Connersville Curier (Newspaper) - September 24, 1908, Connersville, Indiana r li Ui a ili SEPT. 24. 1908. 10, No. 34. NOT TO VOTE ON WATER General Assembly are Caucus to Get Their 10 o'clock this morning the option battle will open in the At a conference late yesterday the Republican the Cox and made it a special order for thei morning Sept. 22AVhen the Senate reconvened this afternoon the again resorted to the expedient of taking a recess for the of completing agreement on a county local option delay did not arise from any among the but from details of the Following the which lasted only a few minutes and was devoid of any legislative the Senators got j together in conference for the purpose of making Indiana or administrative measure water This was done by making a minor The salient features of this as amended were the same as those of the and it was thought Ije called up for but it would bear The Senate had already on yesterday afternoon stricken out the dual option section of the thus making it strictly a county option Republicans conference revealed the fact that several Republican votes would Durre and former of Evansville and the later of listed as Koehne also of Indianapolis was classed with but inasmuch as he was absent because of illness his would not be recorded against the of Gibson and and of Huntington and were regarded as The fourteen Democrats of the Senate were expected to stand together as one man in voting 'A recapitulation before the afternoon session gave thirty-one votes Classed as in were sixteen from the Democratic side and two from Durre and Hugg on the Republican side of the and were left out because of the doubt surrounding their to Avoid program had been for the passage by the Senate this afternoon in order that the measure might be carried over to hte House tomorrow The House leaders decided that they would not bring their own from the House committee because of the fact that a minority report by the Democratic members of the committee for indefinite postponement would precipitate a They wished to avoid a until affairs were in better opposition to the in the Senate placed under the control of Senator L. Ert who had made floor leader for the He was prepared to speak for perhaps an He was crammed full court facts and but above all he was to point out Republican inconsistencies and The young Senator welcomed the to expose the family skeleton of the majority and to lay bare animosities and factional of the main points was that Governor Hanly was insisting upon enactment of the option at the special session inasmuch as he feared that the Democrats would control the next or that if the Republicans were still in control after the election they would be of a not favorable to the reforms in the Republican Standing Democratic camp the were standing of of and of were doing and of indicated that he would vote with the but was not -as he had given similar indications Tight The Democrats still have hope of holding Some of leaders insist that the minority will line-up Its full strength of votes against the OF quiet talk was heard around the legislature yesterday about bribes and One defined rumor had it that the Republican State organization was on the trail of a Representative who was supposed to have been reached by the brewery The according to was to make a horrible example of the and in the sensation incident to the exposure gain force for the option cause to carry the measure far over the dead In this connection it was recalled that the Baker expose four years ago gave the votes that it never would have got under normal of the wise members of the party characterized the sensation producing rumor as and explained that all the leaders wished to do in the case cited or in any others like was to get enough facts together to scare the unwilling member or members into say the Democrats will lose and still others add the full number of recalcitrants to the Ones that will be lost to the Democracy when it comes time to take a soon as the Senate passes the and it is sent to the house the pressure on the Representatives will let down with more force than ever Recalls Action and Adopts A Legal Mayor's Saturday's Morning win Be no special election next question will be held in abeyance until council can proceed In a repeal ordinance which had the effect of recalling the council acknowledged its defeat on the proposition of a canal system and took cognizance of the opposition to its Kantner attended the B. Conference at several days last of Cottage the guest of Miss Nellie Sunday G. L. of will preach in the C. U. church next Sunday morning and Conner and of spent Sunday evening here with his Conner and new M. E. U. G. assigned to Brownsville is expected to arrive in a few large crowd attended the colt show here last Thursday Frank Webster's colt won tile Jennie of was calling on relatives here Saturday and Gertrude Callaway accompanied her Gertrude of was the guest of her uncle and T. W. Mcintosh and Friday and Sam who has been under the care of a doctor for several and suffering from sciatic is reported Bennet returned the middle of last week from a hunting and fishing trip to Mich. He reports the fires in that state as D. Bennett and Miss have returned from a visit with Mrs. Burns and and at Rush members of Brownsville lodge F. A. attended the laying of the corner stone of the Public Library Tuesday mail carrier Orville after two weeks vacation has again taken his Orville is a hustler and does not play while on Government Democrats of Union county opened their campaign at last Saturday The address was delivered by Rev. of A number of our people were in long drought caused a number of wells in town to go dry and a number of cisterns have been dry for some time and some of the residents are compelled to haul water for house use from the had a very pleasant from our long time friends Asa V. Bradrick and his estimable of who are visiting Indiana and They were born and reared in Brownsville and their many friends here are delighted to see them Mr. Bradrick was the only Democrat since the war to ever be elected Clerk of Union He was editor of the Connersville Courier and afterward of the Shelbyville He and his family have been in Spokane for seven years and are meeting with splendid the city council met in adjourned session last night Mayor Barrows had a repeal ordinance ready and at his own request he was to read it The said he wished to correct such typographical