Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1912 — Page 1

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AWARD CONTRACTS City Opens Bids for Coal, Coal Hauling, Oil and Pipes Last Evening. REQUIRE MUCH TIME i Business Was Rushing and City Dads Work Faithfully—Allow Some Bills. > i An unusual amount of business re- ; quired the attention of the city solons in regular session Tuesday evening, when bids, as advertised, for the furnlsinng vi ecu! for the city's plant, the hauling of the same from the vari ous railroads to the city's yards, oil for the running of the citv plant for u period of one year, and the purchasing of water pipes to be used along Monroe street and elsewhere, were opened. There being a large number of bids filed, and a goodly number of representatives of their respective firms present, completely filling the council rooms, this work was at once taken up, so as to permit them to leave as early as possible, if they so wished. Upon motion the coal bids were opened first, their being thirteen in number. Having been opened by I the clerk and the quotations of each I taken, the council after caring for I their regular business, which was comparatively small, proceeded further in this line. A motion that the council I go into executive session was put. and I carried, all others being dismissed, and R the work of figuring the difference in f p rFe and the quality of the coal was F' at once gone over. Out of the thirteen | : bids there appeared only two or three | with which the council spent much I time, and a conclusion was then soon H reached. The bids in particular con- [ sidered were those of the Victoria EL Coal company and the Consolidated I Coal company. Both concerns gave t bids satisfactory to the city, but there I were some agreements in the conI tracts calling for better service and K protection to the city in case of a | strike, and securing of car service by L the Consolidation company that securK ed for them the contract. Both bids | stated that coal would be furnished to | city in the amount approximated, 5,- | nop tons at 90 cents per ton, f. o. b. at K.' the mines, plus a freight rate of $1.30 r.’. rn Ohio coal by the Victoria firm, while the Consolidation company, whose mines are located in West Virginia, quoted like figures, but with the freight rate of 11.55 to this city, or ' t-rpl of $2.45 per ton delivered. The large output of the latter company, the guarantee of prompt delivery in case ( »1 a strike or no strike, and always have coal at the city’s disposal, securt ed for them the contract. The bids for | the hauling of coal to the city's plant & were fhen taken up, they being filed I by John Thomas, who agreed to haul g it for 26 cents per ton, also to stand | for what demurrage may be caused ■ten bis cart ; .rotm W. Coffee, who was I awarded the contract one year ago, t agreed to deliver the same for 23 ■‘cents a ton. The latter’s bid being | the lowest, and whose service during Kthe past year had baen satisfactory to K the city, the contract was again 1 awarded to him for the coming year. Five proposals for the furnishing of oil to be used at the city plant were ■ then cared for and Iso required but ■ little time for the settling of this matter. The Union Oil Works ot Erie, ■ Pa., which has for four years received K the contract from the citv. was again ■ favored, their prices being tne most favorable and their oil has always proven as stated, and satisfactory to ■ the running of the city's machinery. ■ they were awarded the contract, to ■ furnish cylinder oil at 37 cents per i* gallon and machine oil for 18 cents. ■ Two b'da were filed for the furnishing i of six inch cast iron w ater mains, one | by the N .donal Mill & Supply Co., and ■ anothc-i by the United States Cast I Iron & Foundry company of Chicago. K The lat'er agreed to furnish the mains ft at $23.25 per ton, compared with $21.90 v by their competitor, and were given ■ the contract. The contract for furE nishing coal, which was turned over B to the waterworks commitee to conB tract, completed this work in the coun- ■ cil room, the representative of the I firm signing the contract at the time. ■ The contract for the oil was lett in E the hands of the purchasing conimitt. j tee, who will complete this part as soon as the necessary credentials can be sent to the company for their stgB natures. The contract for the pipe

