Washington Gazette (Newspaper) - June 18, 1910, Washington, Indiana WEEKLY THE GAZETTE AND SATURDAY JUNE VOLUME NUMBER SUCCESSFUL OP PRO WELLS AT OAKLAND WANT WELLS WILL DRILL In tie Brent Satisfactory Leases Can Be Secured These Men Will Go the Limit Are of and Smith of Evansville are In the city looking into the matter of leas ing land in Daviess county for the purpose of drilling for Both men are successful oil men and own Borne good producers in Gibson coun It is their plan to lease land south and north of the city and drill a well in eah They say when the drill starts it will go to the bottom or strike Doth men say they are hopeful of getting leases and that oil will be Rasch says he wells wil not go to any definite depth but will be drilled for the purpose of finding oil more than to experiment at any one It will be remembered that a well put down south of the Jty thir teen hundred feet years Rasch says isni deep enough and that ne be equipped to go twice that depth if So far it has been work to get Tiie two met say that they want several thousand and wan it that south of town they wan several thous and acres in one plat and the same north of The terms of their leases are more liberal than in Ill or in Gibson As these men will put up all the money and do the work it is to hoped that they soon wil be aide to start the machinery and give At the start one well will be drilled north and one south of Further drilling wil depend upon the results From their plans they mean business and if oil is found in the first well it will be put to pro ducing and other wells put In the minds of many there is a feeling that underlying this county is unheard of quantities of All that is needed is to poke the nose of a drill into the farm land has been leased and a few days should see the work of making the leases completed so work may five years are bearing and we are confronted with the fact that there Is a clamor altogether too pop ular that unneeded restrictions shall bet about banks that will hamper them in performing their proper The wily politician is ready to take advantage of such conditions to gain votes al any and even the great political parties are altogether too willing to cater to a thoughtless papular Smith stated that the postal sav ings bank is class and that if the measure should be come a it will drive money from the west to the east and work dis aster to the banks In the interior of the The following officers were elected by the new association Marcus Sonntag of this city sec and Bayard of Vincennes Washington BIcknell William Hoi Vernon Oak land and Charles Rock The bankers and visitors were giv en a boat ride on the Ohio river on board the steamer Joseph Fowler last WOMAN WANTS Suit for divorce was filed in the circuit court by Evonne Cun of the west The com plaint alleges that the plaintiff was married to Perry Cunningham De cember and that they lived together in an amiable and affection ate manner until September when without any fault on the part of the ily abandoned her and their home and departed to some wholly unknown to the plaintiff beyond the state of Indiana and ever since has so remained without communicating to leaving her to provide for except to such assistance as her father has occasionally given It is further alleged that at the time Cunningham disappeared he was in in the sum of to va rious creditors in the county and state and that besides this there was a mortgage for on their home in this Cunningham avers that with her own work and some as sistance by her she has finally paid all the floating indebtedness and also kept the amounting to annually fully paid on the mort She also alleges that Cun was an employe of the Southwestern railroad at the time he left and that she is advised the company iow owes him besides being in possession of some carpenter tools that belonged to The plaintiff in addition to asking for an absolute divorce de mands that the railroad company be ordered to pay over to her any mon ey owing by it to Cunningham and also turn over any property belonging to Tharp Gardiner are attorneys for the RANKERS AT June one and two of the Indiana bankers met In annual session here and organized themselves into group The were welcomed here in an address by Charles Heilman and responses were made by Henry Reis of this and Jonce of Thep Address of the day was irade by Andrew Smith of secretary of the In diana Bankers He said In part The growing number of fool bills being introduced In con gress and onr state legislature affect ing the financial and commercial In of the country is The seeds of sown MISS FISH A JUNE j An unusually pretty and attrac compliment was ten i dered Miss Helen Fish on Tuesday evening by the Misses Mary Lillie and Stella ODonald at the home on Oak street when those two i clever hostesses arranged a surprise miscellaneous shower in honor of the pretty i The guests included a large com i pany of Intimate friends of the who spent a merry even ing with various An unique method of presenting the were carried At the proper time a wheelbarrow dec orated in the national colors and filled with many pretty tokens from the was wheeled into the room and stopped before the of hon Light refreshments were served and favors of um were i Miss Fish is to he married within the next few days to David of Jeffersonville and the marriage will culminate a that had its inception when the two were at tending the state normal at Terre is a r ember of