Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1907 — Page 2

THE D AILY DEMOCRAT. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier $5 00 Per month, b ymail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur Indiana, as second class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. Local grain dealers insist that they handle wheat on a margin of two cents after the freight is paid, but the fact remains that they only pay eighty five cents, While Ossian. Ft. Wayne and other places in this neigh borhood pay eighty-eight cents or more. Do these men lose a cent or more ou every bushel they handle? One would think that if this were true they would soon be ready to quit for many thousand bushels are handled each year. What’s the cause? Where is the difference? That’s what the Decatur business man w’ants answered and answered quick. We admit we don’t know, but we do know these conditions exist. We also know that the only way to correct it is for the business man to show some interest in the question. It's for you we are fighting, as well as every other citizen of the county. Our grain dealers say they belong to the same association as does all the surrounding towns. It must be a loose affair that quotes prices whereby one city can pay five cents more per bushel than another. The local dealer has an argument to produce and we are willing to give him due credit, but this don’t help any. What Decatur wants to make it a prosperous city is higher market prices and what we want to know now is how to get them, not only on wheat, but likewise on all other kinds of grain, stock and country produce. Let’s talk it over sanely, and do something. What are we going to do this week toward making Decatur a better and busier sown? The vjarious associations could assist if they would, by dissolving their trusts, so far as buying and selling prices are concerned. Several businessmen tell us they are getting tired of this campaign—so are we—but it’s not our fault Correct the evil and see how soon we tuin our ■ booster" editor loose and lock up the "knocker." Think it over. Watch the markets and figure it out for yourself. It’s an age of combinations, and still every business man complains of hard times. Perhaps that accounts for it. We haven’t said much in this campaign yet Only a few suggestions to make the parties concerned think a little. This should be enough to cause a correction without further publicity. However, we have some more data which we may have to print We may find it necessary to tell when and

why these combination were formed, to explain the difference in conditions then and now. To show that the tariff needs revision at home as well as nationally. We could fill columns with the incidents that have been furnished us —do you want them? Do you want to know the names of bankers, business and professional men who buy and sell out of the city because they do better? We can give them to you. These conditions actually exist, and we tell you that every business man and citizen of this cowunity should be interested in this campaign and is affected directly by the result. There is no spite work in this campaign. We believe we are right and hundreds of people believe it also. We are for Decatur and Adams county, first, last and all the time. SEVEN TO THREE (Continued from page 1.) Score by innings— Bluffton 00301000 3 —7 Decatur 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 o—30 —3 Summary— Two base hits—Eichler. Struck out —By Geyer 3; bv Boyd 3. Base on balls—Off Geyer 2; off Boyd 1. Left on bases —Decatur 4; Bluffton 3. Stolen bases —Behringer. Passed ball —Speicer. Time of game—l:3s. Umpire—France. Scorer —V aughn. NOTES. It was a hot contest according to the thermometer. The game was rather listless, owing to the fact that coaching was barrel, and the ginger was thus lacking. The game was played in one hour and thirty-five minutees. which is one of the fastest games played so far this season. The crowd was one of the most orderly that has ever attended a game at the park and the management is to be congratulated upon the success of the same. Ryan, the left fielder, for the Bluffton team, is a scrappy player, and in connection is a good man. He is after everything that comes his way,and can hit at a fast clip. Winger caught his usual steady and brilliant game,and made one stop with men on bases that might have result|ed disastrous. In making this stop he was forced to dive headlong across the plate and when he came up he had the ball. The locals at times yesterday play’ed indifferent base ball, and. in fact it might have been called dumb base ball. What the cause was no one seems to know, and is unexplainable. Come on, boys, get together and perfeet your team work. Wallace played a brilliant game at shortstop, and made several pretty stops. The shortstop position is nowbeing covered in excellent style and with Behringer on second they make a good team. Behinger and Weber lead the team in hitting, each batting at a five hundred clip. Boyd pitched a steady game, and was deserving of a victory. His teammates backed him up in excellent style and everything that was within reach was eaten up. Dunkirk has lost Wolfe, considered one of the best catchers in the gas belt. He asked for his release saying he intended to return to his home at Muncie, but it’s a good bet that he will appear in a few days on the lineup of one of the nearby independent teams. Dunkirk has been steadily losing her best men recently and if this state of affairs continues, she will soon have lost her prestige in balldom. o— WANTED —A farm hand; good wages steady work. Inquire of Henry Krick. ’ 173-6 t CARD OF THANKS W’e desire in this manner to thank our many kind friends and neighbors for their kindness and assistance during the Illness and death of our beloved wife and mother Wm. Pillars and daughter.