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| was left to the waterworks committee, who will follow the requirements at once, so as to place the new contract in effect. The hauling of coal contract was placed in the hands ot ( the eleceric light committee, which 1 , will seetle this as soon as the con- , trading party meets the committee. Councilman Chronister asked that I the street commissioner be allowed to ; purchase drain tile for various uses as is necessary from time to time, and seven hundred were ordered to be secured for his service. A proof of 1 publication for the receiving of bids was filed and ordered spread on record. A resolution calling for the transI ferring of $718.83 out the the water- . works bond and interest fund to the sinking fund was adopted and same ' ordet c I to be done, as there are no debts to meet in this manner, and 1 which cannot be used to any other pur-' CONTINLCI/ ON PAGE TWO. COURT HOUSE NEWS Judge J. J. Moran of Portland Sits in Adams Cir1 I cuit Court Today. ) ALLEN COUNTY CASE I -JJudge Erwin Here—New Quiet Title Case--Realty Transfers. ———l 1 Judge J|. J. Moran of Portland sat in the Adams circuit court this morn- ! ing, he being special judge in the Al- , len county case venued here, in which ; the Alien County board of commissioners are suing Arthur Fast et al. for drainage costs incurred in the trial of the great Fast ditch case. Further issues were made in the case today. Among the Fort Wayne attorneys here was Judge R. K. Erwin. I * In the Striker-Meyer et al note and foreclosure suit, on leave of court, the I defendant, Christian Rich, filed an ad-1 ditional second paragraph of answer! to the plaintiff's complaint. _ - ■ ■ 1 In the matter of the petition for | ditch filed by Russel R. Long et al., 1 the bond was filed and approved. i D. E. Smith filed a new quiet title I case-entitled Aaron Ireland vs. Charles J. Nelson et al. Articles nf association were filed w.ih the county recorder by the Everett & Hite company, comprising John' Everett, Henry Hite, Lillie B. Hite and Eliza J. Everett. The association is for a period of twenty years, and the ' capital stock SIO,OOO, divided into shares of SIOO each. The purpose ot the association is cite buying and sell-! ing of merchandise, the owning, leasing and conveying of real estate relative to the carrying on of the business. The officers of the company will be! president, vice president, secretary | and treasurer, with, a board of directors. The directors for the first year are John Everett, Henry and Lillie Hite. ’ Real estate transfers: Frederick Hubnor to Peter O. Duncan. 80 acres, Kirkland tp., $19,000; John A. Harvey to John T. Price, 80 acres, Washing-' ton tp.. $12,000; John G. Price to John ' A. Harvey, 88 1-3 acres, Washington tp., $13,000; Catherine Rugg to Martin; L. Smith, quit claim deed to 110 acres, Wabash tp., $1; Margaret Koenig to Andrew J. Powell, realty In Washing-1 ton tp., $10,000; Seth D. Beavers to ] Andrew J. Powell, 80 acres. Washing- j ton tp., $10,800; Fred Koenig et al. to i A. J. Powell, realty in Washington tp., $12,540; Joseph D. Krick to Howard H. Kurtz, 80 acres, Washington tp., l $11,600; John J. Schuh to Fred Koenig, realty in Washington tp., $lO,-! 000; Charles A. Fuhrman to David Liby, realty in Preble tp., $1,300; Catherine France et al. to Charles W. Ya-j ger, lot 28, Decatur, $4,500; Richard Harris to James K. Tumkleson, 4 and 140 acres, St. Mary’s tp., $11,500; Owen Sells to John Schelman, realty in : Wash inert u tp., $1,100; Daniel Kisser . to Tobias Steffen, 30 acres., French tp., $1,650. c Licensed to wed: Lilly Biberstlen of Berne, born September 14, 1893, daughter of Peter Biberstine, to wed William Stuckey, harnes smfiker, Berne, born September 1, 1891, son of Nicholas Stuckey.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, March 6, 1912.

