Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 April 1894 — Page 4
THE BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE. INDIANA. TUESDAY, APRIL. 3, 1894.
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ELEPHANTS CAREH I OK. If you have h house for sale or rent, and proving an “elephant on your haoaa,^ let oh look utter it. We’ll sell it or let it, us you wish, if there’s u possible eustomer in town. Rivet that fact in your mind, then call and we’ll clinch it. ./. A/, f HURLliY, Insurance, Real Estate. y and Loan. . . . Second Floor, First National Hank lluildinjf 1-l.v
CITY DIRECTORY. < ITY OFFIC ERS. Mayor. Charles H. Case Treasurer Frank L. Landes Clerk James M. Hurley Marshall William E. Starr Engineer Arthur Throop Attorney Thomas T. Moore Se<*. Board of Health . .'.Eugene Hawkins M. I)
COtTNCILMEN.
1st Ward... Thomas Abrams, J. b Handel •’•'‘t ” Geo. K. Blake, James H rid new
John Riley. John K. Miller
2nd 3rd
J. ILCutler
Gw. II. Cooper
Street Commissioner
Fire Chief
A. Brock way. ) Mrs. Mary Birch, - School Trustee*. I>. L. Anaei’son. ) K. A. Ogg, Superintendent of city schools. F<IKKST HILL CEMETEKV HOARD OF DIIIECT-
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J.8. McCl&ry Pres John t .BrownInk v P**©* J. K- Langdon Sec H. K. Kenick Treas J auv(‘s Daggy .Supt K. E. Black. A. t>. Ltx'kridge. M»*etinir first Wednesday night each month at J.S. MeClary’s office. SECRET SOCIETIES. I. O. O. F. GREENCABTLB LODGE NT) 348. Bruce Frazier N O L. M. Hanna ; Set* Meeting nights, ever\ Wednesday. Hall, in Jerome Allen’s Block. 3rd lloor. PUTNAM l/ODGE NO. 45. John A. Michael .N G E. P. Chaffee. See Meeting nights, every Tuesday. Hall In Central National Bank block, 3rd floor. CASTLE CANTON NO W, P. M. J. A.Michael Capt • hat Mefkt Seo First and third Monday nights of each month. GREENCASTLE ENCAMPMENT NO. *>9. John < ook J P ( has. H MeikeL Scribe First und thitd Thursdays. D. or H. NO. 10H. Mrs. II. II. Morrison N. G D. E. Badger St* Meeting nights, every 2nd and 4tli Monday of each month. Hall in central Nat. Bank building, 3rd floor. GHKENCA8TLB IX)DGE 2123 G. V. O. <»K o. K. Wm. Hartwood -N.G H. L. Bryan P. ^ Meets first and third Mondays. MASONIC. EASTERN STAR. Mrs. Hickson W. M Mrs. Dr. Hawkins See First Wednesday night of each month. OKEKNCASTLECHAPTER It. A. M. NO 21. H. K Kenick H. P II. Beals Sec Second Wednesday night of each month. BLUE LODGE F. AND A. M. Jesse Richardson. W. M H. 8. Beals.. Third Wednesday night of each month. COM M ANDEHY. W. II. 11. Cullen E.C J. McD. HayS Si* Fourth Wednesday night of each month. KOGAN LODGE, NO. 19. K. A A. M. H. I.. Bryan .W. M w. Cain... • • Meeis second und fourth Tuesdays. WHITE LILY CHAPTER, NO. 3, O. E. S. Mrs. M. Florence Miles W M M!•«. M. A. Telster ... Sec Meets second and fourth Mondays
GRADING TILE DRAINS. All the Outfit Needed Is a Water Level, an Ax and Some >taken. A writer who has done a fjreat deal of ditching for 25 years describes his plan for obtaining the grade of the l<ottom of a tils ditch in the absence of a skilled ditcher. He makes his report as follows in the Ohio Farmer: I take my ax and a stake and go to where 1 want the ontlet of my ditch. I drive the stake as near the center of proposed ditch as may be. I then take the level, go to upper end of ditch and place the level a footer more above the ground to clear all obstructions from a perfect view of stake at lower end of ditch, then drive a stake down even with top of level. Now I have the grade stake at upper end of ditch fixed. I then sight over my level to stake at lower end of ditch and have a boy there to mark where the level line strikes the stake. Now I can readily see the amount of fall obtainable in my proposed ditch. 