HISTORY CHAPTER (Continued from Page 1.) pies a floor area 78 feet by 103 feet in dimensions. The boiler room is 42 feet by 68 feet in area and the balance of the building is divided into an engine and a transformer room. Boiler Room. The boiler rom equipment consists of three Stirling boilers of 227 horse power rated capacity each. They are arranged in two banks and work under a steam pressure of 150 pounds. Each boiler is provided with an iron smokestack. 42 inches in diameter and 85 feet high above the grate surface. Two Platt Iron Works boiler-feed pumps, 7 and 4% by 10 inches are located between the two banks of boilers. They receive supply-water either from a 3,000-gallon storage tank or direct from the heater. At the rear of the boilers is located a 1,000-horse-power Cokson heater, a storage-tank 8 by 10 feet and a condenser pit 6 by 10 by 24 feet. Water is obtained from the St. Marys river about 100 yards from the power house. A main service pipe. 15 inches in diameter, leads from the river to a well, 25 feet deep and 10 feet in diameter, which is located in front of the boiler room. An 8-inch suction pipe leads from the well to the condenser. Between the boiler and engine rooms a partition wall, built of concrete blocks, extends from the floor to the roof, dividing the building into two fireproof parts. The engine room floor is elevated six feet above that of the boiler room. The foundations supporting the engines and generators, are of concrete. The generating equipment consists of an 18 by 36 inch Buckeye engine of 675 horse power capacity, which is operated at 125 revolutions per minute. Alternating current is generated at a line pressure of 6.600 volts and is fed direct into the wire, at the south side of the power house a transformer room 14 by 30 feet in area has been provided. In this room is located one Westinghouse 200 kilowatt step-down transformer, which is used in reducing the line pressure from 6,600 to 550 volts alternating current for use on the trolley wire within the corporate limits of Decatur. Overhead lines —The overhead construction is of the catenary type and is composed of a No. 0000 grooved trolley wire suspended from a 7-16 inch galvanized iron wire cable which in turn is supported by T-shaped iron brackets. Ordinary span-wire construction is used. The poles used in the pole line construction are 30, 35 and 40 sot lengths, except in towns, where they are 55 and 65 feet long. In addition to the trolley wire these poles carry telephone and signal wires. The cars are dispatched by telephone, the dispatcher's office being at Decatur. At Ft. Wayne, where the company's cars enter upon the city tracks of the Ft. Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction company, the direct current of the city is used. Substantial line circuit breakers and a dead-line span 200 feet in length are provided where the connection is made. Westingi house type A oil switches are used for cutting the current in or out on the deadpiece of trolley. This precludes the danger of high voltage overlapping onto the low voltage direct curren construction. A similar arrangement! is made at Decatur.where the low voltage is substituted for the high voltage. In running in either direction cars are brought to a stop with the trolley bow or wheel on some part of the dead section. After the circuit breakers have been passed and the switches are again opened, the car is allowed to continue its journey. Car Barns. The car barns, rectangular in shape, occupy a floor space 31 by 151 feet. The walls are 24 feet high. This building is also constructed of concrete blocks and is so designed that an addition can be built on to the west or south sides without interfering with the general layout. Two tracks enter the building from the east side. Concrete pits are provided under both tracks at the front of th ebuilding. ‘ The shops are equipped with tools necessary for doing car repair work. Equipment. The car equipment at present consists of three three-compartment pas ; senger cars 53 feet in length and one . express car 48 feet in length over all. The cars are each equipped with four Westinghouse No. 106 alternating current quadruple motors each of which has a rated capacity of 75 horse power. They are designed to operate successfully with either alternating or direct current. Personnel. The general offices are located at Decatur. The organizers of the company and the officers are: President and general manager. W. H. Fledderjohann; vice-president and general counsel, J no. H. Keonig. St. Marys, O.; Secretary, B. A. Fledderjohann. NewBremen, O.; treasurer, M. H. Wilson, Cleveland. O.; general superintendent. T. W Shelton; superintendent of construction, Edwin Fledderjohann. The Decatur interurban station is in the Morrison block, corner Second and Courts, which was remodeled for the purpose. Besides the interurban station, each

