Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1892 — Page 5

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To Those‘interested. To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Decatur: Gentlemen:— l beg leave to submit through the columns, of the Democrat loroe thoughts tor your cnnud- ration and that of the public, on the iinpoi t uyt qm s tion now pending before y in honorable body ot building water w wks and ot lighting the city with an expensive sys'< in of electric lights It is true tha. Inn not a voter of your city, but am a tax payer and grea'ly Interested in the cl’:’. pros § parity. I hav labored more tha > forty years helping to build up the tow; , and I am proud to say that no public improve ment has been made that. I have not helped to build in sotn ■ wav or other For the c c reasons I b.lieve I have a right lo be heard on the tw > very import irit questions now pending. The prudent man. when he undertakes to build a house, pets the estimate of its cost; nd then ascertains where lie will »et the means to pay for it before he commences. There art many persons urging your body on to make the improvements referred to who do not understand the city’s finances nor the. difficulties to be encounteied. If they dd, I believe, they would not urge these enterprises. To begin with it is proper to take account of the indebtedness of the city. We find that she has now'outstanding $12,600 of city bonds, not counting the bonds issued tor gravel streets. She now las outstand ing about $9,500 of floating orders which makes the present indebtedness of the city about $22,100.00. There will come to the city treasury about $3,500 from the county treasurer in the month of January next, which, when received, and applied to the present indebteness,; will still l ave the city in debt about $18,600. The constitution of the state of Indiana, provides Article 13, found on page 31, of the Revised Statute of ISS2. in substance, that no city or county shall ever make or incur any indebtedness to exceed twenty per eent of the taxable property of the said city or county as shown by the- last assessment for taxation, The assessment of the city of Decatur as shown on the taxdup icate and may be seen in the auditor's office of Adams county , is $1.401,56500. Two per cent of that, the extent which, the city can become indebted, is $28,03!.- , 30. If we take from this amount the . present indebtedness $18.(00 it leave $9, 431 30, the amount in which the city can yet legally increase her indebtedness. I am in ormed m a wav that I deem reliable that you have employed a water works engineer to prepare you plans and specifications lor the building of water works and the laving of pipe on a few of the principal streets in the city. It being conceded that it was impossit lc at the present time to do more than to lav mair.s’ 1 on the street east of the G. R & I and F south to the C & E R. R. And the esI estimate cost of such works was about $35,000 I have further ascertained from the tax duplicate that you have levied .1 tax for city purposes of 78 cents on a hundred dollars. This, if all collected, would raise a fund of $10,932 The tax duplicate is never neir collected from different causes. If you receive SIO,OOO from this duplicate it. will be a good collection. The city cannot realize money from this levy until June, 1893, and January, 1594. The June collection wid not pay tjic outstand ing orders already issued, to say nothing of the ordinary expenses of ‘he city and the orders that are to be issued between now ai d that time. The law provides, and properly sq, that the orders shall be redeemed in the order in which they were presented to the treasurer and indorsed by him “not paid tor want of funds,” that is the oldest orders shall be first paid. So that it is impossible to anticipate any money from the present duplicate to aid in building water works. You then have the resources left of increasing your in debtedness in about $9,431 and may issue bonds for that purpose. Say they sell at par and you have $9,431 in money to start with to apply on a $35,000 plant. Where will you get he other $25,000? Will you undertake to float orders, if so they would be illegal. Still they may be taken as long as no question was raised in courts about their validity. But it is my judgment if you try the experiment you will find the orders depreciating In value very readily and that it will not be two years until they will sell for 75 cents on the dollar, thereby putting the city to great additional expense in every improvement she makes. Is it not under these circumstances fair to inqut-e as to where there is any urgent necessity for water works at the present time. It is my judgment that the people can much better do without the