1 next drive another stake down so the top will be as much lower than the level mark on first stake as 1 have fall in FINDING A GRADE IN T1I.F. DITCHES, whole length of ditch, provided it is to lx* put on the one grade the whole length. The two end stakes thus set fix the grade of ditch. After this is done I drive three or four stakes, according to lengt h of ditch, driving them down to a perfect grade on top with the two end stakes. Now I have a perfect grade line on top of stakes, which represents the grade in bottom of ditch, and to transfer it to the bottom I make a grade stick—say 4 feet long, more or less, as may be required, according to depth of ditch or height of grade stakes above the ground, and with this stick I dig down until the top of grade stick, when set plumb in bottom of ditch, 1 comes on a perfect line with top of grade stakes. The grade stakes must he all set on a perfect line, as near on a line with the center of the propoaril ditch as may be, and hence will have to be removed as yon come to them in digging the ditch. Before disturbing the last stake but one, set another stake beyond the first in order that you may maintain your grade to the end. By using your grade stick often the grade of your ditch need not vary a quarter of an inch in 20 rods. I usually lay and blind my tile about as fast as I dig the ditch. At least when I quit at night I have my tile placed and blinded to within a rod of the end of finished ditch. I leave some six or eight tile that I do not blind. This gives all the water that may gather in the ditch a chance to get into the tile, and by placing a thin flat stone between the ends of the second and third tile, so no dirt can run into the tile below, your ditch remains perfectly secure until finished. By laying the tile as fast as the ditch is dug you maintain a much better grade than can possibly be had after the ditch is allowed to lay until the water cuts out the bottom or ! caves in the sidts and with much less la-
K SIGHTS OF PVT HI AS. F.ACI.E DODGE NO. 1H. Wir.. M. Browa * O It. S. Beals F.very Friday night on did Moor over I Ins. Abrams store. OHEENCASTl.K DIVISION l\ H. W. E. Starr Gapt II. M.Smith Sec First Monday night of each month. A.O.C.W. COt.I.EGF. CITY LODGE NO. It. lonn Denton— M. W A. H.Phillips See Second and 4th Thursdays of each month. DEGREE OF HONOR. Mrs. It L. Hlifi-rt C. ol H Mllle Black *ee Firsi and third Fridays of each month. Hall on 3rd floor City Hall lilock. RED MEN. OTOE TRIBE NO. 140. Jacob Kiefer Thoa. Sage Every Monday niirht. Hall on City Hall Block. HOY A I, ARCANUM. i.otcs counxii.no. :w>. W. G. Overst reet It Chas. Landes. Si-c Second and fourth Thursdays of each moot h Meet In G. A. It. Hall. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. MYSTIC TIE LODGE, NO. IITiP w a. Howe Dictator J I). Johnson Reporter Every Friday 111sh 1. 0. A. K. GREENCASTLE POST NO. 11. A M. Me\on * C L. P. i Impfn 'J*. Win. II. Hnrke Q.-M Every Monday cvenlnir at i:3no'olock. Hall corner Vine and Washington streets, 2nd
floor.
WOM IN'S RELIEF CORPS. Alice It < haulti Pin's Louise Jacobs See Meetings every second and fourth .Monday at 8p. m. G. A. ft, Hall.
