Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1923 — Page 3

DOGFISH odd name. Th „ rwwon for the name "dogflah" h ln do with the habit* of the apem the hunting of prey, naye Na Ilir( . Magaxine. The name Ik deelarto have been applied to aeveral L ihr of bw ' ai,H '- U,H the,r ’wtom le b« nt "> ” a,ks ’ nrt, ‘ r tho fashion of hounds and beagles. —o —— ORIOLE HAS A JOB The Baltimore oriole builds Its n ,. s t on the tip of a branch, preferably of the elm or willow. It is a' „ e at hunter of noxious insects. In,.|u(ling hairy larvae which many, Ihrds will not touch under any consideration. — " st Hiol « tII.AIIDEH THOIBI.E ... .‘.1.1 not stand nor sit and was , i t,> <ry out from intense pnln."i Lrlt.H Henrv William*. Tarkio. Mon-1 ,7m. “The doctors said I had Inffarn-; mation of the bladder and an opera"as necessary. Tried Foley Kid- 1 n ey Pill" and Improved at once Tell "n ri iv friends about holey kidney Pill, lis It will save many Horn suffeiIns and perhaps, as In my rase, a danL.rous operation." Bladder and kidtrouble demand prompt treatment. f,,|. v Kidney Pills give quick relief. AMERICAN LEGION NOTICE! Regular meeting Monday night. Tita p.rn. Nomination of officers. Matters oi great Importance to come up at this meeting. Officers will appreciate a good attendance. 247t3x o —— BOX SOCIAL AT MONMOUTH A box social will be held tomorrow evening beginning at 7:30 o'clock at the Monmouth school house. All girls are requested to bring boxes. 248t2 BREAKACHEST COLD WITH HEAT OF RED PEPPERS Ease your tight, aching chest. Stop the pain. Break up the congestion. Feel a bad cold loosen up In just a short time. “Red Pepper Rub” Is the cold remedy that brings quickest relief. It cannot hurt you and it certainly seems to end the tightness and drive the congestion and soreness right out. Nothing has such concentrated, penetrating heat as red peppers, and when heat penetrates right down into colds, congestion, aching muscles and sore, stiff joints relief comes at once. The moment you apply Red Pepper Rub you feel the tingling heat. In three minutes the congested spot is warmed through and through. When you are suffering from a cold, rheumatism, backache, stiff neck or sore muscles, just get a jar of Rowles Red Pepper Rub, made from red peppers, at any drug store. You will have the quickest relief known. Always say “Rowles.’ 0 —O DR. G. F. EICHHORN Veterinarian Office over Burdg Barber Shop. Monroe street Calls answered day or night. Cattle sterility a specialty. Here permanently beginning Monday, Oct. 22nd. 0 —O o — ====== — DR. C. V. CONNELL VETERINARIAN I Office No. First Street I o - ■ MOVED We have moved from our old office building on South Second street into our new quarters located on Madison street and are now open and ready for business. Come In and Visit Us. Graham & Wallers

' rrurr - Hard Coal - Pea Size Just received a car of No. 1 Pea size Hard Coal which we will distribute in proportion of onethird Hard Coal to two-thirds Coke for your base burner, which will make you an ideal fuel. Carroll Coal & Coke Co.

GERMAN GREEN POLICEMAN KILLED BY MOB • * JU -q v ■ s'. .«•* i I 1 : Ml w 4$ Jim" 1 -bp V » hM -B * z J till w -'S t*. z ~ zsi L . L:J • This remarkable photo shows a German Green police npn who has been arrested and disarmed by French cavalry being beaten to death by German rioters in the Rhine Separatists disorders. The gentle murderers may be seen beating the man with iron pipes while the French look on. — P. & A. Photos.

'ROAD PROGRAM IS EXTENSIVE ► Highway Commission To Build About 800 Miles In 1924 and 1925. This is the fifth of a series of articles, first published in the InI dianapolis News, dealing with the Indiana highway commission, how and where it obtains its money, i what it does with it, and the results the people of the state' may i reasonably expect in the way of roads. (By W .H. BLODGETT.- . Staff writer on the Indianapolis News and published in this paper by courtesy of the News. I The Indiana highway commission has prepared an elaborate program for road buildiing for 1924 and 1925. In 1921, owing to the period of depression following the world war.j contracts for only 24.7 miles of construction were awarded at a total cost of $3,841,690.43. which included seven miles of brick on a concrete I base, seventeen miles of bituminous I macadam, 163 miles of concrete and twenty nine miles of grading and I small structures, which will be suri faced under seperate contract. Thus far in 1923, contracts for a I total of 172.44 miles have been awardled, including concrete, 104.631 miles; : gravel, 18.636 miles; grading and structures. 49.173 miles. In 1924 the I commission proposes to build roads I as follows: From the Marion county line to Lai fayette. From Boswell to Dyer. From Petersburg t,o Milford. From Farmersburg to Sullivan. 1 From Hazelton to Ft. Branch. From Frenc h Lick to Crystal. From New Albany to the Scott county line. From Indianapolis to Martinsville. From New Bethel to Shelbyville. Frcm the Marion county line through Anderson to Muncie. | A three-mile stretch between AnderI son and Alexandria. From Peru to the Howard county line. Fros Ft. Wayne to Flymouth. Frcm Lagtange to Middlebury. The Program For 1925 I The program for 1925 is still more I elaborate because the commission will have at its disposal about $15,000,000. The program for 1925 I provides for the bidding of roads as I follows: From Lagayette to points west of Fowler. From Boswell to Veedersburg. From I yford to Terre Haute. From Sullivan to Hazelton. From Jasper to Hayesville. From Martinsville to Bloomington. From Franklin to Seymour.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20,1923.