water works than they can do with the debt. For instance, it is pro posed to lay mains on the strgets in the old part of the city, and sell the water and thereby keep up the running expenses of p the plant. But let us examine this plan. These mains will be laid in the old part of the city where almost every house has a well and a cistern. The water to be furnished and ssL-l is hard limestone water, such as is got in the bond wells in \ the city in the limestone. It is altogether / unfit for washing and common house u<e, and many persons d > hot like Jhe hard , limestone water tor drinking purposes Under these ciriumstances who is it. tha will throw away their veil or cistern. In my judgment her will be very lew,’’ the city herself would be lilt only customer ; that would amount to anything l admit that wate works might serve a crood ouroose in putting out fires and

sp friklmg the streets, but I think this benefit has been greatlv magnified. It cosls but little to sprinkle our streets on the pr. sent si stem' As to fires, we all have to carry insurance anyway, the cost wilh w..ter works or without is only a Hole difference. The cosf of maintaining a fire apparsitn- rnd some more cisterns, if nt'C''->a r v. bears no proportion to the cost ol rr.alnlaing water works after the' are built Rlufitnn and Huntington have la'elv bull* waler wnrks They have rhe kind of bard water that we have The people don't buy 'he water in any great qll a' o i• w> hi cause • *-.eir cistexha and wells furnish them belter water But concede for argument, that-it would be an advantage to have mains laid on the streets in the old part of town. Would it be just and fair to lax all the city for water works benefiting a part of the city? I estimate that south of the C. & E, R. R. and west of the G. R, & I. R. R. onethird of lhe people of the city live, yet this one-third, if the city is now plunged in debt, cannot expect or hope to have a main la : d on their sticets in many years. Yet all the time they will be paying taxes to support the water works system only benefitting a few streets, if it be a benefit. A great many people that say “build water works” do not for a moment estimate or consider the amount of money it would take to build, a plant to supply the whole city. Our city is very much spread out, the res.donees are very much scattered. It is a mile and a half from the north end to the south end of town, and a mile east and west along the line of the C. & E road. To supply all the streets with mains it could pr ibably not be done for less than stco,ooo. I am further informed that your body voted recently to buy 25 electric lights with which to light the city at a cost of SBO 00 apiece, making $2,000. As I have heard it is proposed to place these lights at every other street crossing, and it is claimed in this way the city can be lighted with 25 lights This I submit is a great mistake. There are over Ito street crossing and intersections in the city by actual' count, and if one electric light was placed at every other crossing it would take more than 55 lights ■ o cover the same territory that is now covered ! y the Sun Vapor light. It is conceded the electric light is the best in use and also the most expensive. If the whole city is lighted with electricity it will take at least from 50 to 55 lights which would cost more than $4,000 and would be more than 40 per cent of the whole income derived by taxation. My con'.entio that the city is not able to bear this expense. It will plunge the city hopelessly in debt. We must remember that there is no money in the treasury now (o'pay for these lights. It will take the money derived from the spring colketion on the tax duplicate to pay the orders now outstanding. No funds can be collected and applied to the lighting debt it made until January, 1894. The question therefore submits itself to ttecouncil and the tax payers. Does the city r-ezd to co in debt for an expensive lighting rys'em when we can do as well as we have been doing with a much cheaper otu ? But some may ray, “the city will only take 25 fights.” I submit that this is not possible and light the city. Any person can count the street cressings. There are about 60 street intersections and crossings east of the Rapids and north of the C. &E. loads. So that it 25 lights are placed in the old part of the city it will not put one at every other crossing, and would leave none at all south of the C. & E. or west of the G. R. & I. R. RIn my judgment it will not be fair to light a part cf the city with electricity and let the rest go in darkness. In my opinion if the council undertakes such a thing they will find such great dissatisfaction that they w’ill be compelled to extend the system and give all the people light. Again, I have