ia prominent family He is a graduate of state nor mal and is now doing special work at i the state university preparatory to accepting a place next fall is a her of the faculty of the Vin e tines During the term iust closed was of I the schools at thit state He is an uncommonly clever and gifted young man and during short j visits to the city he has made many Miss Fis has been teaching in the schools of the city for several I years and is extremely popular with i both patrons and She is a daughter of the late Leander Fish of i Martin county and moved to Wasli i ington several years ago with her sis She is prominent in First I Methodist church and is one of the most zealous members of the I While LaBuke is attending the state university they will live al but will make Vin cennes their home upon the com of the term this ASKS BIG Vincennes Commercial Harry the well known local is named as defendant in a damage suit filed In the circuit court Tuesday in which a judgment in the sum of for alleged The plaintiff in the suit is Lizzie 1 wao lives on the Terre I Haute road in the north end of the j The case Is another echo of the difficulty which occurred June 1 in front of the at which time whose bull dog was mixed up In a slashed Har ry of Vincennes because of which attack a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill Is still pending against j At the time of the I man and his wife were visiting at the home of and The plaintiff in her complaint al leges that the defendant wickedly land maliciously and with the inten tion of injuring her good name In i the estimation of the public and for the purpose of disgracing her in the yes of her neighbors and other worthy vexed and oppressed i and in the presence and hearing of divers slandered her by i publicly saying to Whose old i are you meaning the plain i tiff and meaning to charge that the plaintiff was a woman of immoral because of which she al leges she has been disgraced and her good name has been damaged in the sum of LAST CALL JOHN BROTHER OF DIES AT AGE OF John who was a brother of Henry Wagner of this fore man of the Southwestern paint died Monday morning at 6 oclock at bis home in after an illness of more than two Death was due to liver and kidney is sur vived by a wife and a large He was formerly an engineer on the but resigned two years ago because of poor Wagners death had been ex for some time and Henry Wag his who lives had been called to his bedside several He returned from Evansville Sunday night at 9 oclock and re a message announcing his brothers death about S oclock Mon day Wagner and son Herb of this city went to Evansville Monday after Will of east Walnut his to Evansville this Isaac died Friday morning at I oclock a cerebral at his home in Plain ville He was seventyfive years old and is survived by six sons and three One John lives on this He leaves sisters The body was brouh transferred to u O South a train Burial Sunday morning south of formerly at and is well known CARNIVAL The various ie I k the Hatch carnival which will he at th old fair all cf next off ii a sort of manner following votes cast up o date Ladies Claire Margaret Obe Mayme Catherine 1 i 1 Girls doll contest Josephine 77 tS Pear Ko wana IS Hattie 1H Marvel There are twelve dolls for girls no girl can win with less than 111 Boys Dewey Ger ald 491 John US Baby contest for diamond rings Lillian TiO Ralph 24 Homer S Robert Lillian wins in the first Second count closes June at in As an extra inducement 100 votes will be given in the ladies and boys and fifty in the girls and to the persons who make the highest gains before the next The first prize doll will be given to the girl having the largest vote on Saturday evening at 9 Presen tation in public at Wests jewelry store immediately after the Contest then goes on by dropping the MYSTERY SURROUNDS WORK OF SURVEYORS HAVE BEEN WORKING AT MITCH ELL TOR THE LAST TEN DAYS CHANGE The Mitchell Tribune says For ten days a corps of South surveyors has been at work at this They have been pain I fully silent but have gone on with the work and have surveyed and meas ured everything along the south side of the track for a distance of two In fact they have done ex the things that they would do in order to bring condemnation suit for the of is a precaution that they take against hav ing to pay an unreasonable price for The city that would suffer most from a change of divisions is Sey We give the following from the Seymour which Is as strongly in favor of that city as they dare p ut it There hac been rumoi for the past ten days concerning the possi bility of th iO Southwestern changing their division points as a matter of and making three divisions of the road instead of The as they generally been reported by the would indicate the possibility of cutting out the division points a Seymour and Washington and adding Mitch ell While there has been great deal of anxiety at Seymour un der the present apparently unsettled the same been true at Washington and other places aloni the Summing U may lie that the talk a chans of division has only come up because of an effort of the of in road to economize by lengthening the runs and the trainmen for the actual number of in their runs instead of hem make the short runc of from Seymour o or eih miles from Seymour to and them for ion miles in each that he of of tho road to Seymour as a division point because of its location that the railway em ployes own their property and