FUND FOR CHARITY Subscriptions Sent in to Aid Those Afflicted and Worthy of Help. CALL IS IMMEDIATE The Really Charitable Will Assist in a Worthy Cause —lt’s Up to You. One of the greatest pleasures of life is the giving to others, the rendering aid to the afflicted, lending assistance in hours of sorrow. Os course the township cares for its poor, but no official can give other than actual necessities, while we all know there are many little things that aid the sick or injured, but which could not be h called necessities. The person who is really charitable prefers not to have notoriety in such cases, but give in such manner as not to embarass or humiliate the recipient. For this reason and because an immediate necessity demands some money, suggestion has been made that a Charitable Fund be raised and deposited with some person to be selected as treasurer with power to give it when necessary, and • without further red tape. So far the fund has been left at this office and ;we will be glad to receive subscrip- , tions, assuring those who give that the money will be transferred to whoever shall hereafter be selected treas- i urer. The subscriptions received to- j day are as follows: Old Adams County bank $10.00: J. B. Holthouse 2.00 C. S. and J. D. Niblick 5.00 A GREAT COUNTY Jim Haefling is Now Going Over the County Books in Lake County. WONDERFUL GROWTH I — Second to Marion County— I One Judge Disposed of Nearly 900 Cases. James P Haefling writes us from 'Hammond, where he 's now located, going over the books of the county ' clerk and sheriff of Lake, as a state accountant. He says l ake is a remarkable county, has increased in i wealth and population so rapidly that it is now second only to Marion coun- ! ly. It has fine court houses at Crown Point and Hammond, with a circuit ■court and superior court at the for--1 mer place and a superior court at the latter. Judge Rider of Hammond disposed of 860 cases in the superior court alone last year, which gives some idea :of the business going on there. The population of the county is now over 100,000. Jim has his same old part- ■ ner and they expect to be in Ham- ! mond three or four months. Jim s I Hammond address is in care of the I Hotel Carlton, where he orders the | Daily Democrat sent regularly ' that he may keep in touch with affairs and people of old Adams. o AN ENDLESS CHAIN. The many changes in residences reported as taking place today, form the following endless chain: E. Mii- ' ler is moving to the Tumbleson farm: 1 the Tumblesons to the Harris farm. I and the Harris family to Allen county. William Fulk, who sold his farm in Kirkland township to DeWitt Zimmerj man, is moving to Wells county; Mr. Zimmerman is moving to the Fulk ‘ farm, and the tenant of the Zimmerman farm is mqvlng to the Leonard farm; the Leonards are moving to the J-ulius Haugk residence here, and Haugks are moving to the farm bought lof James Moses, while the James Moses are moving temporarily to this city with their son, Dale, and family, until ready to go to Canada for the summer. The Zimmerman farm, which has been purchased by Mrs. Anna Laman, will be tenanted byJohn Lett and family.

WANT REV. CRAFT’S RETURN. , M. E. Church Quarterly Conference's Unanimous Vote. At the last quarterly conference of 4 the Monroe M. E. church, which was an occasion of much pleasure to pastor and people, there was an almost unanimous vote of the conference for the return of the pastor, the Rev. G. H. Crafts for another year. This expres- , si’-ii of good will was very pleasing ‘ to a 1 !. After the business session, the ladies of the church had a dinner preparea for all who were present and this feature of a quarterly conference was quite like such conferences used to be. Miss Nellie Mason, corresponding secretary of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary society will speak Saturday evening at the church, and Sunday morning at the Sunday school service. —o—. — - DEATH’S VICTIMS Mrs. Catherine Kell Passes I Away at Home in Allen County. HAS RELATIVES HERE Death of Rev. Thieme at South Bend Brings Sorrow to Relatives Here. j, Mrs. Mary Catherine ' eighty-three years, a pioneer of Allen j county, the widow of Jaco"b Kell, and step-mother of former Senator George : * V. Kell, died Tuesday morning from, heart trouble. Mrs. Kell is a sister j of Mrs. James Gilson of this city, and , an auni of Mrs. Chris Strebe, of this | city and W. A. Fonner of Root town- ■ ship. Funeral services will be conducted ’ Thursday morning at 9:30 o’clock! at the residence and at 10 o’clock at:, the Huntertown Chapel church, the IRev. Bunner officiating. Burial will] be made in the Huntertown cemeter?. Following an illness of two months with Bright's disease. Rev. Traugott Thieme, aged fifty-four years, for . twenty-three years pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church at South Bend, died Tuesday at his home in South Bend. The deceased was born in Ft. Wayne . and is a cousin of the Thiemes and Bleekes of Union township, this county. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon from his church at South Bend. A. ’l’. Thieme, Fred Thieme, Theodore Thieme and Henry and Ed Bleeke of Union township, with members of their families, will probably attend the funeral of their cousin. Maurice Baker Dead. John Baker, of the firm of Hower & Baker, this noon received a message ■ of the death of his cousin, Maurice Baker, whose death occurred at his home at Barberton, Ohio. Mr. Baker was about fifty-five or sixty years of age, and leaves a widow and six children. He was a son of Nicholas Baker. The funeral arrangements were not known. Mrs. King’s Demise. Mary Louise Lachot King, wife of Henry S. King, of Wells county, and a sister of John Lachot, of this city, died Tuesday night at 9 o’clock at her home in Wells county, after an extended illness from heart and stomach trouble. Mrs. King was born April 2, 1851, at Mt. Eaton, Oitio, and was married February 27, 1876. She leaves a husband and the following children: Theodore H., Hanna L., Mason N., Cora A Henry F„ John F. and Herbert L., all of Wells county. I But two brothers survive, George 11. Lachot of Apple Creek, Ohio, and | John Lachot of this city. Miss Lllah 1 Lachot has been at. the King home several weeks and Mr. Lachot left Tuesday for his sister’s bedside, on receiving word that she was at the point of death. The funeral will be held Friday at the residence one mile west of Relffsburg. A SHOE. CONVENTION. Charles Voglewede and son, Robert, this morning left for Indianapolis, where the former will attend the Retail Shoe Dealers’ convention, being held In the capital city, which convened today. While there Mr. Voglewede will visit with various relatives, along with looking after business affairs.

WILL GO TO RIPLEY —V •, Martin Beery and Sons Pur- i chase 120 Acres of Land 1 in Ripley County. i SELL LAND HERE i i ' < Ed and Wilson Beery Will ] Move to New Possession i to Make Future Home. i t ; In about two weeks Adams county ; will lose two of its suustantial resi- 1 dents—Ed Beery of this city and his brother, Wilson, of near Pleasant I Mills, who, with their families will go to Ripley county to make their home. Their father, Martin Beery, of West Monroe street, this city, has ■ sold his eighty-acre farm, and Wilson his forty-acre farm near Pleasant Mills to the Strauss Brothers of Fort Wayne, and purchased 120 acres in Ripley county. Os this, eighty were bought by Martin Beery and forty by , the two sons, who will take possession of the place and attend to it. ] Mrs. E<FT?eery and two children, who have been spending the winter witli ! her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wash Gilpen. at Cardwell, Mo., are expected home in a week or ten days, to prepare to move to their new home. Ed Beery, xvho has served nearly fivq years as motorman for the Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway com- : pany, being one of its oldest and most trusted employees, resigned ! 1 Tuesday evening in .view of his ap- i, ‘ proaching removal to Ripley county. ■ ’ He was succeeded by Henry Kruel. A OSTLY BLAZE • 1 — Log House on John TonneL i lier Farm Burned Together With Lot of Tools. 1 VALUED AT $500.00 > t Belonged to Billy McQuay, Who With F. Nolan Had Bachelor Home There. _______ < Billy McQuay and Frank Nolan, em- ; ployed by John Tonneller on his farm two miles northwest of the city, who had “bachelor quarters" in a log house on the Tonnellier farm, suffered a heavy loss by fire Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock, when the house and contents were destroyed by fire Both men were in this city on business at the time and it is thought that the fire caught from a defective flue, as it began in the roof. It was first noticed by Mrs. Will Singleton, a neighbor, but it had gained such headway, that it couttl not be extinguished by those who hastened to the scene. McQuay and Nolan had started home from this city and were at the Meyers sawmill when they noticed their home blazing away in the distance. They hurried on. but reached the place too late to do any good. McQuay, who is an automobile machinist by trade, suf-1 ' sered a SSOO loss, as