heard it suggested that the city could buy 25 lights and place in the old part of the city, and buy the Sun Vapor or gas light for the rest of the city at a very much cheaper ra'e. I submit that this would not be fair or equal citter. I ask by what rule of justice can you give the residence property on Third and Fourth streets electric lights and the residents on Eighth and Tenth streets Sun Vapor lights or gas lights or no lights at all, when they all pay equally according to the amount of taxable property held by each? If Sun Vapor ights or gas lights are good enough for Seventh and Eighth streets, I hold they are good enough tor Third. Fourth and Fifth streets. I have been to Chicago a number of times during the summer and winter, went in and out in the night time, I observed that the business portion of the city was lighted wi h electricity, but the residence portion of the city was lighted with a light similar to our Sun Vapor light and in my judgment not better. Why was. this? Simply 'ccause the electric light-; was too expensive to be maintained in the residence portion of Chicago. If this light is too expensive for Chicago reside..re property, the most progressive city on the continent, it is too expensive for Decatur residence property and especially so when i has to he bought on credit. Orders issued for it and put on interest to be paid for it a yea. or two hence. It is like- n labeling man b lying a SSO suit of clothes on credit when he can get along very well with a sls suit His SSO suit would make s splen iid show,— he. would have the best thi g out, but it wou'd be very bad economy anil place a debt upon him that it would take him a long time to

debt lor this splendid light to tho extent Ot lighting the whole city with electricity, her debt mutt increase and be a great em bnrrasstnent, unless she would stop all oilier Improvements. Th* city ha* been lighted lor the last few years at an expense of about SISOO a year. I bellpve with proper manage nent on the part of the city council in inviting competition, it can be lighted for a still less sum, with a suffi ciently good light that the, people can well do wilh 1 believe under the circumstances the best thing the citv can now do, is t plug up the water wells and hold them in condition until the city can go on with her water works. The wells will no' spoil or be lost. Reduce the lighting expense to t,ie lowest point the city can and get fair service. Cut off all other expenses possible. Increase the tax next year and pay off the outstanding orders and get the city in a shape so that she can sell all th--bon s that will be allowed under the con stitution, so that the city could have in hand lhe largest amount of money possible to commence the water works with, In the meantime the city ought not o wholly quit street improvements, even if water works should be delayed a few ye rs longer. Fort Wayne did not. build water wo ks until she had 28,000 people, She grew and prospered all the time and in my judgment Decatur will grow and prosper much better if her taxes can be kept at a reasonable amount, such as they have been for several years, or even a little higher. liyau run the city finances so that you are compelled to levy taxes so that they will come at the rate of 3 or 4 per cent as some other towns have done, you will find the growth of the town stopped. People will not invest much money in a town where they have to pay 3 or 4 percent taxes, nor will people want to move to a town to live in where taxes are so high. I estimate that there are more than a hundred houses south of the C. & E. and west of the G, R. & I. R. R. that are mortgaged to loan associations The owners are working very hard and their families economizing all they can to meet the monthly installments on these mortgages. Is it fair or just to put a tax on thesefpeople to build water works on a few streets in the city, or to erect splendid expensive lights in the old part ot the city when they can leceive no benefit from either? No, gentleman, the thing for you to do is to wait until you can treat tle people alike. Water works on a few streets will only be water works in name. The large majority of the people will not have it. So with elecliic lights. Unless you go to the enormous expense of lighting the whole city which I have shown would plunge the city wonderfully in debt. The working people, that work hard all day, do not need a splendid electric light to sleep by, especially so when the tax they would have to pay to support it would in many cases deprive,, their families of the real necessaries of lite. No, gentlemen, go slow. Take time. Let the people understand the finances of the city and their judgments will be finally right on both these questions. David Studabaker.