of the three railroads has a depot the G. R. & I. having recently built a pretty little brick structure on Seventh and Monroe streets. The Clover Leaf and C. & E. each occupy the old buildings constructed when the roads were built, and are sadly in need of modern structures in keeping with the growth of the city. (To be continued.) o— — NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given that on the 4th day of June. 1907, the Common Council of the City of Decatur. Indiana. adopted a resolution declaring it was necessary to construct a sidewSik on and along the following route, to-wit: Commencing on the east side of Eleventh street in the aforesaid city, thence east along the north side of Elm stret to the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad to the east side of said railroad track, there to intersect with a sidewalk already constructed; said sidewalk to be four feet in width and to be built of either good, first class brick or cement, according to the plans and specifications now on file at the office of the city clerk, and fixing the council chambers of said city where all presons whose property may be affected by the construction of sidewalk may be heard at seven o'clock p. m„ on the 6th day of August, 1907. CARL O. FRANC E. 176-12 t City Clerk. o NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given that on the 17th dav of July, 1907. the Common Council of the City of Decatur. Indiana. adopted a resolution declaring that it was unnecessary to construct a sewer on,and along the following route to-wit: Commencing at a point on Decatur street where the alley between Marshal and Indiana streets intersects said Decaturstreet,where the sewer is now- located, thence running east to Fifth street and there to terminate. Said sewer to be known as the Myrtle Chronister sewer and to be constructed according to the profile, plans and specifications now on file’ in the office of the city clerk and fixing the council chambers of said city, where all persons whose property is affected may be heard at seven o'clock p. m. on the 6th day of August. 1907. CARL O. FRANCE. 176-12 t City Clerk. o— Rev. Bergman went to Ft. Wayne this afternoon on business. Property for sale. 215 south Ninth street. Inquire of George Wertzberger. Homer Merica, of Huntington, is in the city the guest of relatives for a few days. Forepaugh and Sells brothers’ showwill be at Bluffton in the near future and no doubt will be well attended. Frank Bradley, of Auburn, returned to his home this afternoon after being the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kennedy over Sunday. The funeral of Mrs. William Pillars was held at the home yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. C. B. Wilcox officiated. Interment was made at the Decatur cemetery. Yesterday afternoon everything was unusually quiet in the city for the reason that the people were either taking in the ball game or visiting at some other place. A young man by the name of Conners. of Ft. Wayne, while bathing in Lake Sylvan, at Rome City, drowned yesterday. His body was trken to Ft. Wayne for burial Why can’t Bluffton have an illuminated dial for their town clock? There is no reason on earth. The prettiest and one of the best situated of all Indiana cities, we are the -only one who has no up-to-date clock. Even Hartford City, ten years’ behind the times, and the little isolated village of Decatur. way over in Adams county, have them. At the present time the west face of the clock is broken and to be fixed requires a new dial. Wires are now placed for the purpose and have been since the building of the court house, this being a part of the contract. It was stated today that but three hundred dollars would be required for the repairs and a first-class timepiece would be the result. —Bluffton Banner. o Money to loan on farms at low rate of interest No commission. Partial payments allowed and interest stopped. DORE B. ERWIN, Tues & Fri Attorney-at-Law. o Quick relief for Asthma Sufferers During the summer kidney irregularities are often caused by excessive tend to the kidneys at once by using Foley’s Kidney Cure. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o WANTED—-All your cement work. We guarantee to do your work honestly and at a fair price. Satisfaction guaranteed. All kinds of cement and concrete work done. Tom Peterson & Co. ts Stimulation Without Irritation That is the watchword. That is what Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does. Cleanses and stimulates the bowels without Irritation in any form. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o AN AUTOMOBILE BARGAIN. FOR SALE—A Wild’s runabout automobile In first class condition. The owner wants to sell it that he may purchase a touring car. Just the thing for light travel. You can buy this machine for $275 and it’s worth twice that. Inquire at this office.

LAST CHANCE To those who have not partaken of this great feast of bargains. This week is your last chance YOU KNOW a dollar saved is a dollar earned, and you cannot in justice to yourself fail to take advantage of this great mid-season sale. Sale Positively Closes SATURDAY tHEIHUb DECATUR. IND. One Price Clothiers and Furnishers B. Kalver Clothing Co.

Real Estate Farms and city property to sell and buy. Call and see my list. Here is a few of our bargains: 128 acres 1% miles of Decatur, good improvements, for $75 per acre. 93 acres for $6,000 in 2% miles of Willshire. 120 acres, 5 miles of Decatur, good improvements, $70.00 per acre. 40 acres, 3 miles of Monroe, good buildings. Price, $3,600A fine house all in good shape on Mercer avenue at a bargain if sold soon, and many others in all parts of the city. Call and see our list I. L Babcock & Ward Decatur. Ind. All nations are endeavoring to check the ravages of consumption, the “white plague" that claims so many victims each year. Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds perfectly and you are in no danger of consumption. Do not risk your health by taking some unknown preparation when Foley’s Honey and Tar is safe and certain in results. The genuine is in a yellow package. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. o— The Woman s Relief Corps will give an ice cream social Saturday evening in front of the meat market of Simeon Hain on the newly constructed Madison street improvement. The sosial is given for the benefit of the order and all are cordially invited to attend. 173-3 t o WAS IN POOR HEALTH FOR YEARS. Ira W. Kelley, of Mansfield, Pa., writes: “I was in poor health for two years, suffering from kidney and bladder trouble, and spent considerable money consulting physicians without obtaining any marked benefit, but was cured by Foley’s Kidney Cure, and I desire to add my testimony that it may be the cause of restoring the health of others.” Refuse substitutes. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. The Eagle Saloon Madison street, north of Court House L. L. BHELINE, Proprietor. Best liquors, fine winos and cigars. GIVE U 8 A CALL.

BASE BALL Hartford City vs. Decatur AT THE DECATUR PARK Tuesday and Wednesday JULY 23 and 24 The Hartford City team, reorganized, is one of the strongest in the state, having defeated the famous Dunkirks and other good ones Decatur will likely try out a new pitcher. Don’t fail to see these two bigigames. Admission 25c, Ladies 15C Game Called at 3:30