errors as might have crept in and reason would prefer to be his own reading ordinance recited briefly the intent and purpose of the special election ordinance passed by council last month and provided for its This ordinance was supplemented by a also prepared by the directing the chairman of the water city attorney and city engineer to prepare a notice calling for bids for the construction of an UP-TO-DATE pumping station and water When such bids shall have been received the question will be submitted to the voters at an are the mayor had finished the reading of repeal chairman of the water move that the rules be suspended and the ordinance placed on its member voted for a suspension of the whereupon a vote was taken on the final passage of the ordinance and again every member mayor then read his su resolution was adopted in the same manner as the mayor's resolution provides that the chairman of the water the city attorney and the city engineer be directed prepare a notice to bidders calling for a proposal to enter into a contract to build and complete an pumping plant and to provide sufficient supply of water and to connect the same with mains of the and to lease such water jumping plant and mains to the city for a term of and to provide for a definite fixed amount at which all of said property shall be sold to the city at expiration of the of the and that if any proposals shall be complying with the terms of the that council will thereupon submit the best proposition so received to the decision of the be divided into two groups in regard to this and each of these groups by their representatives have complained that the method adopted by the common council is not technically in com liance with the parties purporting to represent each of this controversy have claimed that any expenditure for such election as now provided would involve a personal responsibility on the part of city the city treasurer has been informed by his counsel that the payment of the proposed election may render personally BECK YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT 4:15 His Home on West Seventh Years Old and Highly LAY Morning is again in sorrow the common council has over the loss of another of its the rules being suspended and a roll-call vote As before the vote was Mayor's Following is the full text of the mayor's the city council of the city of being desirous of submitting queston of a water supply to the decision of the voters of the city of and for the purpose of wishing to submit all the deemed feasible at an did on the 24th day of 190S, pass ordinance No. 511, the advice of their legal counsel at the time being that ordinance did not exactly comply with certain the that it was the best and fairest means which such counsel were able to to submit the water question for the fair decision of voters at a special is it has come to the knowledge of the council that the citizens of the town desire to pay any of the city's expenses out of the private purses of its nor to waste the city funds in litigation with either sde in controversy when the same may be avoided by technical Legal be it that the chairman of the water the city attorney and the city engineer be directed to draw and prepare a notice to bidders calling for a to enter into a contract to build and complete an up-to-date pumping plant and to provide a sufficient supply of water from gallery wells and to connect the same with mains of the city of for a term of and to provide for a definite fixed amount at which all of said property be sold to said city at the expiration of the period of said and providing for a bond of sufficient amount for the performance and maintenance of such that when such notice shall have been submitted to the common council at a regular and and have been published for a period of thirty that if any proposition or propositions shall be received complying with the terms of such that the council will thereupon submit the proposition so received to the decision of the voters of the city of SENT TO TO MAIN Tuesday's Morning W. F. Smith and Rev. John Machlan were returned to this city by the Methodist Mr. Smith to First church and Mr. Machlan to the East Connersville Rev. Elmer St. Clair has been sent to Grand Avenue church to supplant Rev. L. D. appointments in the Conners ville district E. B. Burt D. J. E. J. W. U. G. F. E. T. J. John George E. T. R. J. W. J. T. George B. M. S. W. B. H. D. H. S. C. H. F. A. M. 0. E. L. V. W. J. L. First G. Smith S. West H. 0. S. A. for Local conference at was brought to a close yesterday and at noon the in several went to where they had arranged to appear before the General Assembly to use their influence in the passage of the county local option It was planned to hold short services on the State House steps and have the District Quartet sing Saloon Must the members were to visit the next conference will be held in Connersville and Evansville were other J. Wines was elected conference petition was circulated for to Representative Harry S. of urging that lie favor the county option More than one hundred signed esteemed and respected Samuel W. He passed away at his home yesterday afternoon at 4:15 W. Beck came to this city with his William H. Beck and Christina when he was about seven or eight years and been a resident of Connersville since that He grew from boyhood to manhood and commanded in the fullest at all the highest respect of his fellow He was an influential member of the well-known and popular firm of W. H Beck's Sons clothing house in this city and was prosperous during his business for Two had been an invalid for several but at times it seemed he would and then the disease would gain on him and his health would break even more than He to attend to until about two years when he was compelled to retire from active His health began to fail him five years since which time he suffered His death was a great shock to those who are left to mourn since it was entirely He passed to the great beyond peacefully and with a smile on his family has had to endure bereavement of three deaths in the last eleven in W. Beck was born in Fayette February 4, 1S46. His was then engaged in tailoring business and was also founder of the W. H. Beck's Sons clothing was an active worker and prominent in Democratic politics a was universally respected by his and opponents For several terms he served this city as councilman and proved his ability as an He was a stockholder in