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The Trouble Over. A prominent man in town exclaimed the other: “My wife has been wearing out her life from the effects of dyspepsia, Liver Compaint and indigestion., Iler case baffled the skill of our best physicians. Alter using three packages of Aunt Fanny’s Health Restorer she is almost enitrewell.” Keep your blood in a healthy condition by the use of the vegetable compound. Call on Holthouse, Blackburd & Co., sole agents, and get a /rial package Jree. Large size 50c. JMotlce. To Farmers and Builders, —We have opened up a first class Hardware and lrnplement Store, in the new Ells worth'Block, and have a new, c ean stock, and all the latest style; have bought for cash and can offer you goods below any firm in the country.' Call and see us. 38U Ellsworth. Myers & Co Wright Bros, Hair Food will grow hair on the baldest head providing 'he hair bulb h»a not been destroyed. Sold by Holthouse, Blackburn & Co. 46tf

Commissloner’Uale of Real Estate. Notice is hereby given that Lewis 0. Deross and J, Frist, France, commissi more appointed by tliu Adams circuit court of Adams county. Indiana, to make sale of real estate ordered sold by said court in tin, case ol Malissa Aslibaueber ot ul, for partition of in nds, will on Saturday, December 17, 1892, At the law ollies of Franco k Franco, In tho city of Decatur, Indiana, between tho boureof » o clock a. in. and 4 o’clock p. ni. of said day otter for sain at private sale to the highest and best bidder, the feu simple 01 tho iollowlng real estate situated in Adams county,lndlanii. to wit: Tho southwest quarter of tho northeast quarter of section six. In township twenty-six north range fourteen east, containing pno hundred and twojity acres, more or loss. Tkhmm;-One-third cash in hand, one-third in one year and one-third In 'wo years from day of sale. Deferred payments to I,ear six per cent interest from day of sale and to be secured to the satisfaction of oald commissioners. Lewis 0. Dxvoss, 1 ~ J. Fheb Fiiasce, I 1 ominlssioners. 86-4 Notice. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned administratrix ot the estate ot John King, deceased, wlll.sell at public sale at lhe east door of the Court House, in the City of Decatur, Adams county, State of Indiana, on the. Slst day of December, 1892, Between the hours of II) o'clock a, m. and 4 o’clock p, in., the following described lands situated in Adams county, Statu of Indiana, described as follows, to-wit: Commencing in the center of Front street, in the city ot Decatur, at the north end thereof; thence southwest along Marshall street six rods; thence northwest corresponding with the direction of Front street to the St. Marys river; thence up the meanderings of the said river to Marshall street; thence west to the place of beginning, containing tour acres more or less, to be sold in parcels. Sold by order of the Adams Circuit Court to raise proceeds to pay debts. Terms:— One-third cash, one-third in nine months, one-third in eighteen months. Deferred payments to be secured by mortgage on premises sold, notes to draw six ptr cent Interest from date. Sarah King, Administratrix. E, G. Coverdale, Atl'y. 38-4 Notice to Non-Resident. The State of Indiana. Adams county, ss. In the Adams circuit court, January term, 1893. Sarah Beiersdorfer, ) Divorce vs. !■ No. 4249. William Beiersdorfer, 1 It appearing from affidavit, Hied in the above entitled cause, that William Beiersdorfer, the above named defendant is a non-resident of the state of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Wm, Beiersdorfer that he be and appear before the Hon, Judge of the Adams circuit court on the 23rd day ot January, 1893, tho same being the 7th jurldicial day of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the court house in thecityofDecatur,commencingonMonday,the 16th day of January, A. D. 1893, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in his absence. Witness, my name, and the seal of said court hereto affixed, this 12th day of November, A. D„ 1892, John H. Lenhart. Clerk. By W P. Milleu, Deputy. France & Merryman Att'ys. 37-3