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New Horticultural l.lma Iteans. Among the novelties of last year none perhaps enlisted more interest than this supposed cross between the lima and old horticultural pole bean. The cross. : it is claimed was made by insects. Here ! is what a correspondent, who has grown this beau four seasons under many conditions of soil, climate and culture, says , about it in a communication to Rural
New Yorker:
Its foliage and habit of growth are more of the type of the Horticultural Pole than the Lima, while the structure and shape of the pod and bean belong to the latter. It roots strongly, and its j rapidity of growth under favorable col1 ditions is something remarkable. It begins to blossom early and sets its crop close to the ground. I do not consider it so strong a runner as either of its parents and use poles six to eight feet high in my field culture. While not so
IN 1 Ht CLASSIC STYLE. The ArlLtle Spirit of Bygone Haya Embodied In Tills Modern Home. [Copyright, 1RP4, by American Press As>Delation. ] The frequent agitation of the question of architectural style in this country is a subject which has a fascination for every one who may be more or less familiar with buildings of recent date. The wealth of the country, the energy and originality of the people and the condition of modern life offer a rich Held for the growth and development of architecture in every branch, but
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FRONT ELEVATION. more especially in domestic work. But the facts are today that in whatever direction we are tending it is t he classic style and spirit that are most influential upon modern work. Here we have their effects through many lands and changes, with the advantage of having access to all that has gone before and the privilege of selection and adoption from the best works of the master minds of the past, so that there is noexcuse for the display of poor taste or the use of inappropriate design in plans or out lines of a structure. Here is a home which is pleasing and attractive in appearance from the mere simplicity of outlines and details and expresses 'he taste and refinement of our grandfa'bers of colonial days. The cellar is seven feet in depth, with walls of stone laid in cement. Above the
FIRST STORY. foundation walls the house is of wood, framed and braced in the old fashioned way, with corner posts and girts framed in and braced at the corners. The exterior side walls are sheathed with tongued and grooved lumber and covered with tarred paper and olapboarded with the usual beveled siding. The roofs are shingled with 18 inch cedar shingles. The gables are covered with 6 by 18 inch white pine shingles laid 4!.> inches to the weather. The corner hoards have neatly molded caps and bases, nnd all the exterior details are in simple classic spirit. Inside the rooms show for themselves as to arrangement. The floors are doubled. First a tongued floor of spruce is nailed diagonally across the beams, on top of which is blind nailed the finished floor at
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CONVENIENT CELLAR HOTBED. Warmed by the Furnace Within and the Sun Without, It <»ive* Satisfaction. A writer in American Gardening tells the following: My neighbor’s house is heated by a furnace: consequently the cellar is always warm. He uses the south end for a workshop in the winter. A few years ago he wanted more light than the small ordinary cellar window afforded, so he
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Auditor
Sheriff
Treasurer
Clerk
Kecordcr Surveyor
Scnool Superintendent
Coroner A - . ssor
See. Board of Health
Boo. M. Black
F. M. Olid,'well.
<»<si. Hughes
I tunic! T. Darnell Daniel 8. Hurst
i. F. O'Brien K. M. Lyon. T. W. McNetr
'V rn. Broadstreet. G. 4V. Bence, M. 1).. J. D. Hart. )
gtiinucl Farmer > Commissioners.
John S. Newgcnt)
THE NEW HOltTIClLTl HAL LIMA BEAN. productive as some of the large varieties of Limas it is still a good yielder, and I have grown 30 Irashels of hand picked beans to the acre. The quality is excellent green, shelled or dry. The color is dark only when cooked in the dry state, The pod is tough and leathery and protects the inclosed bean from injury when they come in contact with the soil. It is not an easy bean to shell in the green state, but will compare well with other Limas in that respect. I find it, at the projier stage of growth, an excellent snap short bean. As tested last season, it is two weeks earlier than the Horticultural i Pole.
SECOND 6T0UY. right angles to the floor beams. The side walls nnd ceilings are hard finished in two coats of brown mortar and seasoned lath. The stairs are of cherry. All other woodwork is of cypress, stained, filled, varnished and rubbed smooth. The Douse is fully equipped with all modern improvements and is heated by n hot air furnace. This house can be erected for fll.oOO. 1). W. Kino. The Stone Cottages of Kiiglaml. In strong contrast to our country dwellings are the stone cottages of the humblest laborer of the British isles, with their thatched roofs and roses climbing to the very chimney tops. It is to lie hoped that the day will come when our rural architecture will la* creattsl from the abundant stone that may be had for the cartage in many adjacent localities. This native stone, when put up by a rural stonemason by the perch, is a very cheap structure. It is, moreover, picturesque when green vines tone down its rugged harmony, and especially if the architect shows any taste in its treatment. A fine specimen of “broken Esbler" in the crude stone may be seen in the gateway of the Davidson place on the Kock vdle pike, near Washington. It is of cream color quartz stone, which atiounds in the Bethesda district. Another specimen of rugged stonework t hat has withstood the storms of a century and is still young in its old age Is the Xourse homestead and the president’s country house adjacent on the same road. No paint pots needed for their unfading colors nor harassing fear of the fire fiend. By purring out the interior of a stone bouse for the plasterer one obtains a cool, dry house for summer and a warm, close shelter in winter. I have found the best modern type of the stone sabtirbau house near Philadelphia, where they are low and broad, of one or tw o stories, with an attic. Insist on broad fireplaces in the country, where one may have the real luxury of a log fire. It might be superfluous to suggest t hat one avoids the dust of the highways and obtains better effects by building well back from the road and of course upon an elevation, either natural or artificial.—Washington Star. A Hangero,.* Fad. The copper vases of Benares and Cash mere are again in great demand by bric-a-brac hunters. It is a dangerous fad for the novice to take up, for a liberal estimate would put the proportion of genuine to counterfeit imported to this country at about 8 per cent.—Builders’ Monthly.
