Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1912 — Page 1

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SS CONTRACTS City Opens Bids for Coal. Coal Hauling, Oil and Pipes Last Evening. II — require much time Business Was Rushing and City Dads Work Faithful- i ]y- -Allow Some Bills. An unusual amount of business reared the attention of the city solons tn regular session Tuesday evening, j ,nen tills, as advertised, for the furI nlsnius v. vCCt for the city's plant, the hauling of the same from th» vari ous railroads to the city’s yards, oil < for the running of the city plant for a period of one year, and the purchasi in< 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 coun il 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 Aliened first, their being thirteen in number Having been opened by ] the clerk and the quotations of each 'aken. the council after caring for their regular business, which was com parative'y small, proceeded further .? this line A motion that the council w r.’ utive session was put. and carried, all others being dismissed, and the vro’k of figuring the difference in price and the quality of the coal was a’ onre gone over. Out of the thirteen ids tnerr appeared only two or thre<» with which the council spent much rw. and a conclusion was then soon reached. The bids in particular con stiered were those of the Victoria t'oni company and the Consolidated iv:>' company. Both concerns gave t is sjt!s:,ii ory to the city, but there were some agreements in the contracts calling for better service and Protection to the city in case of a at ke. and securing of car service by t'lf''onsolid.ition company that see «d tor them the contract. Both bids stated tha- < oal would be furnished to tity in the amount approximated. ' ton« ;r 90 cents per ton. f. o b at hr mir.-s. plus a freight rate of $1 30 c: Ohio <oal by the Victoria firm, •tile the Consolidation company, ’hose mines are located in West Vi:Mia. quoted like figures, but with ■ retsht rate of $1.55 to this city, or 1 ' ’.al ot $2 45 per ton delivered. The large output of the latter company, the Suarantee of prompt delivery in case ol a strike or no strike, and always lave coal at the city’s disposal, sectrfor them the contract. The bids for 'lie hauling of coal to the city's plant •ere then taken up, they being filed l. v John Thomas, who agreed to haul or 2:' cents per ton, also to stand for what demurrage may be caused i "arc John W. Coffee, who was x-'-’artled the contract one year ago •steed to deliver the same for 23 vents a ton The latter's bid being the lowest, and whose service during Ibi* past year had been satisfactory to th*-city, the contract was again •‘ardwj to him for the coming year yFlve proposals for the furnishing of tl to bo used at the city plant were tien cared for and Iso required but “tUe time for the settling of this ®atter. The Union Oil Works of Erie Pa. which has for four years received 'hs contract from the citv. was again J av °r«l, their prices being the most '•'oraldc and their oil has always as stated, and satisfactory to running of the city's machinery were awarded the contract, t i pish cylinder oil at 37 cents per Won and machine oil for 18 cents. ’° I|,<ls were filed for the furnishing o dl-inch cast iron water mains, one y the National Mill & Supply Co., and ’“other b y the United States Cast _ on 4 Foundry company of Chicago “*• latter agreed to furnish the mains l*r ton, compared with $24.9c ! their competitor, and were given e contract. The contract for furin? coa l, w-hich was turned over ° the waterworks commitee to con’Ct, completed this work in the coun- . ,lle representative of the ® signing the contract at the time. th* <v,n,rac t for the oil was left in hands of the purchasing coinmit(w U|lo will complete this part as ,n ’s the necessary credentials can ta . Ben ’ to ttle company for their sigur?s The contract for the pipe i »

