Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1903 — Page 1

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A BOND SALE The Date is Tuesday, September 3th. ■ —

Gilt-Edged Securities. Treasurer Voglewede will Receive Bids. Issue to be Used in Constructing the Two St. Marys Macadam Roads. Following the actions of the combiissioners in ordering the sale of I =r:

Rosenthals win Ohio City Loses in the ■ Twelfth Inning Bne of the Best Games of the Season Occurred Yesterday. ■ The Decatur l»i-e ball team won i m Ohio City Sunday in the inning by the narrow mar of one run. For six innings both "teams struggled along trying to a man aero.-- the plate and settne game but their efforts -vent , ed in vain until the last ot the tw- Ivth. With two men out and th .-core still a tie, Pennington sent • line drive to the race track which gave him three bases even after falling at first. Cofl'e,' followed with a (clean single and all was off. Thus 1 one of the most remarkable I gat nes ever played at Steele's park. Perhaps the most remarkable sea tore was the continual knocking that Ohio City put up and those who had bet the wrong way, but it was Ituse ball all the way through j and intensely interesting at that. In the first of the game through a lucky bunching of hits and one or two errors in overthrowing, Ohio City took the lead and a iierfectly DOE ten ted set of fellows they were. i, As the game progressed through bar playing the locals would send • Iman across the plate and tin n Ohio City turned yellow To every Etlev -ion that the umpire made KWbich was disfavorable to them » th< v kicked. Bunches of players ■that stoixl along first base would |s. Object to strikes that were called |WIi .ch they could not tell anything al- mt. and so it went. Knock—-g’'kn-.ck—knock, in everv clo-e deciio. they thought they got the worst it and again it was knock— K-ltr i—knock. Break away old LIB’ 1 rt * t,mt P"int with ffipe. There were two decisions in y's game in which I would disagree with the umpire but they Me too unstable supports to permit

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- t bonds for the two St. Marys township macadam roads, county- Treasurer Voglewede set things in motion to carry out the expressed intentions of the board. He has set the date at Tuesday, September 17, and will comply with the law in the proper advertisements and legality of said issue. The bonds will bear four and one half per cent and will be paid in semi-annual installments of |762. The issue for the two roads exceed ♦29,000 and as they are gilt edged some keen competition will likely want them. It is a fact that heretofore our local banks have met all outside comjxl- - and usually- offered more for county securities than foreign people have. They got them too, and it is a mark of great credit to the local banks and to this city- as well, to have financial institutions able to take care of such large loans. We hope this contest will end the ! same way and that Decatur bank-1 ers will have the credit of clipping the coupons of this issue as they semi-annually become due.

of as much knocking as has bean accumulating. In the first place, Ohio City had no license to win the game. Think awhile and you shall be convinced. France of the Rosenthals out-pitched the Ohio City twirler. He had 13 strike outs to Snyder s 11 and Decatur got 11 hits and the visitors 8. France let one man walk and Snyder 5. Again | after the third inning Ohio City i only got four hits and not one man ' ever reached third base. Decatur' on the contrary after the sixth when I the score was tied had two men on i third base and one on second. The ' home team batted the entire game i while Ohio City secured half their hits in the first three innings. Now isn't that luck? Left fielder Goodwin the poorest hitter Ohio City had, so they claimed him to be, even got a single in the lucky third. Furthermore Decatur outfielded their opponents. Ohio City had no hard chances to show them while the home team did and over and over again they demonstrated that they were there with the goods Now my friend if that doesn’t satisfy you I woud advise you to go I way back and sit down. The I score resulted 7 to 6 in favor of the Rosenthals. IN SESSION TODAY. Fair Managers Making Arrangements for Their Only. A number of managers of the Great Northern Indiana Fair, including the president and secretary, were in session providing ways and means for successfully carrying out the program due Sept. 22-25. . They are conijielltMl to make additional room for both exhibits and ' attractions wanting to come, and of course it is a foregone conclusion i that when theaejong heads got together they solved the perplexing i problem satisfactorily. Everything looks exceedingly bright for the greatest county fair ever held during the history of this corner of the earth. This sounds like we might be rubbing it on some, but ; it is the gospel truth, told in straightforward English. Their prosjiects are brightened some by j the fact that the fair here follows Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Hunt ington, Eaton, Chillicothe and Hicksville, all of whom are good contributors to our fair.