nearly all his clothing was in the house at the time, besides a lot of automobile fools, which were all burned. Nolan's loss was not nearly so great. He has been employed recently by Robert Miller, who lived near the place, and nearly all his clothing was still at the Miller home. The two men had been engaged by Mi. Tonneller to assist in beet raising this summer and had taken up their abode on the Tonnellier place. RECEIVES SIOO INSURANCE. Ernst Schlickman, now with his family at. Denver, Colo., but who suffered ar. accident while here at his feed yard during the winter, in which he was injured and was disabled for several weeks, has received SSO from the Continental Sick and Accident Insurance company of which Dr. Keller is agen*. and also SSO from the North American Sick and Accident Insurance company of which Ed Green is agent, which proves that he has received the best, and most prompt attention.

DEATH RATE INCREASES. The death rate among the Indiana veterans of the civil war has increased 2.03 per cent during the six years he has been in office, according to figures compiled by Col. J. R. Fesler, assistant adjutant general and quartermaster of the department of Indiana Grand Army of the Republic. He has just completed his semi-annual report to the department commander which covers the period ending the year. In 1906 the number of veterans enrolled in the Grand Army posts was 14,309. That year there were 71.1 deaths. The rate will no doubt Increase much more rapidly than ever before during the next six years because of the increasing years cf the veterans. The semi-annual report just completed shows there were 352 posts in active operation in December. BOARD LABORERS P. H. Butler, of Chicago. Will Open Commissary in Auto Building. WITHIN TWO WEEKS Is Here Today Arranging Details —Will Take Care of Construction Men. P. H Butler, president of the Chi cago Commissary company, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the ' country, is in Decatur, and has closer, a contract for conducting a commis sary, or workmen's hotel here durini the summer and perhaps longer. Mr Butler’s company has an equipmem for four thousand men and they have handled a number of the big railroa< jobs, looking after the constructior. gangs. His business here will be tc board ana lodge tne wontmen on the sugar factory, it being estimated that there will be from two hundred to one thousand men irere on the job alone, from March 15th to October Ist. O. course it will be impossible for this city to take care of so many and es pecially so this year, when there are many other improvements to require large forces. It was therefore up to the contractors to secure some one who could look after the job and Mr. Butler was selected. He comes recommended by Armour & Company and will take care of the job as it should be He is arranging to rent the autmobite factory building, where he will arrange sleeping quarters for the men and where they will be comfortably and well cared for. Mr. Butler has contracts for many of the necessities, but will buy all the goods here which he can, including meats, vegetables, groceries, garden truck, etc. He will send an organization of trained men here to conduct the commissary and will himself spend a large part of the time on the job. He expects to use four or five cooks, a man ager. assistant, table waiters, etc, and will employ as much of the labor here as he can. This institution will relieve the city of caring for the greater part of the laborers, but will leave plenty for them, as perhaps not more than two-thirds will board at this place. Mr. Butler is a very pleasant gentleman to meet and will, we bertieve, trefit everybody fair and square. CHRISTIAN JUNIORS' ELECTION. Inauguiate Membership Contest — Will Give Easter Contest. The junior Christian Endeavor sc ciety of the Christian church, unde, the superintendency of Miss Dorothy Schultz, is doing a good work, making rapid growth. New' officers were elected for the year, they being: President, Harold Magley; vice president, Paul Daniels; secretary, Orene Schultz; treasurer, Harold Smith. A new membership contest has been inaugurated, with Harold Daniels captain of the “blue’’ and James Dawson, captain of the “red.’ They expect to gain many new members. They are also working for a life-membership with the Christian Woman's Board of Missions, and Vlcian Burke and Vera Eady have been appointed to work with their superintendent for this. An Easter concert will also be given, Mrs. Minnie Daniels to have charge of this, and a busy time is in store for the band.