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was left to the waterworks committee, who will follow the requirements 1 at once, so as to place the new contract ill effect. The hauling of coal contra: t was placed In the hands of the elecerlc light committee, which I will Beetle this as soon as the contracting party meets the committee. | Councilman Chronister asked that the street commissioner be allowed to purchase drain tile for various uses as is necessary from time to time J and seven hundred were ordered to be secure! for his service. A proof of ' 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 waterj works bond and interest fund to the sinking fund was adopted and same ordered to be done, as there are no debts to meet in this manner, and which cannot be used to any other purCONTINVEW ON PAGE FOUR COURT HOUSE NEWS 1 Judge J. J. Moran of Portland Sits in Adams Circuit Court Today. ALLEN COUNTY CASE Judge Erwin Here—New Quiet Title Case--Realty Transfers. I Judge J. J. Moran of Portland sat n the Adams circuit court Wedneslay he being special judge in the Allen county case venued here, in which the Allen County board of sioners are suing Arthur Fast et al. ;'or 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. In the Striker-Meyer et al note and foreclosure suit, on leave of court, the defendant, Christian Rich, filed an additional second paragraph of answer to the plaintiff's complaint. In the matter of the petition for ditch filed by Russel R. l.ong et al., the bond was filed and approved D. E. Smith filed a new quiet title case-entitled Aaron Ireland vs. Charles J. Nelson et al Articles of association were filed with the county recorder by the Everett & Hite company, comprising John Everett. Henry Hite, Lillie B. Hite and Eliza J. Everett. The association is tor a period of twentj years, and the capital stock SIO,OOO, divided into shares of SIOO each. The purpose of the association is the buying and selling 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 Hubner to Peter O. Duncan. 80 acres, Kirkland tp., $19,000; John A. Harvey to John T. Price, 80 acres, Washington 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 Washington tp., $10,000; Seth D. Beavers to Andrew J. Powell, 80 acres, Washington tp.. $10,800; Fred Koenig et al. to A. J. Powell, realty in Washington tp., $12,540; Joseph D. Krick to Howard 11. Kurtz, 80 acres, Washington tp., $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. Yager lot 28, Decatur, $4,500; Richard Harris to James K. Tumlleson. 4 and 140 acres, St. Mary's tp., $11,500; Owen Sells to John Scheiman, realty in Washington tp.. $1,100; Daniel Kisser to Tobias Steffen, 30 acres, French tp., $1,650. Licensed to wed: Lilly Biberotien . of Berne, born September 14, 1893, daughter of Peter Biberstlne, to wed William Stuckey, hames smake., . Berne, born September 1, ,4891, son of , Nicholas Stuckey.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday March, 7 1912.

FUND FOR CHARITY Subscriptions Sent in to Aid Those Afflicted and Worthy of Help. I CALL IS IMMEDIATE f . 1 The Really Charitable Will Assist in a Worthy Cause —lt’s Up to You. i—r One of the greatest pleasures of life is the giving to others, the rendering I aid to the afflicted, lending assistance in hours of sorrow. Os course the townshii> cares for its poor, but no official can ghe other than actual necessities, while we all know there are many little things that aid the sick 'or injured, but which could not be .called necessities The person who is really charitable prefers not to have i 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 subscriptions, assuring those who give that .the money will be transferred to whoever shall hereafter be selected treasurer. The subscriptions received today are as follows: Old Adams County bank SIO.OO J. B. Holthouse 200 j C. S. and J. D. Niblick 5.00 A GREAT COUNTY » T- S U L • Jim Haefling is Now Going Over the County Books in Lake County. WONDERFUL GROWTH Second to Marion CountyOne Judge Disposed of Nearly 900 Cases. — I James P. Haefling writes us from Hammond, where he >s now located, g >ing over the books of the county J clerk and sheriff of Lake, as a state accountant. He Says 1 ake is a re- ' markable county, has' increased in wealth and population so rapidly that 1 it is now second only to Marion county. It has fine court houses at Crown Point and Hammond, with a circuit court and superior court at the former place and a superior court at the latter. Judge Rider of Hammond disposed of 860 cases in the superior court alone last yea:, which gives some idea of t'.e business going on there. The population of the county is now over 100,000. Jim has his same old partner and they expect to be in Hammond three or four months. Jim's Hammond address is in care of the Hotel Carlton, where he orders the Daily Democrat sent regularly that he may keep In touch with affairs and people of old Adams. AN ENDLESS CHAIN. The many changes in residences reported as taking place yesterday form the following endless chain: E. 'Miller is moving to the Tumbleson farm: the Tomblesons to the Harris farm, and the Harris family to Allen county. William Fulk, who sold his farm in Kirkland township to DeWitt Zimmerman, is moving to Wells county; Mr. Zimmerman is moving to the Fulk I farm, and the tenant of the Zimmer- ■ man farm is moving to the Leonard > farm; the are moving to the • Julius Haugk residence here, and Haugks are moving to the farm bought 'i of James Moses, while the James i Moses are moving temporarily to i this city with their son, Dale, ami family, until ready to go to Canada for I the summer. The Zimmerman farm, . which has been purchased by Mrs. f Anna Laman, will be tenanted by I,John Lett and family.® •

