Washington Gazette (Newspaper) - June 26, 1914, Washington, Indiana U NUMBER 13 JUNE EDITION AND THARP IS in BE THE HEARING BEFORE COMMISSIONER CLARK SATURDAY of Money Behind the to Evi of Congressman Cullop recommended James Ken for postmaster at Mont to succeed Law Other recommendations for the dis are Lev Drake Oscar Bricker llam nesses In order that the commission might be Introducing the Carl connected with Cash operating two Competition in telephone business would be a good be cause present rates would be main received a 0 proprietor of INDIANA PUBLIC COM PLACES ON TELEPHONE Tan Be I at Will of Says President Clint re turned this morning from Sul where he been for nearly a week a law suli In which a citizen of Vincen 4 j fnr asked a Judgment for from thi railway for damages that Gardner in reunited from a fall at the companys station at Tharp repre sented the railroad The case was hotly and resulted In a verdict for the plaintiff fur which Is a sum considerably less than the company offered to compromise the 4 Monday afternoon Webb to la bond Hvatt new system Minted by the Think Hint all Promoters hail system patrons of Want I the second Stockholder in The hearing before Clark of the Indiana Public Utilities work for commission In this city to a close in time for on its notes and the commissioner and his assistants leave for Indianapolis on the af Claude saloon Fa vors coming of new Be lieve with two companies would set i etter more employ Believe Southwestern bring people here ThP the hearing was to t a determine the Pike County raniel ibone company holdings were of such system employed now by value as to warrant he issuing of eome worth of Improvement bonds In order to complete the work Humphrey In favor of second Pike com toam at hires in this city looking to tho of an exchange and the now Second for the operation of a telephone sys The mass of tho testimony of was along the line of seeking such information upon which to base an opinion If the sec would be Webb Offers general manager of the Pike county was the to offer ttlO will compel better service at cheaper Hugh city civil engin Favors two B other of but was from n his holdings In Pike Surveyed fer jew Asked by court 10 study the holdings of the company and re port said feet of total under linea yards of space did not know number of poles erected but estimated this a system appears to be well con but Is not laid in concrete Trunk line to fourteen miles v real Favorec dence bearing upon the physical placed of the companys ground work on about He gave it as his opinion that the county holdings of company were worth with an income of a When the Washington exchange was con the total figure was placed at He caid the wealth of stockholders of the was two million of people and that the company proj Increase In to sell the worth of at bearing six per These Improvement bonds are to he secured by mortgages on all proper The Indiana public utilities Roon ns the of mission has placed its room i certain the request of the like County plugs In sets of ephone company In which a nnd thege 8re of Hood sue of was n door space of twentyfour of this amount available at arc so that It the remaining to be 1 take a different degree of tem at the discretion of the in the sections to bad a nto water in the ALONG THE RANKS OK RIVER WHITE IK KNOX TO BRIDGE NEEDS REPAIR ami Next water conversation with For The al who Is in at the same Incidental with the commission as thos In the President Spencer would be a coi formed The Herald that the issue had jof Tin nnd granted as asked for so fav top the en Ine rooms and amount but that are all to a different de commission stipulated the manner of of I nd will only go Spencer said that operation when the unnatural of the bond i the mercu y to the point ooo would be available to the company al once and that this money would used in meeting the outstanding ob ligations of the company as on the sprinkler Work Will Taking it In all there will be due as well as extending throughout the building in Before but this does not Clark last Saturday General of nre ni Bay Webb that the outstanding i ho that all of obligations of the at would no Into op time was some represen rj or the by noies in banks near The or or where the Spencer said that would perform obligations would be cared for blaze reached another sec The General Fire ing company of has the contract for Installing the system and It is proposed to rush work as the company has at this time little or no fire two systems would be foi serve as check on John real estate anf provided the issue Is grantcity Believe second SVF Stork Not All Webb said his company was Incorporated for wbich of feeing has been Ol the common but of this has been subscribed He said that such a rule existed company as would permit the taking up of the preferred stock end of a Webb further said that the Pike owed at this time about for which notes are t of these notes In In W In Evansville and In In answer to a question by Judge Webb Raid these notes were floated ago and authority was asked of the public service com salesman for the Chicago vras introduced to corro statement of Webb as tern would be a good thing of based on con duct of Bell company here years Good service trou ble repaired Tells of Sale of Beck No opposed to second If ncv company had phones become subscriber in order to reacl w Doubtful as to th mand for second All coun service free except old three notes of for Pike about a year Charles Want company so as to keep rate Not on any Pike compan street commission No to second corn any believe it uptodate and fu to present No on to second set of poles along the fast as they fell due and money was needed to care for tlu plant extension during this tin would also come from Later according to the com under