RIOT AND DESTRUCTION. TLey Are In Full Force In the Pennsylvania Poke Kegfton. Uniostown, I*a.. April 3. —The storm has broken, and the scenes of 1891 are being repeated throughout the coke region. The big coke strike, with all its attendant rioting and destruction of property, is now in full force. Four- | teen thousand men are involved and al- ! ready serious conflicts have occurred. Men who attempt remaining at work are being driven off in raids upon the premises and a condition of terror pervades the entire district. The strikers are in a state of destitution and are reckless of consequences. They openly declare that they will drive out every man who wants to work, and say they will burn plants before they will allow them to be operated at present rates. lluliu of a < am pa if; n. Uit ban a, Ills., April 3.—Colonel S. T Busey. who occupied the congressional ciiair of Joe Cannon’s district for twe j years, is interested in a relic of his last campaign, when Joe Cannon resumed his seat in congress. Colonel Busey has been sued by Patrick R. Clancy, who until a few weeks ago was chief of police of Champaign, for which Clancy claims due him for services done for the colonel in the last election and for which he has not yet been paid.
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Columbia, tS. C., April 3.—There is nothing warlike here. The Newberry Rifles sent a resignation to Governor Tillman. He refused to accept it. hut
in a written answer dishonorably dis-
charged the company, saying: “I trust
1 may never lie bothered with any more A (VI IT \A/ I T A such bandbox and holiday soldiers." j ” ■ ” l— w” • * • •
News from Darlington says absolute
quiet reigns.
Warehouse Accident. Chicago. April 3.—Two immense hopper scales filled with wheat, on the ninth floor of the Chicago Dock company’s warehouse, collapsed yesterday afternoon. killing Thomas Keller and Peter Thompson. Several other workmen were painfully injured.
Hattie With Indians. ElRk.no, O. T.. April 3.—Information of a desperate tight between Indians and white settlers in the Choctaw country west of here, in which two white men and five Indians were killed, has
reached here.
Fire Th on Hand Striker* In Ctifcajpo. Chicago. April 3.—Fifteen hundred plumbers struck yesterday because of a proposed re.!action of wages. Striking mechanics in different branches now number 5,000 men. Georgia’* New Senator. Atlanta, April 3.—Governor Northern lias appointed Patrii k Walsh, talitor of the Augusta Chronicle, as senator to succeed Colquitt. PRUNING ’GRAPEVINES. When and How to Prune—Thing* to Reniemher—A Satiid'aclory Trellis. When is the best time to prune grapevines? Tins is a mooted question. Opinions differ. There was a time when February and March were considered the only orthodox months for this work, and this practice is still held by many grape-
You will remember that Goliah was very much surprised when David hit him with a rock. He said such a thine; had never entered his
head before.