DECATUR, INDIANA, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1903.

MAKING FIGURES Real Warm Job at a Real Warm Time. Auditor Begins to Add the Two Per Cent to Land Valuations. z In conformity to the advices received from the state tax board ; as portrayed in our issue of Saturday, the work of adding two per cent to the land valuations of the county was begun at the auditor's office this morning. They are now ! perspiring over in Union township. ' and from there they will make the ! circuit ending up in Jefferson town ! ship some time in the dim distance. It is not thought probable ! that the additions can ail be completed and made of record by the time of the annual meeting of the i county council early next month, j At this session the county levies are all made and the total valua- | tions should be known as a basis of calculations. They will no doubt, i be far enough advanced to admit of the council completing their work at the time provided by law. The two ]>er cent, addition, however will keep the force at the auditor's office grinding away on a long and sol emn line of double crossed figures, , for several weeks to come. The job is not caluclated to make a person feel real gay. Allen conuty got a ten per cent dose off the same i chunk with Adams. WITH DYNAMITE. I Turkish Government Building Blown Up. As Reported From Vienna Two Hundred Men Were Killed. RpprHl to The Ph Ily Democrat. Vienna, Aug.2l—The New Frie Press's Constantinople correspondent telegraphs that band of Bulgarians attacked Turkish town Argos on east coast of Turkey, and blew up government buildings. It is re- ' jKirted that 200 people were killed. Birthday Dinner. Mrs. Mary Sacketts was only seventy-three years old Saturday, but her friends thought her old enough for a square meal. Quite! a number of her relatives and j friends t<x>k her home by storm and celebrated the oecassion in true; historic style. It was a gay time and was thoroughly enjoyed by Mrs. Williams of Indianujiolis, Miss Nora Garde of Wisconsin, Mr. and Mrs. Ilario Munn, Mrs. J. D. Lammiman, Mrs. Harriet Brandyberry, Mr. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Hur mon and family, Mr. and Mrs. T M. Gilson, Mrs. Aniniy Gould and son, C. H. Lamtniman and family, T. S. Perkins and family, W. L. Stanley and family, John Hook and family, Mrs. Peter Waber, Leo, Wililam, Joe, Hattie, Maggie and Anna Fuurot. It was a happy day and every one had an enjoyable time.

TO START WEDNESDAY R. J. Holthouse Now Selling Shoes for Conrad-Ralls Shoe Co. R. J. Holthouse came home Saturday from a week at Louisville where he was getting his samples in order for the f ill trip on the road. He will lik ly n ake the start Wednesday, and will cover his old territory in this state where he had become a famili ir and perm ment fixture among the shoe trade. Mr. Holthouse is now selling shoes for the Conrad-Ralls Shoe Company of Louisville, in which he is personally interested, being the owner of a block of stock and is one of the directors of the ‘company. They have a very strong combination of practical shoe men, and with these ■ advantages are sure to win out. OLD SETTLERS. — Ridgeville the Center of Attraction Sept. 9th. — Senator Albert J. Beveridge and Other Notables Will Speak. In speaking of the annual old settlers meeting at Ridgeville, the Portland Commercial-Review says: The arrangements for the greatest of the meetings of old settlers of Jay and Randolph counties ever held are about completed. The annual I meeting of the old settlers of the two counties will be held at Ridge- ! ville on September 9. United States i Senator Albert J. Beveridge is to | address the crowd and a number of other noted orators are to be I present. A public wedding to take I place from the speakers’ platform is one of the unique attractions which have been arranged for and a free dinner will be given to all persons of over eighty .years, providing such jiersons register their names with secretary in time for the dinner. When these meetings were first inaugurated the attendance each year was only a few hundred but its growth continued until last year the crowd numbered [no less than 30.000. Portland sent 800 by 1 ' rail last year and it is estimated that j many more than that number will ' go this year • IT IS FORBIDDEN. Profane Language Not Allowed bv Workmen on Logansport Church. | i And now conies the message I from Logansport that laborers on i the Methodist church there are bound unto the trustees, not to use profane language or intoxicating I liquor while at work. And for any ! violation of this the contractor is liable. We do not know how tried i and true the trustees in question j are, but if Deacon Smith should raise a ten pound hammer in his mighty right, and with all the! force of a pile driver, bring this weapon down on his left forefinger, j giving that member a rainbow hue and the proverbial pancake shape, we tremble lest he should lx l tempted to "express" himself. Perhaps ' he would not, but when he is clad in the armor, while his laborers likely are not, and cruel it seems that, should Dennis O'Flaherty fall three stories down to the basement, he must grit his teeth, and count fifty, lest he soil the atmosphere. Verily this is carrying com pulsory education to the limit.

