Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1922 — Page 1

EXTRA! Tyndall Leads In Race By Over 2,000 Votes EXTRA! DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Volume XX. Number 105

BEVERIDGE LEADS NEW BY BIG MARGIN

CLOSE RACES FEATURE PRIMARY HERE

GREAT INTEREST SHOWN IN TOWNSHIPJONTESTS LARGE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES IN THE FIELD CREATED INTEREST AMONG

DEMOCRATIC VOTERS--ONE REPUBLICAN WOMAN NOMINATED.

Campaigns for president, senators and governors may be spirited, but none of the races compare in interest to the contests in the townships as shown by the vote in yesterday’s primary in this county. In every township there were several contests, not only for trustee, but for township assessor and in Wabash township the contests on the Democratic ticket were all most as numerous as the number of voters in the two voting precincts. Four men contested for the trustee nomination, three for as-, sessor, four for Justice of the peace, and two for constable in this township. In the Geneva precincts two candidates contested in each of the' precincts. In St. Mary’s township on the Republican ticket were seven can-: didates, including one woman, who; was the successful contestant, battled' for the republican nomination township trustee. Mrs. Susie Bowen, has the honor of being the first women in Adams County to be nominated by a political party for a township office. We herewith print the total for all ■ the candidates in the townships, both i democrats and republicans, listing the successful candidate first and omit-I ting precinct committeemen where 1 there was no contest. Union Township Democratic — Trustee — Rudolph Weiland 112, Dallas Spuller 87, Henry

Lehrman 54. Assessor—E. P. Miller 132, Otto Illeeke 94. Republican—No township ticket, nominated. Root Township. Democratic—Trustee —A. J. Lewton 118, Chas. Longenberger 98. Assessor—Geo. Scheiferstein 125, j John E. Mann. 60, Sam F. Krill 38. Republican—Trustee—Samuel Fuhrtnan 71, James C. Harkless 62. Assessor—D. M. Rice 93. Preble Township. Democratic — Trustee — August Schefman, 125, Chas. Ewell 114, Ernst Worthman 60. Assessor —Edgar Gallmeyer 238. Republican —No township ticket nominated. Kirkland Township. Democratic—Trustee —W. H. Det-I Lnger 91, Homer P. Crum 70, John W. Brown, Jr., 44. Assessor—Chas. Arnold 143, W. L. Stalter 49. Repubuican—William Arnold 16. Assessor—No nominee. Washington Township. Democratic—Trustee— Glen Cowan 861, Joan p. Snow 457 Levi Baumgartner 178. Assessor—Jonah A. Cline 725, Geo. Helltnger 488. Republican — Trustee Oliver P MRls, no opposition. f ommlteemen—Wo list only these who ha <l opposition—) Decatur Ist “A” W. A. Lower 13, J A. Smith 9. Decatur 2nd "A”—C. E. Peterson 56, L - A. Graham 38. Decatur 3rd “A”—Harry Fritzinger Wm. W. Marker 10, John M. Lenhart 19. (Continued 00 page five)

AUDITORSWILL CHECK-UP ONLY RECENT RECORDS Mayor DeVoss Receives ; Letter from Public Service Commission MEANS BIG SAVING Prompt Action by Mayor Will Save Taxpayers Hundreds of Dollars Answering the letter and protest I sent by Mayor Huber DeVoss to the | Indiana Public Service Commission I against the useless checking by the commission’s auditors of the books lof the water works department of the city light and water plant cov- : ering a period of twenty seven years or dating back to when the city plant I was established, the Public Service. Commission has informed Mayor De Voss that Auditors Bledsoe and Mc(Continued on Page Four).

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I . NOTICE TO ELKS All members of the Elks lodge are asked to attend a special meeting of j the lodge to be held at 7:30 this evei ning for tile purpose of making arI rangements for attending the D. 1) | Clark funeral. LET CONTRACT FOR SIDEWALK

City Council Authorized to Advertise for Bids On Seventh Street The city council in regular session last evening awarded the contract for the building of the Nuttman Avenue sidewalk to Yost Brothers on their bid of $606.30. Other bids ' filed were Amos Fisher, $645.00, John Hill, $630.00. Willis Magner objected to the as--1 sessments in the matter of the Line | street improvement and the matter j was referred to the street and sewer ! committee. No one objected to the Seventh street improvement and the clerk . | was authorized to advertise for bids. | same to be received by the council 'on Jime 6. The engineer's plans and specificsI tions on the S. E. Shamp alley improvement were approved and the; clerk authorized to advertise for bids for its construction on June 6. A petition signed by a number of property’ owners asked that another street light be placed on North Second street between the James Gay and John Falk properties. The matter was referred to the electric light i committee, ’ The street and sewer committee 1 reported unfavorable on the petition of Harve Sprague for a new sewer, • recommending that the sewer be ! flushed by the property owners. The matter of adopting an ordin- '' ance regulating the sale of milk in Decatur was referred to the Judicairy I committee. i (Continued on pace two)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, May 3, 1922