the ruling of the eon would toe permitted to mother bond sale of which the total amount prayed for ly the Work Is The work on the new system is progressing Poles are ing set in the residence sections to and he said he had cold the Pike company a o amounting to and thai tbe articles were worth the Good at Judge Clark opened the hearing at 9 oclock and at tha the room was well filled with witnesses and Padgett and Miles ONeall at this and Arnol X Padgett of looked afte the the Pike County Tele while A1 Ie Faith an ft were In bf certain tax n 3BelI Th as th company ha ables are being arts of the swung in various s being directed to the east end of where considerable work is at his time Much of the for the exchange office has received in the city and th in will be taken up at It Is said that if switch board were n position that connections e made throughout the business section and the residence section east south of Meridian A large force of men Is being used nnd It Is said that now additional workmen will be used to complete the work and put thi Into operation as soon as pos MODERN VOTE FOR INDIANAPOLIS RATK The Insurance rate was substituted for the Chicago rale In the of the Modern Wood men of American by the triennial con vention of the In session at The Chicago which Is higher than was the cause of much The Insurgents of the convention lost In their fight to have the salaries of the head officers Their proposal to decrease the officers pay about onehalf was defeated by j vote of 300 to 120V4 Notice Has Been Served Thing Will Be the Butting Against a The friendly relation that has ex isted between Vincennes and Wash ington since away back there in day Mf transferring the shops from the Old Post town to Is about to receive a severe Jolt an its Just possible that the native of will never again slide on cur If the commissioner of county continue along the path they have The trouble has been brewing for something like a In fact tho rumpus was started about the time one John Hartigan was elevated to the exalted post of commissioner of Knox county by the voters of that The White river bridge north west of the city Is the and since the and who use the thor are demanding that repair be made on the bridge the Commissioners have come to the con that something must be done and The floor of the bridge is in a dangerous condi several large holes appear here and there and it Is said that the tim ber is now cuch a decree that the heavy motor cars crush It as they travel Horses in a couple of known been n Jured and the bridge has been con Knox County as The repair plan was taken UP year but Knox county commissioner The commissioner then proceeded with the lawful notice that the local boar I was ready and willing to share Us part of the repair ac cording to local construction of the the only thing left to be done is for the commissioners to make tho necessary the contract proceed with tnc work and then If Knox county re fuses to pay its share of the August In Javor uf system opposition a good answer to court witness were five tailors In city pense bring a In aid there ut the coming of flve more John real Favor of system Bell company doef ot do what tt agrees said it would cut fourparty but did not do Worked for that company William Ice cream manu In favor of second system as It appears to be better system no serious objection to service at this time going to telephone office to pay John estate and coun in council when franchise was second system no Interest in WVe company son and daughter employed by it Member of New Samuel Eskridge Neat ft faror of second company for rations HINCHER PLANT The first car load of material for the installation of the gigantic au sprinkler system which Is to protect the companys establishment from fire has been and within a few days the actual work of con struction will be well under The new system of fire prevention new in this al though it is no stranger to the mod ern day buildings of the large cen ters of population and Is of such ca as flood the building In case such a demand should The stand or tanklike Is to rise on the elevation Just north of the bulk one hundred and ten and will of such size as taie care cf gallons of From this tank mains are taken to the building and then leads carry tie water like network to each nook and corner ROOM GET NOTHING For the second time within a pe of three robbers made an attempt to pilfer the Kennedy Ragsdale lunch room early Sunday was gained at the rear door of the building but an investigation reveals nothing missing from the The attempted robbery was discovered Sunday worn Ing when the lunch room was opened for suit for Acting with this thought In Sanse and Meade Gravel Road Superintendent ner and Engineer Madden made trip to the bridge and It Is that the legal preliminaries will li cleared away at INFANT OF DIES Elizabeth the daughter ot rUed Sunday night after a lew days III What the Law The commissioners pro Funeral services will be held a oclock Tuesday afternoon from the and burial will follow In Oak Grove TO CIRCUIT COURT a Washington young Wat found guilty ot assault and battery with Intent to murder Alfred a street car pose to under act of tho legislature of pertaining to bridges on county and follow ing Is that part of tho section which Is said to fit the local ease In case of the refusal of any coun as to join In the con repair or purchase of the county desiring such 1m may repair 01 purchase such bridge as hereinbefore and when the cost of bridge or repairs does not the making such im provement by the repair o purchase of such bridge shall be en titled to recover from each of sue adjoining counties affected by sue Improvement the amount county should have bad it Join In such such claim 1 b3 enforced as other claims are en forced against