A HOTBED IN THE CELLAR, enlarged the window, at the same time making a place for keeping plants over winter and starting seed in the spring. The opening in the cellar wall was enlarged to about 4 feet long and down a little deeper than the level of the ground outside. A splice 2 feet wide and the length of the opening was furnished with good garden soil. Then a hotbed sash was made the length of the opening and of a width sufficient to reach from the top of the opening to the outside edge of the prepared soil. The triangular ends were also inclosed with glass. This arrangement gave a space of 4 by 2 feet of good garden soil, warmed by the furnace within and the sun without. House plants were kept there in winter and seeds started in the early spring the same as in a hotbed. This contrivance has continued to give satisfaction and is much less trouble than a hotbed. I’lants Fur Precipitou* ItunkH. The Rural New Yorker advises, when one has lake hanks or precipitous banks in any part of the grounds where the lawn mower cannot well be used, it is a good idea to plant honeysuckles, peri winkles and the like. The authority quoted says: We have seen knolls covered with Hall's honeysuckle so thickly that not a weed or blade of grass could be seen. It forms a perfect mat a foot thick and covering a rocky knoll 10 feet high and perhaps 34) feet in diameter. Here and there an Adam's needle (Yucca filamentosa) thrives, growing a foot or more above the honeysuckle. The effect is pretty enough for almost any part of a wild or semiwild garden, hut it is especially effective and useful where grass will not thrive or where it is troublesome to keep it properly cut. llo*e Geranium*. In propagating soft wooded plants, cuttings should be carefully taken so as not to injure the parent plant. American Agriculturist advises as follows: With a sharp knife cut the terminal shoots just at the base of a leaf and remove the leaf close to the stem. The cuttings will then root freely in dean sand, which is much better to use than soil. Pot off as soon as the roots are half an inch long, using thumb pots. Plants grown for their foliage should never lie allowed to flower, as they then become weedy in appearance. In the house geraniums are apt to grow spindling. To prevent this keep them well cut back when they show flowering buds, thus making stocky plants. Making Cutting*. If propagation is to be done, liegin With hard wooded plants and others that do not root quickly and end with the soft wooded kinds that root readily. The former require more time not only to root, but to make a new growth. It is a common mistake to neglect [lotting cuttings till the roots have become so long that many of them are destroyed in the handling. In this way much time is lost not only in handling the plants, but also in the recovery of the plants from the shock they have received. The window gardener need not bother himself much about cuttings till the month of March, says Orchard and Garden. Worthy of Note. Biunulda is, in tiie opinion of Rural New Yorker, about the finest spirtea in cultivation, finest for its round, compact form, for its free and long continued
bloom.
According to Meehan's Monthly, the Mexican jumping bean and other seed, which occasionally seem to have the power of leapi.-g, owe this peculiarity to the motion of insects which make their
homes in these seeds.
The Eulalia gracillima vittuta is a welcome addition to the Eulalia family and to the list of hardy plants. It is a delicate looking and very beautiful grass, growing about three feet high. It has very narrow foliage, with a pure white stripe
down the middle of the leaves.
The Shipper's Pride plum is attracting
favorable notice in various localities. t
J. It. Trumpy, the well known propagator of the Kissena nurseries, says that
the Golden oak (tjnercus concordia) is I n “'‘ ls Half Kates to Indlnnapolis. the finest yellow leafed tree in the nurs- i-ranegrowers ' ‘ nonB ,he IIu<ls °n river The Vamlalla Line will make a rate «*ry grounds and that it holds its color . 1 s 1 _ . of $1.20 lor the round trip from Grecnthroughout the summer and fall. Boxes for sardines and holders for ciu ‘ t * e t0 J n< ^ ,l,,H P o Bs, April 24 and 25: Cannas are useful as pot plants in win- oran K e s are novelties out in silver nlatwl "'tnin limit to April 2i ; account refer and for outdoor Diant. in summer. , ware. P lHtod j P» >•»«»'« ^ate convention.
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A VERY GOOD TRELLIS, growers, but of late years fall pruning, ^ any time after the leaves drop, is becom- 1 * 3 4 5 ing more nnd more general. For the benefit of readers who still adhere to the j old practice is here reproduced from Gardening some hints on the subject of .
pruning.
The first tiling to remember is that the canes to bear fruit next year are to come from the buds of this year's wood, or, ■ to put it another way, this year’s wood contains the buds that are to produce the fruiting canes next year. If too much of ! this year's wood is left on the vine, there ; will be an attempt to produce more fruit than the vine can mature, and this re- ^ suits in weakening the vino and a crop I of unripe, ill flavored fruit. One should , also remember that the greatest growth is at the extremities, and if the canes are left long the fruit will follow, and in a few years it will he a long way from the trunk of the vine. It is no uncommon thing to see vines bearing their crop 10 or more feet away from the trunk when | it all might have been grown within a radius of three feet. If vines are wanted for shade as well as fruit, there is some ex- 1 cuse for them to cover more space than 1 is really needed tor the production of
fruit only.
Every one having the care of a vine should first decide on the system of 1 raining to be adopted and work to that end. These systems are numerous and subject to many modifications to suit individual circumstances and ideas. A trellis that appears to embody all requisites needed consists of three wires i) to 12 inche ; apart, the center one for the arms and the side ones for the branches, which are trained and tied to them. This saves
. the knikfin system.
them from loss by wind aiwl allows the clusters to hang independent and sejiu-
rate from each other.
The Kniffin system of training is a popular one in many sections and is
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