Notice to Non-Residents. The state of Indiana. Adams county, ss. In the Adams Circuit Court, Novemberterm, 1892. James M. Snider, 1 vs [■ To Quiet Title, Andrew C. Foublc.etal) No. 4263. It appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that Andrew C. Fouble, Fouble, wife of Andrew C. Fouble, whose Christian name is unknown; all the unknown heirs of Andrew C. Fouble, deceased, all the unknown heirs of Fouble. deceased, the above named defendants are uon-reeidents of the state of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Andrew C. Fouble Fouble, wife of Andrew C. Fouble, whose Christian name is unknown, all the unknown heirs ot Andrew C. Fouble, deceased, all the unknown heirs of Foub e, deceased, that they be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams circuit court on the 23rd day of January, 1893, the same being the 7th juridical day of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the court house in the city of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 16th day of January, A. D. 1893. and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in their absence Witness my name, and the seal of said court hereto affixed, this 30th day of November. 1892. John H. Lenhart, Clerk. By W. P. Miller, Deputy. Reed & Smith, Att’ys. 37-3 Notice tojeacners. Notice is hereby give that there will be a public examination of teachers at the office of the county superintendent, in Decatur, In diana, on the last Saturday of each month. Applicants for license musf’present the proper trustee’s certificate or other evidence of good moral character,” and to be successful must pass a good examination in orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography. English grammar, physiology, history of the United States, science of education and in one of the following named subjects: For September, October and November 1892, "Evangeline.” For December 1892 and January 1803. “Snow-Bound.” For February 1893. "Holme's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." Thechange as above announced was made by the State Board of Education at a recent meeting. Examinations will begin promptly at 8:30 a. m. No license will be granted to applicants under seventeen years of age. J F. SnowCo .Supt. NoticeTo A. L. DeVilbis, John Crawford. David Laman. W. H. Laman, W. W. P. McMillen. W. H. Nachtrfeb. Levi Barkley, Charles F. True, John H. Steele. Allen J. Showers. Andrew Barkley. Chicago A- Erie Bailroad Co., David Studabaker, W. H. Niblick, Toledo. St. Louis & Kansas City Railroad Co., C. T. Dorwin, (Margaret MeGonegal. Ann J. Lutz, Clark J. Lutz, Agnes Walkup. E. B. Walkup, Margaret Dorwin, C. T. Dorwin,) heir-3 at law of Joseph MeGonegal. deceased. Trustees of the Evangelical Church, John T. France, John D. Hale, Amos L. GHlig, H. A Fristoe, T. T. Dorwin, John A. Smith, Chicago & Erie Railroad Co., Adeline M. Blackburn. Delinda Ellsworth, Mary Ann Pio, Commissioners of Adams County. You, and each of you. are hereby notified that the common council ot the eity of Decatur, Indiana, at a regular session, held on the 6th day of December, 1892, found and determined that the contractors. H. McLean & Comade and completed according to. the terms of the contract heretofore made, the restoning of Winchester street from Adams street south to the Toledo, St. Ixiuis & Kansas City Railway, andat the sam" time required the city engineer to file his report concerning’’ said improvement as required by law. And now then, you, and each of you, are hereby notified of such action, and all persons feeling aggrieved by such report, have the right to appear before the special committee of said common council, appointed for that purpose, on the 19th day of December, 1892, At 7:30 p. m. at the council chamber in said city, which committee will hear any and all suggestions, complaints or objections made or offered toaaid report. D. O. Jacks6n, City Clerk. December 7, 1892. “4#k2 Notice- — To Frederick Schafer. Kosiinna Daily. Margaret Barthel, leather B, Niman, Mary Forbing, Ezra Lister. D. D. Heller, Magdalena Deininger, H. H, Bremerkamp. You, and each of you, are hereby notified that the common council of tho city ot Decatur, Indiana, at a regular session held on the 6th daj- of December, 1892, found and determined that the contractors, Pyle& Mc.ryman, have made and constructed, according to the contract heretofore made, tho Coffee' alley sewer, located along the line of tho alley running north and south between Fourth and Fifth streetsand between Jefferson and Madison streets. And at tho same time required the cltv engineer to file his report concerning said improvement as required by law, and now, then, you, and eacn of you are hereby notified ot such action, and all persons feeling aggrieved bv such report have the right to appear before the special committe of said common council, appointed for that purpose, on tho 19th day of December, 1892, At 7:30 p. m. at the council room in said city, which committee will hear any and all suggestions, complaints or objections made or offered bv said report. D.X). JACKSON. Ci ty Clerk. December 7,1892, I Appointment o£Administratrix. Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned’ has be<.n appointed administratrix of theettatoof John Kuittle, late of Adams county, deceased. Thoestato Is probably solvent. Mary A. Knittlx, Administrate. Atty’s.

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