Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — TOO MANY MEASURES [ARTICLE]

TOO MANY MEASURES

Dispute Between a Can Inspector and the Great Standard Oil Trust. BAYS HB WILL TIE THEM UP Merry Time Ahead at Indianapolis—- “ Plenty of Room” 100 Years » Ago—State News Notes. Indianapolis, July 31. The city authorities acting for Isidor Wulfson, inspector of weights and measures, in agreeing to a smaller fee for the inspection of the Standard Oil company’s gasoline and oil cans and submitting the proposition to the company, met with a rebuff. The company declined the proposition. According to Wulfson the action of the company was the opening gun of a war which will now be waged to compel the trust to obey the city ordinance. Will Worry the Company. He said notice would be given the officials of the company that the regular Inspection of the 00,000 or more cans used daily by the company would have to be made and paid for, and that unless the ordinance was complied with to the letter, the wagons of the company would be stopped and the drivers arrested. Wulfson advised that small dealers and consumers in general prepare for an emergency by supplying themselves In advance of the threatened trouble.

Has a Ix»t of Cana. The city ordinance provides that dealers shall pay an Inspection fee of 5 cents for a gallon can, 10 cents for two-gallon cans, etc., in the yearly inspection of weights and measures. There has been little if any objection to the ordinance on the part of any dealers except the Standard Oil company This company has about 80,000 one-gallon cans. three-foin-tTis of the numtver being in daily use. The coinpnny objected to the Inspection because the large number of cans used by It made the payment of the inspection fee a burden. As a Matter of Course. Some time ago. according to Wulfson, the local manager of the company boasted to Wulf son and one of his deputies that if the company were com pelled to pay the regular fee for the inspection, that the company would Increase the price of oil and gasoline and thus compel, the public to shoulder the burden of the expense. To prevent tills It was proposed to Inspect Stand 8 r<l Oil cans at 1 cent a gallon. The (company offered $125 a year. And there It sticks. COMFORT FOR FLAT lAv ELLERS Time Was When Two Rooms XVere Considered •■Plenty" for n Family and All the Neighbors. Greenfield, Ind.. July 31. - Mrs. Ruth Clayton, the centenarian, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Catherine Lamb, at Philadelphia, this county, besides being 100 years old. •was a remarkable woman in many ways. She leaves forty grandchildren, seventy-one great-grandchildren, and eleven great-great-grandchildren. Until she went to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clayton lived alone in her log cabin near this city, where she made her home for sixty-eight year?. She was a Virginian, and she came to Indiana with her busband in 1834. They built a two-room cabin that was the .envy of the early settlers, and for years all the “big doings" in the coup ty were held at the Clayton home, because the Clayton family bad "plenty of room.”

Cut in Two at the Waist, Vincennes, Ind., July 31. Walting till an Evansville uud Terre Haute south-bound freight train was within fifteen feet of him. John Riley, a proa perous farmer, one mile south of this city, threw himself across the rails and ended bis life The wheels severed bis body at the waist before Engineer Tarnes could apply the brakes. Riley feared that he was losing his sight, and ho had been suffering from kidney and stomach trouble. Mrs Morton's Funeral. I Indianapolis, July 31. —The funeral aervlces of Mrs. Lucinda M. Morton, widow of War Governoi Oliver P. Morton, will be held at 3 p. in. today at the Central Christian church and will be conducted by Rev. D. R. Lucas The burial will be at Crown Hill cemetery beside the body of Governor Morton. • Fire in a Fibre Plant. Muncie. Ind., July 31.—The plant ot the Union Fiber company at Yorktown was partly destroyed by Sre. the less 'being estimated at $25,000. The blaze originated in the drying department and. but for tba employes' fire department, the entire plant,* valued at >75.000, would have been consumed. Hie Bride Awaited in Vain. Terre Haute. Ind.. July 31.—Robert Richardson, brakeman on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railway, riding to bls new home where a bride awaited his coming, stepped from the engine at the street crossing and was run over by a Vandalia switching train.