From Cambridge City to Conners vlile. Frcm Muncie to Portland. From Alexandria through Marion i and Huntington to Fort Wayne. IT m Churubusco to IJgonier. Fi cm Lagrange to the Stuben county line. i From Angola to the Ohio State line. I- roni, Middlebury to Elkhart. From Peru to Plymouth. From I lymouth to alparaisa. When this system is completed there will be paved roads from Indianapolis to Chicago byway of Lafayette; from Indianapolis to South Bend, through Kokomo. Rochester, and Plymouth; from Indianapolis to Ft. Wayne, from Indianapolis to Richmond, through Greeufi.-ld; from Indianapolis to Louisville, Ky., ■ through Franklin, Columbus, Sey mour, Scottsburg. Jeffersonville, or I New Albany: Indianapolis to Terre Haute, through Evansville, byway of Sullivan, Vincennes and Princeton. Across Northern Indiana There will also be two complete roads across the noth part of the state. One w.ll begin at the Ohio state line and will pass through Ft. Wayne. Columbus City. Warsaw, Plymouth and Valparaiso. Another starting at state line east of Angola, will run through Lagrange, Elkhart, South Pend, Michigan City and Cary. Completion of this program for 1924 and 1925, it is asserted, will answer he wide pread critisism that the highway commission is doing a lot >f patchwork, putting down a few miles of road at one joint, jumping to another point, and building some more few miles, then a few miles at some place else, and never making ■i complete job of any one undertaking. Tao result of this patch work is, there are short lines of paved roads In all parts of Indiana, and that between them there are mud holes and even ;>ogs, and the Itmistance of those fam liar with these conditions is that if the highway commission would complete a job when it undertakes it, it would not only lessen the criticism, but it world decrease the cost considerably. A member of the commission, peaking for the commission says tint tlio Indiana law requires the highway commission not only to buiid road:; but to maintain tl om after they are built. The patch work, he says, is caused in many instances by the condition of the roads the state took over. Eat h ednimuntity insists that «its need for a road is greater and the result is, the comniissionerj said, that in order to bring pressure t 5 bear on the commission to build a road in a certain locality, twon meetings ar? held, the politicians get busy, appeals are made to the Governor, members of the legislature until the commission is almost beside itself. What Law Provides "The law provides," said the commissioner, “that we must reach every county seat; and all towns and cities of more than 5,900 population in the state by a certain time. If we spend all our money on one long job, it means that other roads will be negJlected and not put in shape for the carrying of traffic. The completion lof our program will connect up practically all of our so-called patchwork, land. I b’lieve, this arrangement will satisfy those who are finding fault 1 with us on that score.” The two years program covers approximately 890 miles. This with 350 miles constructed by the highway ; commission and 400 units built by the 'counties prior to the time the roads were added to the state system, make more than 1,500 miles of hard surface roads before the construction season |of 1925 is ended. Tho commission be-

eves that at least 2.500 miles of oads should be covered with some nproved type of pavement. The fact remains, however, that the < ommicsioners have been easy on the ontractors, whether or not because < f Hie politic al influence that the < ontractors pretend to exert is not ■iisjlosed by the records. It is dis- < losed by the records, however, that .nt 1 recently, each contractor has been permitted to get all the contracts possible and thus have several jobs going at one time. Few of them 1 ave been completed by the date set i.i the contrac ts. The natural result i ; that many of the roads leading to main roads are in very bad shape I s nd there is a muddy interruption in the paved highways between points lin Indiana. it is of record that some if these contractors hive gone past the date for completing their con- | tracts as much as two years and no '..tempt has been made to force them. !:.3 a general rule, to abide by the ' t >rins of their contract. Every conI trac tor is required by law to give a surety bond that he will have his v ork completed according to plans and specifications by a time specified in his contract, and the law provides a penalty for eac h day's failure to complete the road at the time menl.on d in the ccm.ract, unless he can i how good cause wliy he was unable to do so. Policy In Effect Now Members of the commission deny ! that they permit contractors to get a l the contracts they can. They say that this system was in vouge under t. former administration, but was stopped when the commission reorganized and Lawrence Lyons retired as direc tor. The commissioners admit, however, that they have been a little easy on the contractors and they have not enforced the penalty clause against them; nor have they, except in one instance, forced the se- ■ curities on the contractors bond to s?e that the contractor completes his contract on time. In one instance, after a long and vexatidus delay on the part of a contractor, a surety company took over his contract and completed it. The commissioners now say that hereafter the sureties on the bonds of contractors will be required to see that the contractors who are delinquent complete their work according to the contract and according to the plans and specifications, and furthermore that the commission will enforce the penalty clause on all delinquent contracts. Members of the commission agree that if this is done there will be a visible decrease in the cost of road building. The records show that the following started as late as September 30,1922: Noble county, concrete, two miles, contract awarded April 8. 1921. Noble county, concrete 0.775 miles contract awarded April 8,1921. Spencer county, gravel, one mile, contract awarded June 6, 1922. Spencer county, gravel one mile, contract awarded June 6. 1922. Spencer county, gravel one mile, contract awarded June 6, 1922. Noble county, concrete, 0356 mile, Boone county concrete, one mile contract awarded August 8,1916. Bartholomew county, concrete, two miles, contract awarded Oct. 25, 1916. Bartholomew county, concrete, one mile, contract awarded Oct. 25, 1916. Spencer county, gravel, three miles, contract awarded June 6, 1922. Spencer county, gravel, ten miles, contract awarded Februay 7. 1922. Spencer county, gravel, five miles, contract awarded Februay 7, 1922. Government Aid Roads In addition to these, there are eight