are by no means to a to give up one of the He tele graphed his resignation as mail car Indianapolis Frederick a wealthy German citizen of Wal came to Indianapolis Saturday to take treatment in a He mysteriously yester He is sixtyfour years of His friends fear that owing to his his mind may have become affected and every effort Is being made to find He has consider able money with besides a gold watch diamond scarf Evansville The board of educa decided to pay Frank recently removed from the superin tendency of the Evansville bis salary up to the end of his con tract August Union City Hugh aged fifteen of Drake was trying to dig a bullet from a to use as a fish line sink the shell The bullet penetrated his right Just be low the collar and he died in five The hand that held the cartridge was not South Bend Gas and electric light plants in ten cities and towns in northern Indiana have passed to the control of Charles Geist of Geist combined the South Bend and Mishawaka gas com pany of South ana the Ply mouth Lighting company of Plymouth with the Northern Gas and which controls and oper ates gas and plants at East Indiana Porter and Michigan Tiie merger in volves The headquarters of tile will in South Kran a steamboat who worked on here and Louisville and here a years into e hen last night and city if a cer tain article Mia appeared in the pa rper a and placed it to his aud David a polim and Howard at Anderson aud prevented revolver Anderson w A war has been sworn out for Anderson him assault and tery with intent to HAS MADE A SUCCESS WITH THE BUSY LITTLE Now Has Hundreds of Hives Filled With Busy Colonies and tlie Culture of DANCE WELL The peoples hall was thronged with a Jolly crowd last night on the occasion of the dance given under the auspices of the striking Balti more and Ohio machin helpers and apprentices of this and the committee in charge has ample cause to it self upon the success of the With Sheriff who is a part master of the the merry dancers enjoyed themselves until darning to the en trancing music bv te Scoble orches The size of the crowd far ex expectations and it was so large in fact that the floor was crowded for each the crowd riot even thinning out by Many visitors Quite a neat little sum will be real by the who feel grateful over the of the dance and the encouragement given them by the general SEEKING A representative of a fire insur ance company was here collecting data regarding the fire fighting equipment of the the water pres sure and the The information will be compiled in book form and used by fire insurance companies for ESSAYIST FROM The state board of a few i months ago announced that ir would award four prizes of each for the i best written by school pupils on Forestry in Nearly one I hundred essays were received from al over the state and tne prizes have been awarded as follows Olive senior sophomore David eighth Myrtle Union sev The prize essays will be published in the annual re port of the HAVE AT The ladies aid society or the First Christian church is an all day quilting at the church The members ate their dinners In the and several ol the hus bands were invited THREE June Smiths were arrested by Sheriff Wihle on charges of wife None of the Smiths is James aged of New and George aged of are in la dafault of and Leonard of gave bond for STATE NEWS IN Kokomo For winning first place in the 440yird n Em erson Applegate of this has re a handsome silver cup aa Kokomo The Daughters of the American Revolution have presented the city with a large and handsome flag which is to be at the city Kokomo So many of rabies have been found in Clay township that the indemnity required by law to be paid owners of stock which is killed has exhausted the dog Franklin Since the consolidation of the schools in Wbite River this the old school houses have become useless and three of them have been sold by the trus tee for Merom This is commencement week at Union Christian the exercises closing Wednesday This week notes the anni of the college and the attend ance is the largest in its Kokomo The yiell ol wheat Howard county his season will be notably There are many fields which will not yield more than five bushels to the The ravages of the ly and damage of cut worms is seen in numerous Newcastle Charging that he was bitten by a vicious dog owned by Al vis William Wilson has tiled suit in the circuit court demanding damages in thj sum Both are farmers living in the northeastern part of the Columbus A jury of business men failed to agree in the case against Ary charged with run ning a blind The twelve men stood seven to five for conviction af ter being out all The evidence in this case was furnished by two special Newcastle It is announced that Charles is to be the agent in this city for New castle Toledo Traction Pier son is at present assistant agent for the Terre Indianapolis Eastern Traction Hazelton While automobile rid ing Joe a livery was seriously West was try ing the auto preparatory to buying it and had started up the grade at the railroad Neither he nor the driver saw an approaching train until it was almost The driver turned the wheels straight around and the sudden stop threw West out of the Marion Simon aged a farmer in Washington was killed this afternoon when he was struck by lightning while at work in the His wife witnessed his Petersburg James Kinman of this carrier on rural mail route and recently nominated by the re publicans for county was requested