WANT REV. CRAFT'S RETURN. M. E. Church Quarterly Conference’s Unanimous Vote. At the last quarterly < onference of the Monroe M. E. church, which was an occasion of much pleasure to pas tor and people, there was an almost unanimous vote of the,conference for the return of the pastor) the Rev. G. H Crofts for another year This expression of good will was' very • pleasing to a’l. After the business session, the ladies ol the church trail a dinner prepared 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. DEATH’S VICTIMS i Mrs. Catherine Kell Passes Avzay at Home in Allen County. HAS RELATIVES HERE i I Death of Rev. Thieme at I South Bend Brings Sorrow to Relatives Here. Mrs. Mary Catherine Kell, aged eighty-three years, a pioneer of Allen county, the widow of Jacob Kell, and I step-mother of former Senator George ' V. Kell, died Tuesday morning from ' heart trouble. Mrs. Kell is a sister 1 of Mrs. James Gilson of this city, and an aunt 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 Rev. Bunner officiating. Burial will be made in the Huntertown cemetery. Following an illness of two months with Bright s disease. Rev. Traugott ' Thieme, aged fifty-four years, for twenty-three years pastor of St. Daul'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. T. Thieme, Fred Thieme, Theo- ’ dore 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, Ohio, 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. But two brothers survive, George H. Lachot of Apple Creek, Ohio, and John Lachot of this city. Miss Lilah Lachot has been at the King home several weeks and Mr. Lachot left Tuesday for his sister’s bedside, on receiving that she was at the point of death. The funeral will be held Friday at the residence one mile west of Reiffsburg. I o A SHOE CONVENTION. I Charles Voglewede and son, Robi ert, this morning left for Indianapolis, i where the former will attend the ReI tail Shoe Dealers’ convention, being ■ held in the capital city, which con- , vened today. While there Mr. Voglewede will visit .with various relatives, along with looking .'iftrr business at faira.

WILL GO TO RIPLEY Martin Beery and Sons Purchase 120 Acres of Land in Ripley County. SELL LAND HERE Ed and Wilson Beery Will Move to New Possession to Make Future Home. In about two weeks Adams county I will lose two of its substantial residents —Ed Beery of this city and his brother, Wilson, of near Pleasant Mills, who, with' their families will | go to Ripley county to make (heir I 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. Ed Beery 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, who has served nearly five years as motorman for the Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway company, being one of its oldest and most trusted employees, resigned Tuesday evening in view of his approaching removal to Ripley county. He was succeeded by Henry Kruel. A COSTLY BLAZE Log House on John Tonnellier Farm Burned Together With Lot of Tools. n ‘J * - - VALUED AT $500.00 Belonged to Billy McQuay, Who With F. Nolan Had Bachelor Home There. Billy McQuay and Frank Nolan, employed by John Tonnelier 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 it; the roof. It was first noticed by Mrs. Will Singleton, a neighbor, but it had gained such headway, that it could 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, suffered a SSOO loss, as nearly all his clothing was in the house at the time, besides a lot of automobile tools, 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 Mr. Tonnelier 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 In surance company of which Dr. Keller . is agent, 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 attrition.

