved ones in Heaven to meet her. One brother and one sister were at the Pearly Gates to receive her spirit as it passed from this earth. She leaves father, mother, three loving sisters, one daughter and many other dear relatives and friends to mourn her loss. She was prepared for death and had no fear. "Her trust was all in Jasus."

Dear Ida, 'twas hard to give you up Hut God knows all things best, And while we are sad at heart.

You are with Angels and loved ones at rest.

One Hundred and Ten Miles 011 a Wheel. W. F. Sharpe returned from Boswell, Benton county, yesterday evening, with a church plan contract in his vest pocket, having made the round trip of 110 miles on a bicycle. He reports the roads as in a most excellent condition for cycling.

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The Scientific Temperance Instruction Department of the State has issued the following letter to school teachers:

Permit me to call your attention to the provisions of the Temperance Education Law passed by the Legislature of Indiana at its recent session, a copy of which accompanies this letter.

The law will become operative at the beginning of the next school year, teachers in the meantime being required to pass an examination on this new branch of study. While the law provides that oral teaching only shall be a sufficient compliance with its requirements, it also provides that this study shall be included among those •'regularly taught," such as arithmetic and geography. Such teaching would call for at least three lessons a week for fourteen weeks of each school year. Any thing less would not represent the spirit and letter of this legislation and would not be a pursuit of the subject as a regular branch.

Regular oral teaching of any branch demands the use of text-books by teachers, if not by pupils. The Indiana Series of Physiologies are so deficient in the instruction concerning the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and their effects upon the human system, that teachers can not comply with the law without resort to other books. The present contract for Physiologies with the Indiana School Book Company does not expire until July, 1890, so that no change can be made until that time. The text-book law, however, gives the State Board of School Boole Commissioners power to order, twelve months before the contract expires, a revision of text-books. Such order must be given this summer.

The following is the Scientific Temperance Instruction law: An act requiring instruction in the common schools and in certain educational institutions as to the effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics on the human system.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and their effects on the human system, in connection with the subjects of physiology and hygiene, shall be included in the branches to be regularly taught in the common schools of the State and in all educational institutions supported wholly or in part by money received from the State and it shall be the duty of the Boards of Education and boards of such educational institutions, the township trustees, the Board of School Trustees of the several cities and towns in this State to make provision for such instruction in the schools and institutions under their jurisdiction, and to adopt such methods as shall adapt the same to the capacity of the pupils in the various grades therein but it shall be deemed a sufficient compliance with the requirements of this section if provision be made for such instruction orally only, and without the use of text-books by the pupils.

Section 2. No certificate shall be granted to any persion on or after the first day of July, 1895, to teach in the common schools or in any educational institution supported as aforesaid, who does not pass a satisfactory examination as to the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and their effectsoupon the human system.

Section 3. Any superintendent or principal of, or teacher in, any common school or educational institution supported as aforesaid, who willfully refuses or neglects to give the instruction required by this act shall be dismissed from his or her employment.

Section 4. This act shalUtake effect and be in force from and after the 30th day of June. 1895.

Frank Nuckles In Luck.

Indianapolis Saithicl: Judge Baker, of the United States district court, Wednesday appointed Frank N. Nnckles, of Shelbyville, receiver for the Indiana Water & Light Company. The company owns the water and light plants of Shelbyvi'le and Warsaw. The receiver is appointed on complaint of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, of New York, holder of mortgage bonds. It is claimed that the 6emi-annual interest has been defaulted and that the company is insolvent.

Judge Baker required the receiver to take control of the two plants and to give a bond in the sum of §25,000. The salary of the receiver is limited to $150 per month.

The Chapman Meetings.

Ihe committee of arrangement are contemplating of pitching the big tent on the vacant lots on Pike street, east of Marshall. In ease this location is selected a line or lines of 5 cent hacks will probably be established during the continuance of the meetings to run from designated points on certain streets similar to street cars.

Marriage.Licenses.

James F. Foster and Susan Denman.

PART FIRST

THE ODD FELLOWS.

The Celebration a Great Success Although the Attendance Is Not What It Should He.

Owing to the very busy season the attendance from the country at the Odd Fellows celebration and instalation of the Crawfordsville Canton yesterday was not all that could be desired. However, when the visiting uniform ranks from Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Lafayette, Frankfort, Brazil and Greencastle arrived in the afternoon a large crowd stood along the line of march to witness the parade which was carried out according to the programme in Wednesday's JOURNAL. The appearance of the parade was excellent and that of the lodges in uniform exceptionally brilliant. The Daughters of Rebecca were out in force and added greatly to the success of the parade.

The business houses along the line of March were handsomely decorated and the utmost hospitality was extended to the visitors.

Hiram H. Stllwell Dead.

Iliram 11. Stilwell died at his home in Covington Wednesday at 5 o'clock p. m. of paralysis. He had been a sufferei with this disease for over two years, but had not been confined «to his bed until last July. He was born in Montgomery county March 10, 1830, on a farm about eight miles southwest of this city. He continued on .the farm until he was about 21 years old when he entered Wabash College, but did not graduate. He then went into the" grain business, which he abandoned in a short time, and entered Asbury University and graduated from the law department February 5, 1857. He returned to Crawfordsville and continued studying law in the office of Wilson & Wallace, and practiced in this county up to January, I860, when he moved to Covington and formed a partnership with Hon. S. F. Wood. This partnership last eight years. He served one term as prosecuting attorney and was the first Mayor of the city of Covington. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and had been for forty years, and over thirty years a member of the M. E. church. As a lawyer he stood at the head of the profession. Honest and upright he had the confidence of all who knew him. He was an indulgent father, good husband, and an excellent citizen. He leaves a wife and one son, who is of age. The funeral occurred this afternoon at 3 o'clock p. m. at his residence and was conducted by the Masons. Services by Rev. W. R. Mikels of the E church and A. R. Heath of the Christian church. THE JOURNAL extends sympathy to the family and friends.

4 The IVabagh Avenue Bridge. Contractor Slattery is pushing the work on the abutments of the Wabash avenue bridge and if doing an elegant piece of work. It will be the largest piece of stone work in the county when complete and Mr. Slattery proposes to make it the hansomest. He states that the masonry will be completed in June.

The city council would, perhaps, do well to take some action at once regarding the superstructure. A bridge of those proportions cannot usually be delivered under sixty days after the order is made, and the council should see to it that the superstructure is on the ground ready to place in position the day the substructure is accepted as complete.

Ladoga Lovers.

Frankfort Ncwx: Mr. Geo. W. Hedrick and Miss Rose Parks were united in marriage this morning, Judge Hinds officiating. The couple gave their residence as Ladoga, and acted in that nervous manner common to elopers. The News from information it possesses predicts that there will V*

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sprung on Ladoga society when Mr. and Mrs. Hedrick arrive home this evening. The young lady was quite prepossessing, and wore an expression of "Oh, dear! what-will-the-girls-say?" on her happy face, while George seemed to wonder if it would be as easy after all to "square it" with the old folks as Rose had assured him.

liulls Kgcape.

Wednesday six wild bulls escaped from a freight car on the Big Four track and went charging about town. Ihe police succeeded in impounding four of them, while two made good their escape. At last account the missing couple had not been heard from, although they were being sought for with diligence and with profanity.

aluatlon of Proptirty,

Assessor Maxwell states that the valuation of real and personal proper-

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about the same this year as it did last. Ihe value of some articles, especially stock, has depreciated woefully, but the gain along other lines will brine the average up.

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