Connersville Blower Company and also possessed large holdings in real estate in the city and 1870 he was united in marriage to Miss Emma Sparks in this only surviving relatives are a D. a William H. Beck and a Miss Genevieve who reside in this city on Eastern arrangements for the will be made this W. E. Stone at the opening of Purdue University gave utterance to the following words in his influence of activity which does not work in harmony with the main purpose of the university is and it is actually engaged in tearing down that which the university is building up it becomes One such influence which is today doing immense harm to this because it is diverting students from their work and their is the Lafayette It is not my purpose to decry the saloon as an I leave But when it become influential in the life of the students of Purdue as is the present I can not be true the responsibilities of my office and not denounce that There is no possible way in which these places can aid or help any young man in pursuit of his No student can co-operate in the aims and purposes of the university and co-operate with the The two are not traveling the same they are moving in opposite Too many students are lowering their and defeating the very purpose for which they have come to the university by their patronage of these and I declare that no other problem before the university authorities is so as the lowering of students standards and ideals through the influence of the drinking places of No one can be a friend of the university and its aims and not work for the day when this demoralizing and degrading shall be eliminated from the lives of its THE is a list of articles deposited in a copper and placed in the of the beginning of public form Daily Examiner and of the development of the public library commission of laws of K. of P. lodge 11. and list of officers and members of Warren No. 15, F. A. of officers of the Grand F. A. M. of Indiana participating in the laying of the of Connersville No. 379, Benevolent and Patriotic Order of of No. 94, Improved Order of Red and membership list of Fayette No. 31, 0. 0. and laws of the Order of of of Weekly of Daily of Morning of Pen and Camera of of each of the following literary in which was written a short history of the D. 0. U. Biennial report of the Public Library Commission of State Federation of Club's year 1907-1908. of stamps from Mamie and Russell Denison children of Robert 1503 Grand of members of Senior class of High 1908. Ceremony at New Library Preceded and Followed by Two Men with the Oil iE OF WHICH BELONGED TO A KNIGHTSTOWN Detective Association Sent Men to Connersville in Auto to Apprehend entering a plea of guilty and being sentenced to prison at Michigan besides being fined and disfranchised for three jFred who confessed to stealing a horse from Chester Rhodes at seems to be making an effort to impart to tiie sheriff information about horses he He has told of nine horses he stole in this State and in and he also told where he disposed of From his talk the sheriff learned that he stole a horse at and also one at Michigan Burr is getting all the information he can from the prisoner and is notifying the proper persons so the an effort can be made to recover the Ever since his release from the Joliet prison Smith engaged in stealing horses on a large He says it was an easy way to get FIELD Acres Are Laid Bare by the Flames Tuesday's Morning after two o'clock yesterday afternoon the fire department was called in the vicinity of Oak street where several acres of clover was bur flames spread rapidly in the direction of the residence of Steve Burton and family where sickness prevailed at the it was seen that the flames were nearing the Burton an alarm was sent in and the department responded and extinguished fire after a hard It is thought the damage will be laying the cornerstone for the public library in the the local lodge of Masons entertained visiting officers of the order at a in their hall last A distinguished guest was Charles N. of grand master of the attending the laying of the cornerstone were ritualistic and but the that preceded and followed the lodge service was spontaneous and L. president of the Library opened the service and acted ifor Contractor Moffett in turning the building over to the Masonic grand Mr. Broaddus recounted some of the incidents in the development of the Carnegie library People's declared the present is A part of the money a few he five dollar bills and a few This general response mass of people a proprietary interest in the G. C. Lamb offered prayer and then followed an address by the I. Mr. Barrows was quick to see the discomfort of the who were obliged to stand in the so made his talk He merely brought out the salient points in the library's evolutionary process and declared that of all the acts of his official career none gave him more satisfaction than that which him with the is Master with a few brief preliminary proceeded with the part of the He was assisted by Grand of the Second Christian and other ferand and local officers of the A small copper containing numerous was placed in the whereupon it was annointed with wine and corn and Scores of school children stood near stone and with wide open eyes marvelled at the strange intervals during the service the high school its players attired in natty white duck rendered appropriate Mr. Mikels eluded his service and launched out in an address which lasted several and Haskell stooped and looked straight into the wondering eyes of a group of school children as he told of the mission which the cornerstone would have to fill throughout the He said that it could not shirk its could not prove faithless to the trust imposed upon it only a minute before ibut must remain a mute testimony of the work of the day for the generations to he was unlike some people inasmuch as it could not betray its a could not rid himself of the smell of and the people of this country had already classed him with the of was enveloped in a pungent which he was unable to shake off. Methodists and said had lost men in the same Makes secretary of the public library length on the library many interesting details public use of free led by the high school marched from the city building to library The city council and members of the Masonic lodge and school children from the Eighth street school teams to haul gravel by the load or at Ind. Payments every night for previous 0. King