— DEATH RATE INCREASES. The death rate among the Indiana veteran? of the civil war has increas cd 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. Ho has ;u»t completed his semi-annual report to the department commander which covers the period ending the year. In 1906 the numbet of veterans enrolled in the Grand Army posts was 14,309. That year there were 711 deaths. The rate will no doubt increas' much more rapidly than ever before during the next six years because of thfe increasing years of the veterans. The semi-annual report Just completed shows there were 352 posts In active operaticn in December. BOARD LABORERS P. H. Butler, of Chicago. Will Open Commissary in Auto Building. I WITHIN TWO WEEKS ’ I I Is Here Today Arranging il Details —Will Take Care , of Construction Men. *■- - - P. H Butler, president of the ChiI cago Commissary company, one of the , I largest concerns of the kind in the j • country, is in Decatur, and has closed | a contract for conducting a commis- ' sary, or workmen’s hotel here during ' the summer and perhaps longer. Mr. ’ Butler's company ugg an equipment,. I I for four thousand men and they have I handled a number of the big railroad ' jobs, looking after the construction gangs. His business here will be to . board and lodge tne wontmen on the sugar factory, it being estimated that there will be from two hundred to one thousand men here on the job alone, from March 15th to October Ist. Os j I course it will be impossible for this , city to take care Os so many and especially so this year, when there are many other improvements to require large forces. It was therefore up to jjie 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 i the autmobi'e factory building, where , he will arrange sleeping quarters for the men and where they will be com- ' fortably and well cared for. Mr. But- ' ler has contracts for many of the ne- ■ cessities, but will buy all the goods ■ here which he can, including meats, vegetables, groceries, garden truck, I ; etc. He will send an organization of I ■ trained men here to conduct the com- ' mlssary and will himself spend a large . part of the time on the job. He ex- ; pects 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 re- • lieve the city of caring for the greater s 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 i gentleman to meet Mnd will, we believe, treat everybody fair and square. oCHRISTIAN JUNIORS’ ELECTION. . Inaugurate Membership Contest— Will Give Easter Contest. • I The junior Christian Endeavor so- | ■ j ciety of the Christian church, under i .' the superintendency of Miss Dorothy Schultz, is doing a good work, making i rapid growth.. New officers were elect- ■ ed 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 cap- ■ tain of the “blue" and James Dawson, i captain of the “red.’ They expect to i gain many new members. They are r also working for a life-membership i with the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions, and Vician Burke and Vera r Eady have Peen appointed to work i with their superintendent for this. ? An Easter concert will also be given, Mrs. Minnie Daniels to have charge e of this, and a busy time store for band. ••

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WRITES FARMERS •*. «>»—>■ 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, Indiana., 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 sugar industry, with the many independent factories scattered all over the country. The letter, which is being sent out by C. I M. McLean, president of the Holland--1 St. Louis Sugar company, owner ot ' the Decatur factory, says that the success of the sugar trust means lower prices to the farmers for beets. This would prevent the further development of the beet sugar industry in Indiana. In his letter, Mr. McLean says: “The American Sugar Refining company, the Federal Sugar Refining company, Arbuckle Bros., and other refining interests, all located on the seaboard, who have absolute control of the sugar refining industry in this i country and also some of the large cane sugar planters in Cuba, are now endeavoring to influence public opinion «nd sre making an effort in congress j to bring about a further reduction of ; this tariff in order to prevent further I development of the beet-sugar industry. These refining interests import raw I 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 dutj was 2c a pound and equivalent to 80 per cent ad valorem. About 90 per cent of our foreign sugar comes from Cuba and 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 5%c per pound, it is only a simple matter of arithmetic to show that this duty is equivalent to less than thirty-three per cent ad valorem. “The refining process is very simple and distributes very little wealth among the American people as compared with the production of beet sugj ar. For the 600,000 tons of beet sugar now produced, there is paid to the 1 American farmer, workman and sup- ! plyman, abeut $45,000,000. If the to i tai consumption of sugar in this country—3,6oo,ooo tons— were all grown and manufactured in the United States, the actual distribution among the farmers and workmen would amount to $270,000,000, while if it were all imported, it would amount to only $36,000,000. There are now seventy beet sugar factories in the United States. It would take over 400 factories to produce the total sugar consumed. Would it not be much better to have this vast sum —$270,000,000 — distributed by so many separate interests, widely scattered over the United States than to have the entire sugar indusry controlled by half a i dozen gentlemen in New York, who i control the refining industry? “In addition to this, the production of all our sugar from sugar beets, would add immensely to the production of other crops from the well known fact that a root crop rotated with cereals improves the soil and very materially adds to the yield of other crops. “Sugar is distinctly an agricultural product, and the farmer who grows the beets is the largest beneficiary of the duty. The American farmer pays three or four times more for labor than the farmer in the tropical counties, where ran 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 manufaurer of beet sugar, to prevent the cutting of the tariff."