roads on wJilch the government Is to pay its proportion, that were not completed at the filing of tho highway report of the year ending September 30, 1922. Eleven roads are not more than hnlw done, and on several others only a little work ha* been performed. The report also shows that there is <<»nsidorable unfinished grading. The report also shows that there are thirty county aid roads that hud not been completed at the time of the filing of the 1922 report. The report further shows that there are thirty-four bridges that either have not been completed or on which no final payment was made. These bridge; have been built with the assistance of the government, and there are thirty-six bridges unfinished at the time of the filing of the report for the construction of which the various counties were to pay a part of the cost. During the four and one-half years exlstance of the commission contracts have been awarded for 230 I.ridges, with spans of twenty feet er nioie at a total contract price of approximately $2,2822,678, with a total; of 384 spans, and a total clear span ! length of 3.90 miles. In addition to the thickness of piers and abutments an dthe length of wind wails, the average price a lineal foot of clear water way of these bridges was $165 in 1920; sllß in 1921; slls in 1922, and approximately $164 in 1923. The I average for the entire 384 spans was I $.140 a lineal foot of clear span, in-j eluding all lengths and types of bridges. Os a total number of bridges thirty-four were awarded in 1920. 48 in 1921, 59 in 1922 and 89 in 1923. No seperate contract bridges were award- , ed in 1919. Federal Contribution Federal aid has been or will be received on 125 of the above 230 struc!tures in the amount of one-half the J total cost of approximately $1,978,- , ;749. Federal aid was not received [ on 103 bridges contracted for because , of their isolation from approved federal aid contracts, but their construction, the commission says, was neces- , sary in order to keep the state road , system open to traffic. The contract , price for'these 103 structures wa , $561,553.69. Two of the total of 230 , bridges were county jobs, which were . constructed under the supervision of the highway commission at a total , t ost of $286,510.94. Several bridge projects of magni- . tude have been carried forward by the department in the last few years. , Among these are the reinforced con- . crete arched bridge over the Wabash . river at Attica, one over Blue river I in the National road near Knights- . town, one over Whitewater river near , Brooksville, one over Eel river near . I Reelsviile in Putnam county, and the , 2.000 feet structural steel bridge . ever White river near Hazelton, between Knox and Gibson counties. The commission is now projecting a long and high steel bridge over White river in state road No. 4 near Bed ford, and long reinforcemed concrete girder bridges over the two forks of the Muscatatuck river in state road No. 1, near Seymour and Scottsburg. A bridge is being completed over the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad west of Mitchell. The structural approaches will cost in the neighborhood of $20,009. ■ —— o Princeton Fears Notre Dame Football Eleven (By Henry L. Farrell, United Press Staff Correspondent.) Princeton, N. J.. Oct. 20. —Princeton from the youngest freshman to the cheer leader, doesn't entertain any fancies that it takes an all-American team to win a football game. After last year's experience when a Tiger eleven, in which only intense loyalty could see the makings of a I team at the start of the season, swept through the schedule undefeated, the Nassau campus was convinced thrft spirits was the main thing for victory. While most of the wise minds of the f east are willing to show their sympathy by sitting on the mourners' bench as the great Notre Dame squad heads into Jersey for the biggest game of the east tomorrow. Princeton is not considering acting as the host at any kind of a wake. The Princeton campus considers the “Mick" eleven which downed the powerful Army eleven last week as a serious rival but not a word of it has been allowed to reach the ears of the squad of Bill Roper. From the advance sale of tickets it is considered certain that 40,000 spec- ' tators will be in the stadium tomorrow afternoon. The “Micks" are expected to work out yesterday and today they were to engage in a little kicking, passing and some signal drills. o SILOS NOT FILLED Indianapolis, Oct. 20. —No more than 50 per cent of Indiana silos have been filled this year, according to I. Newt Brown, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. Scarcity of farm labor, and the high prices which must be paid for

the little available- was blamed by > Brown of the empty <yjim|<rs throughout Hoosierdont. Tho sltuulion Is apparently acute |throughout the state, BroAii said. He

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