HAD A ROCKY ROAD Decatur and Monroe Road Now Complete. "" ■ ' 11

Ready for Acceptance. — Has Been Under Construction Four Years. It is a Prominent Road and Now a Mighty Good One. The news Saturday that the Deca-tur-Monroe macadam road had been completed, has occasioned us to look up the records and history that has followed the construction of | this macadam highway. The election at which time the requiredi number of votes were recorded in favor of its construction, was held November 8, 1898. This was at the time of the general state election and a large vote was polled in favor of building the road. On I January 5, 1899, after the required notice by publication, bids were , opened for its construction. The lowest bidders were Miller & Wil-

WILL EXHAUST. Rural Route Fund Again in Jeopardy. Enough Remains to Establish Three Thousand Five Hundred Routes. — The present appropriation for rural free delivery will be exhausted ! before December 1. After that J date no more rural routes will be | established during the current I fiscal year unless an emergency apI propriation is allowed by congress, j< )n July lit was planned to estab- ' lish 0,000 routes this year. Os this number nearly 2,.‘)00 have already been authorized, and the remainder will be put in operation, as stated, by 1. No estimate has yet been made of the amount that will be necessary to carry the rural service up to June 30, 1004, but it j will probably be a large sum, in view of the fact that there is al-1 ready a deficit of about 1300,000, created by former Chief Machen in violation of the orders of Postmaster General Payne. /About 13,000 petitions for rural free delivery arc now ponding on which action can not be taken for more than twelve months. Two mysteries have been cleared up in connection with the postoffice investigation. The fact has lieen established that George W. Beavers, former chief of salaries and allowances, is a fugitive from justice, and that August W. Machen, 1

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| hams, who were awarded and later entered into contract to complete the same. Work began Aprill 5, 1899. Soon after this time a disagreement occurred in the contracting firm, and Mr. Miller withdrew. Then an injunction was brought in the circuit court to compel the ! contractor to comply with the specifications and -get the stone used from the Decatur quarries. They “had quarried their own stone for a time from the Robinson quarry, but found it slow and expensive, so bought some stone from the Watertown quarries and had it shipped in. In the injunction suit, the court : held against the contractors and they appealed but no decision had yet been given by the higher court. Some t ime ago an agreement was reached and this suit withdrawn, and since then the work of completing the road has been in progress. The road is one of the most prominent leading to this city and its incomplete condition was a source of i aggravation to all who traveled it. We dare say that all the macadam roads in the county have been less trouble to the board of commissioners than these few miles of incomplete road. One member of the board ventured the assertion that he had spent 'at least thirty days time of twenty-four hours each, at different stages of progress in the road. The fact that it is now ready for acceptance by the engineer will ’le hailed with delight by every one. It is complete in every way and is a good speciman of macadam roads.

former chief of free delivery, has not taken French leave, but is ' merely away on private business. HORSES ARRIVE. Fifteen Belgian Horses Came in Saturday Morning. The fifteen head of Belgian stallions for Frysinger & Sprunger arrived in this city on the Erie fast passenger train No. 7, about three o’clock Saturday morning. The car I was not set at the stock yards until an hour later and about that time 'the horses were unloaded. They . were very tired and after being led ito the Frysinger barns at Steele's ( park soon grew contented. The lot includes some fine animals which are in prime condition and would make fit subjets for a fair. One of the big ones weighs 2,300 jiounds and stands 17 1-2 hands high. Th. horses were purchased by Mr. Fry singer who is at the present time in Belgium. He will return sometime in September to this country and bring along another shipment of Belgian and Norman horses. BUSINESS GOOD. Joel Roe and C. M. France Bale and Ship Hay. Joe Roe and C. M. Franco who represent the business interests of St. Marys in the bailing and shipping of hay, report more business than they can conveniently handle. They have excellent facilities for . pushing the business and are the kind of fellows that will do the pushinsg act to a fare-you-well. The hay crop this year was sufficient to encourage the owners of hay bailers in spreadingout in their i business.