counties In this stve and when inch claim Is litigated in judgment a fee for the plaintiffs a Why It is said that Commissioner Ha Pi of tor the trf company the b Automatic ia Its The system Into operation in an automatic Thai it should B ere break In any department ot the the nearest ping will forth totter In a by Mayor McCarty at hit preliminary bearing in the city court Monday aft was bound over to th circuit court In of Peterson wha waa with acquitted on f barge but be pleaded guilty to an other Intoxication and re a fine of and Neal to Nave thrown bottle at Shephard Matt Alvin Hugh Ed McCaf ferty and Charley prominent members of the lo cal lodge of left Tuesday afternoon in Kellys car for West Baden and French Uck on an expedition to procure new members for the Wash ington lodge of the The party went from to Trinity Springs for and finished the trip to Valley last A sria residents of West Ha den nnd French have In a desire to join tli Elks lodge OK PRISON or Washington Same SelfPossession That Al ways Characterized placing the new Poor j ut a nominal amount as Ibo Dr v Wolfo the oad repair force could anil would do who was de e thereby dispensing with t Of conspiracy to commit of an contractor defraud an Insurance nd the It Is also said tbat and given artigan agrees to open u the sentence In Indiana urse strings if the farmen dv displayed unusual ated toward building bridge s he of Sheriff George over their If returned Saturday from Michigan City where he took the convicted As a the prison walls prove adequate to ui nervo the but they had no anV apparent effect on H now In a pleasant manner with tho officers after being taken Into tb prison office and the same amount of that e work refusal mot up Ulp long and te null will In proper time of the case In the he bridge is in an din erous condition and the only According to Sheriff the or of It all that aome r i veterinary surgeon maintained the int has not happened before thl 8tolld countenance that char Is probable that a notice will ie him since his all dur within a day or so Informing lng lnc trip to the Ho gave e passersby that the structure sheriff no trouble and Joked and a bad thereby officer the same as ne of responsibility In event of he were taking a pleasure trip and 111 now turn cck It In the Will Repair He Brills From the remarks of there Is n bit the bridge will at The cleared for action and ter may Te made Knox lr IS FOR MAN TOWN ihe was not In Wolfes Injunction to Sheriff was to give the boys regards and tell them that he expected to George the is i make an ideal prison n war path and If the fellow sheriff Harman left the prison a rig at the after delivering his prisoner a drive to Veales Is wle and docs not know which department will According to Wolfe was assigned or what bin att a young man the bai prisoner number He gave no In afternoon and asked for a of breaking down nnd maln to drive to the countryside selfpossession until I left hen asked how long it would said make the said an hour cr awaited his return up PLAINVILLE MEN AND midnight and then made his j AUTOMOBILE TAKE TUMBLE believing that the rig hail One of the mort remarkable near een About J oclock o accident stories since the coming of the horse automobile Into Into the stable giving every Is heard from the vidence of having been driven and that the occupants of reported the matter tho car are alive to tell the story o the police and arrests may j traceable to no other cause than the smile of RAILROAD MEN Henry his two A slight reduction In the Frank were driving out umber of surplus cars Is wen of Thursday after the surplus is still larger noon and when the ban for any corresponding date since j bridge over Smothers the car 909 According to the statement was spinning along at pretty lively f the American Railway j The approach to the bridge i he surplus on June 13 was made on a short curve and Instead 94 cars On June 1 it making this curve kept 4 57On June It ahead with the result thit On June car went over an embankment cf June It was 1GV and on June It wai The principal reduction of about ten feet into the And in this transaction thi car took and it turning completely But tho was noted In the Central Freight thing of the whole affair includes that the four remained in their which There were smaller reductions n the central part of the rn district and In Nebraska end The surplus continues In what Is known as the trunk line The total car shortage In the coun try on June 15 was CuO a negligible On Juno It was 770 On June U 199 June June 764 19HV Railroad men that they see the promise of Vtter in and neither received a of the of Idle IIR IS GETTING From the Miami published at Ohio Curtis Holder of the Allen Wheeler company left for his old borne In Wash where he will his vaca returning to Troy In about ten Holder It a loyal tonian and opinion there is no other either city or which can compare with the Hoosier If that city appreciates forceful advertising objects to the expenditure the Knox county Ux for th repair because some few the Knox county fanners assisted the construction of the bridge by and that thereby the county hai no right to repair the j Bat tothe face of thU Knox an Thenumber ally large and the eduction In lasl was smalt but they to Here that business can not continue me dull as at present much longer aud that this report shows the Hut faint ing of the pendulum I S eat er It will give him a rousing TONSILS Arthur submitted to au operation Monday for the removal of her Rang PCT tod Joined the tt to bad ejected Meal from the repairs the expenses and Palmer of Terre Haate bare bought the Cor ner diag store at Odon from formed the insisted by William of east Van street was taken to the ers at for treatment An explanatory In revealed that he la suffering from an of the i