by the postal department BALL IS That of all ball be no Ionizer in the streets of Washington Stirred by complaints of Chief of Poli c has thai lie will havo ne the playing of ball in the streets en hi response o a the chief made two trips to the west Wednesday ro arrest a crowd of young boys who are in the habit of congregating one block and in in the but he was no fortunate enough to be hand ai a time when the wer enlaced in the sport One of the property owners in the square has complained to the police several the of the boys playing ir the street and the chief will learn their names ami prosecute them if they persist in playing after he has given As a result rf the recklessness of the boys playing the in the streets window lights frequently are broken and this to be the chief cause of the sentiment o citizens against allowing the game to be played in the I am not joking when I say the next boy found playing ball or even playing catch in the streets will be said the chief of In addition to damaging property the boys aften in their and ex of the ly and it happens that a citizen is hit by a thrown ball Complaints are coin inn with considerable fre and have decide I there is but one way to stop the practic This is to arrest the violator found and have ted my men to do j DUVS WIN A June saloon keepers of Cambridge City surren dered to the temperance forces of Jackson township the re monstrance filed by the against the traffic being declared effective by the board of commissioners of Wayne When the matter was con ten lays no he men asked time to the va of certain signatures on the remonstrance and the hearing was set for yesterday The sa loon men j their le it he known that they had no further contest to There are four saloons in thv town One goes out of business im as the license has ex the remaining saloons continu ing until the licenses expire in Feb Of the In Wayne county all are now dry save Richmond and Wayne which have fiftyseven It may not be known to a number of the people of Daviess county that one of the largest bee farms in Indiana is operated of the Clarence son of owns and operates thf I farm He has studied the bee indus try and lias added to hit colonies until now he has workin one hundred colonies or So far thiMason the bees have not been to ore any amount of The cool weather has that yield nectar from and the healthy and a little warm weather will to do It i ones time to visit this farm The hives arc arranged in rows with streets on a lit tle knoll of blue and The yrass is kept trimmed and tht are painted Al tiis time the brood is busy Young goet annuls no fear of the He i a fries a small i ni which he bees should they con clude to be ome He im bees from Georgia and has made a careful of the habits f this arbitrary mistress ol the hive In one hive he the youni hee over half grown all hati bed from the eggs of a single queen lee There was at least a gal lon of little At this sea snn of the drones are per mitted to live and eat from the of the working for it is the I drones that help in the propagation the coming Iate in the fall all the drones are mercilessly put to death The mannei or execution dif fers at By careful watching i one may see a drone set upon by a score of his fellows stung to He has one satisfaction as he passes in his checks and that is that all that took part in his execu lion quickly follow as a bee dies soon after depositing his At other times several able bees will waltz Drone out on the front porch of the hive and there deliber ately clip his leaving less to seek He dies of star being a natural All I these peculiarly Interesting Woolbright has learned He sel dom if ever loses a hive by not being able to tell just what they are going 1 to A good season makes tho industry season with seventy was taken off and sold that netted the young man good wages When the bees begin to store honey in the cells of the comb supers are added to the Last year one hive filld seven As each super better than twentyfour pounds f honey It wil be seen that It to fill all the The secret cf success in bee raising ito a class of hard workers and then irve tire industry close atten tion Mr pride in how visitors his His farm is almost cast of GO TO The Petersburg and loca chapters of he Daughters of the American Revolution are holding a joint cele bration of Flas day at to About fifteen of the members who belong to tho White chap j ter of this city went to Petersburg making he trip In au After a program a tion wil be iriven In compliment to the local FARM HANDS are being run iii the daily newspapers now for farm Harvest is on and other farm work has caused the demand for ex tra There is no need of there being an idle man in town for the rest of the summer if they really want to Of course there are some who wouldnt work If they could get the but these we have with us They are fixtures with June by a rabid dog eight years Hiram aned a citizen of is At the time i was bitten his did not j think he would but he recovered although from the poison Injected into his sys tem by the dogs and was often In Blood poisoning finally de and caused his He Is survive by a NOT STAND June youn rooster belonging to Earl committed suicide Wednesday morn f It jumped up and caught its head between two strangling to It is said that the bird woke up Wednesday morning to find the sun had risen before he gave the His succeeding loss of pres tige in the barnyard was too muck to and he ended It all