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WRITES FARMERS I President McLean of Sugar Company Gives His Advice on Tariff. ON SUGAR QUESTION Message Sent Out from Chicago Regarding New Plant in This City. Chicago, 111., Mar. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A warning has been sent to the Indiana farmers who are expected to be raisers of sugar beets for the new factory at Decatur, Indi ana., in which the farmers are told that the American Sugar Refining company, commonly known as the sugar trust, is trying to have the tariff on raw tropical sugar cut, in order to throttle the home beet sugli industry, I w ith the many independent factories I scattered all over the country. The I letter, which is being sent out by C. ; M. McLean, president of the Holland- ■ St. Louis Sugar company, owner of : the Decatur factory, says that the suc--1 cess of the sugar trust means lower ! prices to the farmers for I eets. This ] would prevent the further development of the beet sugar industry in In- ! diana. In bls letter, Mr. McLean says: “The American Sugar Refining company, the Federal Sugar Refining com pany, Arbuckle Bros., and other re- . fining interests, all located on the seaboard, who have absolute control of the sugar refining industry in this country and also some of the large cane sugar planters in Cuba, are now endeavoring to influence public opinion and are making an effort in congress to bring about a further reduction of this tariff in order to prevent further development of the beet-sugar industry. These refining interests import raw, sugar from tropical countries and refine it. “The refining interests realize that ■ beet sugar is their only competitor, and they, therefore, wish to throttle the industry. Circulars have been sent out by the refining interests containing the misleading statements, that . the duty was 2c a pound and equivalent to 80 per cent ad valorem. About , 90 per cent of our foreign sugar comes from Cuba aud pays 1.348 c per pound, which is the effective duty as far as the price of sugar to the consumer is concerned. Taking the average price in the United States paid by the consumer for sugar at s*4c per pound, it is only n simple matter of arithmetic to show that this duty is . j equivalent to less than thirty-three . ■ per cent ad valorem. . | “The refining process is very sim : \ pie and distributes very little wealth j among the American people as com- ! pared with the production of beet sugi f ar. For the. 600,000 tons of beet sugar . now produced, there is paid to the 3 American farmer, workman and sup- . plyman, about $45,000,000. If the toi tai consumption of sugar in this coun--1! try—3,600,000 tons — were all grown ] and manufactured in the United . i States, the actual distribution among r i the farmers and workmen would amount to $270,000,000, while if it e ( were all imported, it would amount to s ’ only $36,000,000. There are now sevt! enty beet sugar factories in the United _!states It would take over 400 sac- . j tories to produce the total sugar conj sumed. Would it not be much better to have this vast sum $270,000,000 — | distributed by so many separate in--1 terests, widely scattered over the Un i ited States than to have the entire ! sugar indusry controlled by half a ’ dozen gentlemen in New York, who : ; control the refining industry? y j “In addition to this, the production g of all our sugar from sugar beets, would add immensely to the produci ] tion of other crops from the well , I known fact that a root crop rotated e ] with cereals improves the soil and V j very materially adds to the yield of | other crops. -j “Sugar is distinctly an agricultur- . I al product, and the farmer who grows > the beets is the largest beneficiary of I the duty. The American farmer pays > three or four times more for labor than the farmer in the tropical couni ties, where ean sugar is produced and : therefore, needs protection. “It would therefore appear that it , is to the interest of the farmer and ■ the public, no less than to the manui faurer of beet sugar, to prevent the I cutting of the tariff.”