TYNDALL MAKES GREAT RACE IN ADAMS COUNTY — Decatur Man Receives Over ' Ninety Per Cent of Dem-

ocratic Vote Here I FEW REPUBLICANS — Only Twenty-five Per Cent of Republican Vote Cast in Primary Vote for Congress Al 3:30 this afternoon indications were that John \V. Tyndall had been nominated for congress by a plurality over Waller Ball of Muncie, by from 1.000 to 1.500 votes. Tyndall carried Adams and Wells I counties by nearly 1,000 giving him a lead which could not be I overtaken bv Ball who carried Delaware. Jay and Randolph while Mellett took Madison. The vote as reported at that hour was: Adams—Tyndall 3,568; Ball, 163; Mellett 136. Jay—Tyndall 456; Ball 782; Mellett 295. (1 precinct out.) Delaware— Tyndall 80; Ball 997; Mellett 71 ’(2O out of 35 precincts) Wells—Tyndall. 1,627; Ball. 1,008; Mellett. 338. Madison —Tyndall, 839; Ball, 1012; Mellett‘2ol7 (32 out of. 56 precincts.) Randolph—Tvndall 192; Ball 635; Mellett 151 Totals—Tvndall, 6,772; Ball, 4,617; Mellett, 3.009. It is not believed that sufficient changes can be made to effect the results though Tyndall’s pl ural i t y~wi 11 be red i ice< I (Continued on page six)

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Dayton V. Steele etux to John D. i Wlsehaupt, lot 330 in Decatur, $75. John F. Hamilton to Abe Acker man, SO acres in St. Marys township $13,325. Claud C. Cay etux to James 1.. Gay , lot 955 in Decatur. $250. CONTRACT WILL BE LET JUNE 16

Date Set for Receiving Bids on Contract for New Memorial Building Friday. June 16, is the date which ' has been selected by the Board of Trustees of the Adams County Me morial Building, on which bids will i be received and the contract let for the construction of the building, i The bids for the contract on the I building, which is to be erected on the Old Adams County Fair Grounds, will be received in the rooms of the Decatulr Industrial Association, on South Second street, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon. The bids will be for furnishing all materials and the performance of all labor required for the general con struction. heating, plumbing, electric wiring, refrigerators, refrigerating system, elevators, dumb waiters, and interior decorations, and for the new hospital building according to the plans and specifications drawn up recently by Oscar Hoffman, architect. The estimated cost of the building is SIOO,OOO. The Board of Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Yellow pressed bricks are to be used in the construction of the building, which will have three ■ stories besides the basement. There will be thirty-six rooms in the. building in addition to the sun parlors i and waiting rooms which can be converted into patient rooms in case of necessity. Several, individuals and organizai tions of Decatur and Adams county have offered to furnish rooms in the (Continued on page two)

FORMER SENATOR HOLDS LARGE LEAD IN THE RACE I RALSTON POLLS HEAVY VOTE IN CONTEST FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR HELD YESTERDAY,

PORTLAND MAN I GETS CONTRACT FOR NEW ANNEX Charles Sanders Submits Lowest Bid for New School Building FOUR SUBMIT BIDS Schafer Hardware Co. and P. .1. Hyland Given SubCon tracts Charles Sanders, of Portland, was the succesful bidder for the general contract for the construction of the new high school gymnasium and auditorium annex to the Decatur high I Schoo) building by the city school l board this morning. Mr. Sander's i bid was $36, 710. There were four bidders for the general contract. The bidders and their respective bids were: Moon and Butler, Decatur, $38,710: Charles Sanders. Portland. $36,920; Charles N. , Christen. Decatur, $45,735, and H. F. Linn. Decatur, $42,972. The contract for furnishing and installing the lectrical wiring and tix- ■ tures, was awarded to the Schafer (Continued on page two)

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Indianapolis, May 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Nomination of Al bert J. Beveridge as republican senatorial candidate from Indiana over Senator Harry S. New, seemed virtually’ assured at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon on the basis of returns ! from more than two thirds of the i votes. When returns from New's strong- ' holds in heavy voting precincts of Marion county failed to cut down Beveridges lead of more than 13.000 John Walker, county manager for Beveridge, claimed the county by a plurality of 2,000 votes. Tliis development was sifinificant in spite of the fact that the New force pinned great hopes on the returns from Marion county. One negro precinct which had been expected to go solidly for New split its vote about evenly. Returns from 2,596 precincts in the republican precincts at 2:15 gave Abert J. Beveridge a lead of 16,445 over New. The vote stood Beveridge 145.324, New 128,872. New headquarters said returns received there still showed New lead ing by a narrow margin. Former Gov. Samuel Ralston was victorious in the democratic senatorial race. Count of the democratic

vote was not started in some of the outlying counties at noon. Every pre cinct reporting added to Raltston’s plurality. Indications were that 12 republicans congressmen from Indiana seeking relection would be chosen by their party as nominees. There was a feeling at New headquarters that Senator James Watson, Indiana colleague of New. had not done all he could to assure News nomination. Watsons home. Rush county, gave Beveridge a plurality of 600. Beveridge’s supporters claim to have carried the counties of Delaware, Daviess, Morgan. Owen, Clark, Debois, Harrison. Lawrence, Scott, Bartholomew, Decatur. Jennings, Johnson. Ohio. Vigo, Shelby, Madison Randolph. Carroll, Hamilton, Tipton, Porter, Blackford and Miami. A majority of the counties are in agricultural sections and bore out Beveridge’s prediction he would swing the farmer vote because they were disatisfied with conditions in the government. New asked for re-election on the basis of the Harding administration record and the final result will show how Indiana regarded the President's policies. ’* Indianapolis, hid.. May s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Harry S. New slipped into the lead by a neck today in the tabulation of votes in his race with Albert J. Beveridge for the republican nomination for United States I senator from Indiana. After the pendulum of victory had swung back and forth from the finest returns, the count of 1.244 precincts out of 3,382 tn the state, gave New who seeks re-election on the record |of the Harding administration a lead of 1,172. The vote: New 56,546, Beveridge 55,374. Throughout the night as the returns were reported, the lead rested with first New and then Beveridge. The discontents with the Harding ■ administration were represented by Beveridge progressive. j (Continued on page throej 4